Polling on 64 Lok Sabha seats today

May 07, 2014

Polling on 64 Lok Sabha seats today


Ahmedabad, 7 May, 2014

More than 95 million voters will have their say across seven states and decide the electoral fortunes of 897 candidates in the fray today.

Of these 64 seats, the Congress had won 34 in 2009; the Bahujan Samaj Party 5; the Bharatiya Janata Party, CPI(M), Janata Dal (United) and the Telugu Desam Party 4 each; and the Samajwadi Party 3.

In Seemandhra, polling will be held for 25 seats. The assembly polls are being held simultaneously and votes will be cast for 175 constituencies.

After Andhra Pradesh, the next biggest chunk of Lok Sabha seats up for grabs is in eastern Uttar Pradesh (15).

In Bihar, voting will be held in 7 seats.

In West Bengal, actor Moon Moon Sen, playback singer Babul Supriyo are in the fray. Sen, a Trinamool Congress candidate, is up against CPM’s Basudeb Acharia, a nine-time MP, in Bankura.

Voting in Uttarakhand (5 seats) and Himachal Pradesh (4 seats) will end in one go.

Polling will also end in Jammu and Kashmir with voting in Baramulla and Ladakh.

This phase will mark the completion of more than 92% of voting in the Indian elections, which will enter the home stretch leading up to the final phase of polling on May 12 in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal.

After this phase, polling for 502 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats will be completed.


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