21.   Winning either the parliamentary or the state assembly seat could be the signal Mahathir needs to call elections.

22.   Indian Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda was ridiculed Thursday for leading his party to a humiliating rout in a by-election for a state assembly seat he vacated.

23.   Voters will also be casting ballots for Lok Sabha and state assembly seats in Kerala, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Punjab and Rajasthan.

24.   Voters will also be casting ballots for Lok Sabha and state assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Punjab and Rajasthan.

25.   Khan campaigned on a clean government ticket but struggled to get a single national assembly seat.

26.   Ninety-six assembly seats were decided in the first round of balloting Monday marred by violence that left one person dead and eight injured.

27.   Ninety-six assembly seats were decided in the first round of balloting Monday marred by violence that left one person dead and eight people injured.

28.   The BJP won only one state assembly seat.

29.   The Congress was ahead of its rivals in five other assembly seats.

30.   The lawmaker, Lee Kyung-Jae, is in the race for an assembly seat and Ban, as a district official is barred from campaigning.