The Maharashtra Assembly elections will be held on November 20 and the counting will be held three days later, the Election Commission of India stated on Tuesday, October 15. The poll body also informed that Jharkhand will vote in two phases: November 13 and 20 and the verdict for the state assembly will be declared along with Maharashtra.

During the press briefing, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar also said that electronic voting machines (EVM) cannot be tampered with or hacked like pagers. "People have asked if pagers can explode, why can`t EVMs be hacked. We want to clarify that pagers are connected [to an electronic device] while EVMs are not. The first-level checking of EVMs is done five-six months before the polls," Kumar said, adding that ECI has received 20 complaints about the machine and that the poll body will be responding on each of it "fact-by-fact".