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Lok Sabha elections 2024: Key seats, candidates and date; all you need to know about phase 7

The voting for phase seven will begin at 7 AM and conclude at 6 in the evening.

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Lok Sabha elections 2024: Key seats, candidates and date; all you need to know about phase 7
Over a month after India started voting for the mega Lok Sabha elections 2024, the last 57 constituencies will go to polls in the seventh phase on June 1. The votes will be counted for 543 Lok Sabha seats on June 4.



In the seventh and last phase, 13 seats each in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, nine in West Bengal, eight in Bihar, six in Odisha, all four in Himachal Pradesh, three in Jharkhand, and one in Chandigarh will go to polls.

The voting for phase seven will begin at 7 am and conclude at 6 in the evening.

In these 57 Lok Sabha seats, 904 individuals are running for office. The highly awaited elections in the constituencies of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh; Shimla, Himachal Pradesh; Chandigarh; and Kolkata, West Bengal, will also occur in the seventh phase.

Full list of constituencies:
State/UTConstituencies
BiharPatna Sahib, Arrah, Pataliputra, Buxar, Nalanda, Karakat, Sasaram, and Jahanabad.
Himachal PradeshKangra, Hamirpur, Mandi, and Shimla.
Uttar PradeshVaranasi, Gorakhpur, Mahrajganj, Kushinagar, Bansgaon, Deoria, Ghosi, Ballia, Salempur, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Robertsganj, and Mirzapur.
PunjabGurdaspur, Khadoor Sahib, Amritsar, Jalandhar (SC), Anandpur Sahib, Hoshiarpur (SC), Ludhiana, Faridkot (SC), Firozpur, Fatehgarh Sahib (SC), Bathinda, Sangrur, and Patiala.
OdishaMayurbhanj, Bhadrak, Balasore, Jagatsinhpur, Jajpur, and Kendrapara.
West BengalDum Dum, Basirhat, Barasat, Jayanagar, Diamond Harbour, Mathurapur, Jadavpur, Kolkata Uttar, and Kolkata Dakshin.
JharkhandGodda, Rajmahal, and Dumka.
ChandigarhChandigarh.

Key candidates from Uttar Pradesh:
ConstituenciesKey Candidates
VaranasiNarendra Modi (BJP), Ajay Rai (Congress)
GorakhpurRavi Kishan (BJP), Kajal Nishad (SP)
GhazipurAfzal Ansari (SP), Paras Nath Rai (BJP)
MirzapurAnupriya Patel (ADS)
ChandauliMahendra Nath Pandey (BJP)

Key candidates from Bihar:
ConstituenciesKey Candidates
Patna SahibRavi Shankar Prasad (BJP)
PataliputraMisa Bharti (RJD), Ram Kripal Yadav (BJP)

Key candidates from Himachal Pradesh:
ConstituenciesKey Candidates
KangraAnand Sharma (Congress)
MandiKangana Ranaut (BJP), Vikramaditya Singh (Congress)
HamirpurAnurag Thakur (BJP)

Key candidates from Punjab:
ConstituenciesKey Candidates
AmritsarTaranjit Singh Sandhu (BJP)
Jalandhar (SC)Sushil Kumar Rinku (BJP), Charanjit Singh Channi (Congress)
LudhianaRavneet Singh Bittu (BJP), Amarinder Singh Raja Warring (Congress)
BathindaGurmeet Singh Khudian (AAP), Harsimrat Kaur Badal (SAD)
PatialaPreneet Kaur (BJP), Balbir Singh (AAP), Dharamvir Gandhi (Congress)

Key candidates from West Bengal:
ConstituenciesKey Candidates
Diamond HarbourAbhishek Banerjee (TMC)
Kolkata UttarTapas Roy (BJP), Sudip Bandyopadhyay (TMC)
BarasatKakoli Ghosh Dastidar (TMC), Swapan Majumder (BJP)
BasirhatRekha Patra (BJP), Haji Nurul Islam (TMC)

Key candidates from Jharkhand:
ConstituenciesKey Candidates
DumkaSita Soren (BJP), Nalin Soren (JMM)
GoddaNishikant Dubey (BJP)

Key candidates from Chandigarh:
ConstituenciesKey Candidates
ChandigarhManish Tewari (Congress), Sanjay Tandon (BJP)

Voter turnout so far:

  1. In the first phase of Lok Sabha polls, a voter participation of 66.14% in 102 seats was registered.
    2. It was 66.71% in the second phase, which included 88 constituencies.
    3. the figure was 65.68% over 94 constituencies in phase three.
    4. As many as 69.16% of voters participated in the fourth phase across 96 seats.
    5. The fifth phase saw a 62.2% turnout in 49 seats.
    6. The sixth phase saw a voter participation of 61.98% in 57 seats.