Lok Sabha Elections 2019: India is all set to face 17th Lok Sabha Election which is scheduled to begin from next month. The stakes are high for political parties and leaders as over 850 million voters who would exercise their franchise to decide the fate of the country for the next five years. The Election Commission of India has announced the poll dates for impending elections and has decided to hold Assembly polls in some states simultaneously with Lok Sabha Elections.

Elections for Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Odisha Assemblies will be held along with the Lok Sabha polls, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora announced on Sunday.

In Andhra Pradesh, elections to the 175 Assembly seats and the 25 Lok Sabha seats, which will see a single-phase election, will be held on April 11, 2019. Results to the Assembly and Lok Sabha Elections will be announced on May 23, 2019, with the counting of votes taking place on the same day.

In the past, the state has witnessed bipolar politics as there has been neck-to-neck fight between the Congress and N Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party.

Here’s all you need to know about Andra Pradesh ahead of the Lok Sabha polls-


Parliamentary Constituencies: 25

Number of voters: Around 3 crore

Voter turnout in 2014: 78.7%

2014 poll results: Party wise summary in Kerala-

NDA

• Telugu Desam contested on 30 seats in 2014 out and won 16
• Bharatiya Janta Party contested on 12 seats, won 3

UPA

• Indian National Congress in 2014 contested on 37 seats and won 2 seats
• Communist Party Of India contested on 1 seats but it lost

Key leaders: N Chandrababu Naidu (TDP), Jaganmohan Reddy (YRSC), Pawan Kalyan (Jana Sena)