Counting of votes for all seats will be held on October 24.
Voting for the Maharashtra and Haryana state elections will be held on Monday along with bypolls to over 50 assembly and two Lok Sabha seats.
Both the states are ruled by the BJP.
The campaigning for assembly elections in both states came to an end on Saturday. While 288 assembly constituencies in Maharashtra will go to polls, polling will also be held for 90 seats in Haryana.
Counting of votes for all seats will be held on October 24.
In Maharashtra, the BJP is contesting the state polls in an alliance - Mahayuti - with Shiv Sena and some other smaller allies. The BJP has fielded candidates on 150 seats, Sena is contesting 124 seats while 14 seats have gone to smaller allies including RPI-A.
As for Shiv Sena, this is the first time that a member of the Thackeray family is contesting an election. Yuva Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray, son of Uddhav Thackeray, is contesting from Worli assembly constituency in Mumbai.
The ruling alliance's main adversary is "maha-aghadi", led by the Congress and the NCP. The Congress has fielded 147 candidates and the ally Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) 121.
Total voters in Maharashtra are 8,98,39,600 - 4,28,43,635 women and 4,68,75,750 men - who are eligible to cast their votes on October 21 to elect 288 new members of the new assembly. There are a total of 3237 candidates, including 235 women, in the fray.
The Election Commission has deployed 6.5 lakh polling staff for the election which will be held across 96,661 polling booths. A total of 1,35,021 VVPAT machines will be used in the election across 288 assembly constituency.
In 2014 elections which the BJP and Shiv Sena contested separately, the two parties won 122 and 63 seats, respectively. The Congress and the NCP - who fought the election together - won 42 and 41 seats, respectively.
In Haryana, the ruling BJP is facing a strong challenge by opposition Congress, led by former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and state chief Kumari Selja; newly formed Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), led by Dushyant Chautala and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), led by Abhay Singh Chautala.
Opposition parties witnessed mass exodus ahead of the elections. Former Congress chief Ashok Tanwar quit the party and announced his support to the JJP and even campaigning for Dushyant Chautala-led outfit.
There are over 1.83 crore voters of which 83 lakh are women. The Election Commission of India has set up 19,578 polling stations, 13,837 of which are in rural areas. There 1,169 candidates, including 105 women, in the fray for 90 assembly seats.
Heavy security force has been deployed in the assembly election. Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Navdeep Singh Virk said 130 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) have been deployed besides neatly 27,000 state police personnel.
26,896 state police personnel, 22,806 home guards, 7,936 special police officers and 6,001 police trainees are on poll duty, he said.
In the last polls held in 2014, the BJP had won 47 seats and added one more seat after winning Jind bypoll earlier this year. The INLD had won 19 seats in the assembly while the Congress had 15 legislators.
Besides assembly polls in two states, bypolls to 51 assembly seats and two Lok Sabha constituencies - spread across 18 states - will also be held.
The maximum 11 seats are in Uttar Pradesh, followed by six in Gujarat, five in Bihar, four in Assam and two each in Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
Bypolls are also being held in Punjab (4 seats), Kerala (5 seats), Sikkim (3 seats), Rajasthan (two seats) and one seat each in Arunachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Puducherry, Meghalaya and Telangana.
Bypolls to two Lok Sabha seats - Satara in Maharashtra and Samastipur in Bihar held by NCP and LJP respectively - are also being held.
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