Record numbers of early voters missed out on important election day sausage sizzles and interactions with candidates, lawyers for a candidate disputing the validity of Victorian election result have argued in court.

Palmer United Party (PUP) candidate Maria Rigoni has taken the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) to the Supreme Court, arguing that the number of early votes allowed before the 2014 election rendered the results invalid.

Ms Rigoni failed to win an Upper House seat at last November's state poll.

More than a million people voted before the November 29 election day, amounting to more than 31 per cent of all voters.

Ms Rigoni's lawyer Dr Anton Trichardt argued it was important for voters to "see the sausage sizzle" and "listen and engage" with candidates on election day for the results toSirmour Zila Parishad chairperson Pyari was an aspirant of the BJP ticket but when the party fielded former Zila Parishad member Reena Kashyap, she decided to contest as an independent candidate.

Musafir (74) has been contesting assembly elections from the Pachhad seat since 1982. He has won seven times and lost twice.

He was elected as an Independent in 1982 and subsequently won on a Congress ticket in 1985, 1990, 1993, 1998, 2003 and 2007. He lost in 2012 and 2017.

By-elections to Pachhad and Dharamshala Assembly seats were necessitated after sitting BJP MLAs Suresh Kashyap and Kishan Kapoor, respectively, were elected to the Lok Sabha this May.

The bypolls to the two Assembly segments are considered a test for Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur as the ruling BJP looks to not