Lok Sabha Polls 2019: Phase 4 voting in 72 constituencies today; all you need to know

Lok Sabha Polls 2019: The fourth phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2019 will begin today (April 29) on as many as 72 parliamentary constituencies spread across 9 states.

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The fourth phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2019 will take place on April 29

Voting on all 72 constituencies will begin at 7 am

A total of 943 candidates are in fray for the fourth phase

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: The fourth phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2019 will begin today,  April 29, on as many as 72 parliamentary constituencies spread across 9 states. People of the country would exercise their franchise in some seats of Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Voting on all 72 constituencies will begin at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm at all polling booths. A total of 943 candidates are in fray for the fourth phase of General Elections. The Election Commission has set up 1.40 lakh polling booths/stations and has made elaborate security arrangements. In the first three phases, voting has been held in 302 Lok Sabha constituencies, and 168 more seats will go to polls in the last three phases.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Phase 4: Key Candidates

The fate of these candidates, including Union ministers Giriraj Singh, Babul Supriyo, Subhash Bhamre, SS Ahluwalia of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and former Union ministers Salman Khurshid and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of the Congress party, will be decided by around 12.79 core eligible voters in the fourth phase. Among other key contestants in the fray are Kanhaiya Kumar (CPI), Dimple Yadav (Samajwadi Party), Priya Dutt (Congress), Urmila Matondkar (Congress), Baijayant Panda (BJP), Satabdi Roy (TMC), Milind Deora (Congress) and Upendra Kushwaha (RLSP). Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's son, a member of erstwhile Jaipur royal family and two Union ministers are among 115 candidates whose fate will be decided on Monday. Jodhpur became one of the most talked about seats in the Congress-ruled state where Gehlot did massive campaigning for his son Vaibhav, pitted against sitting MP and Union minister of state Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Phase 4: Key Parties

The stakes are high for the ruling BJP and its allies as it had swept 56 of these seats in 2014, leaving just two for the Congress and the rest for other opposition parties such as the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) bagging six seats each.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Phase 4: Key States

Voting will take place in 17 seats in Maharashtra, 13 each in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, eight in West Bengal, six each in Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, five in Bihar, three in Jharkhand and a part of the Anantnag constituency in Jammu and Kashmir.

Maharashtra

Constituencies going to vote: 17 Total number of contesting candidates: 323 Total number of polling booths: 33,314 Total number of voters: 3,11,92,823 Total number of male voters: 1,66,31,707 Total number of female voters: 1,45,59,698 Number of voters of third gender: 1,418

Rajasthan

Constituencies going to vote: 13 Total number of contesting candidates: 115 Total number of polling booths: 28,182 Total number of voters: 2,57,76,993 Total number of male voters: 1,33,00,801 Total number of female voters: 1,24,76,052 Number of voters of third gender: 140

Uttar Pradesh

Constituencies going to vote: 13 Total number of contesting candidates: 152 Total number of polling booths: 27,513 Total number of voters: 2,38,88,367 Total number of male voters: 1,29,75,125 Total number of female voters: 1,09,12,012 Number of voters of third gender: 1230

West Bengal

Constituencies going to vote: 8 Total number of contesting candidates: 68 Total number of polling booths: 15,277 Total number of voters: 134,56,491 Total number of male voters: 69,06,199 Total number of female voters: 65,50,004 Number of voters of third gender: 288

Madhya Pradesh

Constituencies going to vote: 6 Total number of contesting candidates: 108 Total number of polling booths: 13,491 Total number of voters: 105,55,689 Total number of male voters: 53,99,760 Total number of female voters: 515,57,51 Number of voters of third gender: 178

Odisha

Constituencies going to vote: 6 Total number of contesting candidates: 52 Total number of polling booths: 10,792 Total number of voters: 95,14,883 Total number of male voters: 49,08,575 Total number of female voters: 46,05,694 Number of voters of third gender: 615

Bihar

Constituencies going to vote: 5 Total number of contesting candidates: 66 Total number of polling booths: 8,834 Total number of voters: 87,02,313 Total number of male voters: 4,63,5071 Total number of female voters: 40,67,009 Number of voters of third gender: 233

Jharkhand

Constituencies going to vote: 3 Total number of contesting candidates: 59 Total number of polling booths: 3,013 Total number of voters: 45,26,693 Total number of male voters: 23,85,932 Total number of female voters: 2,14,0750 Number of voters of third gender: 11

Jammu & Kashmir

Constituencies going to vote: 1 Total number of contesting candidates: 18 Total number of polling booths: 433 Total number of voters: 3,44,224 Total number of male voters: 1,79,607 Total number of female voters: 1,64,604 Number of voters of third gender: 13

All you need to know about states going for polls in Phase IV

Election in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, where the BJP had cornered all but two of the total 54 seats in 2014, will begin in this phase. The Congress appeared to make a comeback, forming the governments in the states after last year's Assembly polls. In Uttar Pradesh, most of these 13 seats are seeing a direct fight between the BJP and SP-BSP alliance with Kannauj being a matter of prestige for the SP. In 2014, the BJP won 12 of these 13 seats in the state. Only Kannauj, won by the Samajwadi Party, defied the Modi wave that year among them. Former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple is seeking re-election from Kannauj. The Congress has a good presence in at least three of the constituencies -- Unnao (Annu Tandon), Farrukhabad (Salman Khurshid) and Kanpur (Sriprakash Jaiswal). In West Bengal, all the eight seats, which are spread across four districts, will see a four-cornered contest between Trinamool Congress, BJP, Congress and the Left Front. In Odisha, where the state's ruling BJD won all six seats, the BJP is making concerted efforts to bag a few seats. Prominent among the hopefuls include BJP national vice-president Baijayant Panda (Kendrapara), who quit the BJD to join the party recently. Polling will also be held in 41 assembly seats in Odisha in this phase. In Bihar, the BJP and its allies are looking to retain all the five seats in the face of a spirited fight put up by the RJD-Congress alliance. The cynosure of all eyes in this phase, however, is the Begusarai seat which will witness an electrifying contest between the political Left and the Right with CPI debutant Kanhaiya Kumar taking on firebrand BJP leader Giriraj Singh. In all the six seats in Madhya Pradesh, a direct fight between the Congress and the BJP is on the cards. The state's new power centre is witnessing a unique father-son electoral show with Chief Minister Kamal Nath and his son Nakul in the fray, hoping to boost not just the Congress but also strike roots as deep as the tree from where this region takes its name. Polling will also be held in Kulgam district, which is part of Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency. Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency in Jammu and Kashmir is spread over four districts of Anantnag, Kulgam, Shopian and Pulwama with 16 assembly segments. The Lok Sabha polls to this constituency are being held in three phases due to security reasons. Election to 542 Lok Sabha seats is being conducted in seven phases between April 11 and May 19. Election in Vellore constituency in Tamil Nadu has been cancelled following excess use of money power. Results will be declared on May 23.

Published at : 28 Apr 2019 10:40 PM (IST)

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