Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: On Monday, 49 Lok Sabha seats across six states and two union territories are scheduled to go to polls in the fifth phase of the ongoing general elections. Celebrities like Rahul Gandhi (Rae Bareli), Rajnath Singh (Lucknow) and Smriti Irani (Amethi) have joined the fray in the fifth phase. Gandhi, a former Congress MP from Amethi, is also a candidate from Wayanad in Kerala, his current constituency which went to polls in the second phase (April 26). The BJP has fielded Uttar Pradesh minister Dinesh Pratap Singh against the former Congress president.
Irani, who defeated Gandhi in 2019, is running against KL Sharma, a supporter of the grand old party’s founding family. Lucknow MP Singh is being challenged by Samajwadi Party’s Ravidas Mehrotra.
The states voting in this round are Uttar Pradesh (14/80 seats), Maharashtra (13/48 seats), West Bengal (7/42 seats) and Bihar (5/40 seats). , Odisha (5/21 seats), Jharkhand (3/14). The union territories are Jammu and Kashmir (1/5) and Ladakh (1/1).
schedule:
Phase 1: April 19th
Phase 2: April 26th
Phase 3: May 7th
Phase 4: May 13th
Phase 5: May 20th
Phase 6: May 25th
Phase 7: June 1
Vote tally: June 4th
Follow all updates here.
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Ready for stage 5 voting
The fifth round of voting for the seventh parliamentary election will take place on Monday. With just 49 seats (spread across six states and two union territories), this is the smallest stage.
