Candidates  

Upendra explained Uttama Prajakeeya Party's political programmes and said that his party candidates will contest all 28 parliamentary seats in Karnataka.

With the general elections coming up in the next few months, it is critical to know as much as possible about the candidates in order to put in an informed vote. Along with policies, the personality, leadership style and track record of a national leader also matters

After collecting the money, the accused created fake appointment orders and dispatched it to candidates through a fake email id.

Yeddyurappa clarified that the BJP MLAs had gathered together to discuss strategy for the upcoming Lok Sabha election and that everything else was a rumour. He blamed that the chief minister had offered the BJP MLAs ministry and money.

The fact is the that in most of these constituencies, the TRS lost elections despite increasing its vote share considerably. However most candidates fielded in these constituencies were from other parties and had secured double digit vote shares in 2014 too.

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) fielded eight candidates in the December 7 polls to the 119-member house and supported the TRS, where the two describe themselves as friendly parties, in the remaining segments

Telangana’s caretaker chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) is currently leading from Gajwel. The fate of the candidates who contested in 119 constituencies will be decided today
 

It's 2018, political parties continue to remain reluctant to women candidates in Telangana elections

Top leaders of various prties including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UP CM Yogi Adityanath, AICC President Rahul Gandhi are expected to campaign for respective candidates in Telangana.

Raja Singh, who faces over 40 cases, mostly for "hate speeches", had defeated senior Congress leader and former minister M Mukesh Goud in the 2014 Assembly polls by an impressive margin of over 45,000 votes.

Congress, BJP and Mizo National Front are the three major parties pitted against each other to win the Mizoram battle. The Congress and the MNF have fielded 40 candidates each, while the BJP is contesting in 39 seats