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Lok Sabha elections 2024: Seats to date, all you need to know about third phase of voting
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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During the first two phases, a total voter turnout of 66.14% and 66.71% was recorded, the Election Commission said.
Elaborate arrangements have been put in place as India gears up for the third phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on Tuesday, May 7, covering 93 parliamentary constituencies spread across 11 states and Union Territories.
More than 1,300 candidates are in the fray in the third phase, including Union Home Minister Amit Shah (Gandhinagar), former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Vidisha), Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia (Guna), Union Minister Pralhad Joshi (Dharwad), ex-chief minister of Karnataka Basavaraj Bommai (Haveri), and AIUDF’s Badruddin Ajmal (Dhubri) among several others.
Earlier, 94 seats across 12 states and Union Territories were scheduled to vote in the third phase on May 7. However, BJP’s Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed from Gujarat’s Surat seat. Meanwhile, polling in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag-Rajouri constituency was deferred to May 25. Besides them, Betul in Madhya Pradesh, which was earlier supposed to vote during the second phase on April 26, will now conduct polling in the third phase.
Among the seats going to polls in the third phase are four in Assam, five in Bihar, seven in Chhattisgarh, two in Goa, 25 in Gujarat, 14 in Karnataka, nine in Madhya Pradesh, 11 in Maharashtra, 10 in Uttar Pradesh, four in West Bengal and two seats of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
| States and Union Territories | Lok Sabha constituencies |
| Assam | Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Barpeta, and Guwahati. |
| Chhattisgarh | Surguja, Raigarh, Janjgir-Champa, Korba, Bilaspur, Durg, and Raipur. |
| Bihar | Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Araria, Madhepura, and Khagaria. |
| Goa | North Goa, and South Goa. |
| Gujarat | Kachchh, Banaskantha, Patan, Mahesana, Sabarkantha, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad East, Ahmedabad West, Jamnagar, Surendranagar, Rajkot, Porbandar, Junagadh, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Anand, Kheda, Panchmahal, Dahod, Vadodara, Chhota Udaipur, Bharuch, Bardoli, Navsari, and Valsad. |
| West Bengal | Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin, Jangipur, Murshidabad. |
| Karnataka | Chikkodi, Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Gulbarga, Raichur, Bidar, Koppal, Bellary, Haveri, Dharwad, Uttara Kannada, Davangere, and Shimoga. |
| Madhya Pradesh | Bhind, Morena, Bhopal, Guna, Gwalior, Rajgarh, Sagar, Vidisha, and Betul. |
| Maharashtra | Baramati, Raigad, Osmanabad, Latur, Solapur, Madha, Sangli, Satara, Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg, Kolhapur, and Hatkanangle. |
| Uttar Pradesh | Sambhal, Hathras, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Budaun, Aonla, Bareilly. |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu. |
Voting for the first and second phases of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in India were conducted on April 19 and April 26, respectively. While the first phase recorded a total voter turnout of 66.14%, the second phase witnessed a voter turnout of 66.71%, according to the official data shared by the Election Commission.
After the third phase on May 7, voting for the fourth phase will be conducted on May 13, the fifth on May 20, the sixth on May 25 and the last phase on June 1. The counting of votes for all the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies across the country will be held on June 4.
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