Election Handbook suggests if there exists only one candidate contesting in any constituency, then that particular candidate should be announced to have been elected just after the last hour for the withdrawal of the candidature
The petitioner cited the election of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Surat candidate after the Congress candidate’s nomination was rejected and others withdrew.
Before other candidates also withdrew, clearing the field for BJP, nomination papers of both Congress candidate and its substitute were rejected for "discrepancies in verification of signatures of their proposers."