India will enter its seventh and last phase of polling on June 1 (Saturday). The first six phases of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 recorded voter turnouts of 66.14 per cent, 66.71 per cent, 65.68 per cent, 69.16 per cent, 62.2 per cent and 63.37 per cent respectively.
It’s the showdown and this phase will mark the culmination of Lok Sabha elections 2024.
The seventh phase of the elections will span eight states and Union Territories (UTs) and will cover 57 constituencies. The first phase covered 102 constituencies, the second covered 88, the third covered 94, the fourth covered 96, the fifth covered 49 and the sixth covered 58. The voting process will begin at 7 am and go on till 6 pm. The counting of votes will take place on June 4.
With just one day left for the first phase of elections, here’s a state-wise breakdown that will answer all your poll-related questions.
State-wise constituencies
Bihar
Number of seats: 40
Number of seats going to poll: 8
Key candidates in fray: Raj Kumar Singh from Arrah (BJP), Sudhakar Singh from Buxar (RJD), Chandeshwar Prasad from Jahanabad (JDU)
Key sitting MPs: Ashwini Kumar Choubey (BJP), Pashupati Kumar Paras (Lok Janashakti Party-Ram Vilas), Chirag Paswan (LJP)
Chandigarh
Number of seats: 1
Number of seats going to poll: 1
Key candidates in fray: Manish Tewari (Congress), Sanjay Tandon (BJP)
Key sitting MPs: Kirron Kher
Himachal Pradesh
Number of seats: 4
Number of seats going to poll: 4
Key candidates in fray: Kangana Ranaut from Mandi (BJP), Anurag Thakur from Hamirpur (BJP), Vikramaditya Singh from Mandi (Congress)
Key sitting MPs: Anurag Singh Thakur (BJP), Kishan Kapoor (BJP), Ram Swaroop Sharma (BJP)
Jharkhand
Number of seats: 14
Number of seats going to poll: 4
Key candidates in fray: Nalin Soren from Dumka (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha), Sita Murmu from Dumka (BJP), Nishikant Dubey from Godda (BJP)
Key sitting MPs: Pashupati Nath Singh (BJP), Nishikant Dubey (BJP), Geeta Kora (Congress)
Odisha
Number of seats: 21
Number of seats going to poll: 6
Key candidates in fray: Lekhasri Samantsinghar from Balasore (BJD), Ananta Prasad Sethi from Bhadrak (Congress)
Key sitting MPs: Chandra Sekhar Sahu (BJD), Pratap Chandra Sarangi (BJP), Mahesh Sahoo (BJD)
Punjab
Number of seats: 13
Number of seats going to poll: 13
Key candidates in fray: Taranjit Singh Sandhu from Amritsar (BJP), Malvinder Singh Kang from Anandpur Sahib (AAP), Harsimrat Kaur Badal from Bathinda (SAD), Charanjit Singh Channi from Jalandhar (Congress)
Key sitting MPs: Harsimrat Kaur Badal (SAD), Sukhbir Singh Badal (SAD), Sunny Deol (BJP)
Uttar Pradesh
Number of seats: 80
Number of seats going to poll: 13
Key candidates in fray: Narendra Modi from Varanasi (BJP), Ravi Kishan from Gorakhpur (BJP), Afzal Ansari from Ghazipur (SP)
Key sitting MPs: Hema Malini (BJP), Rajnath Singh (BJP), Narendra Modi (BJP)
West Bengal
Number of seats: 42
Number of seats going to poll: 9
Key candidates in fray: Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar from Barasat (TMC), Rekha Patra from Basirhat (BJP), Abhishek Banerjee from Diamond Harbour (TMC), Sujan Chakraborty from Dum Dum (CPI-M), Tapas Roy from Kolkata Uttar (BJP)
Key sitting MPs: Nisith Pramanik (BJP), John Barla (BJP), Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (Congress)
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