Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly polls: All you need to know

*Voting was conducted for the remaining 93 assembly constituencies on Thursday for the second phase of assembly polls in Gujarat.

*PM Narendra Modi casted his vote at booth number 115 in Sabarmati's Ranip locality. Patidar leader Hardik Patel, finance minister Arun Jaitley, BJP president Amit Shah, BJP leader LK Advani, former Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel, Congress state chief Bharatsinh Solanki and Deputy CM Nitin Patel were the others to register their votes in the second phase of the elections.

*In phase one, voting was conducted on Saturday for 89 seats and regisered a turnout of 68%.

*Last month, Himachal Pradesh concluded voting on November 9 and recorded its highest turnout at 74 percent.

*The results for both the state assemblies will be announced on December 18.

*After the conclusion of the second phase of voting by Wednesday evening, exit polls will start predicting the winners for both the state assemblies.

*In 2012, Indian National Congress party came to power in Himachal Pradesh when it won 36 of the 68 seats in the state assembly.

*In Gujarat, BJP has been in power for the last 22 years.

*The results of the Gujarat elections are expected to have a crucial impact on the upcoming assembly polls in 2018 and the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

*In 2018, fate of eight state assemblies will be put to ballot, including Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram.