Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Campaigning for the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections has stopped on Saturday (18th May). In the fifth phase, voting will be held on 49 seats in eight states and union territories on May 20 (Monday). The 49 seats in the states where voting is to be held on May 20 include 13 seats in Maharashtra, Bihar (5), Odisha (5), Uttar Pradesh (14), West Bengal (7), Jammu and Kashmir (1), Jharkhand ( 3) And one seat from Ladakh is included.
According to the Election Commission, 695 candidates are in the fray for the fifth phase of voting. Voting is to be held on many high profile seats in this phase. Voting will start at 7 am, which will continue till 6 pm. However, due to the queues at the polling stations, voters will get the facility to cast their votes even after the voting time is over.
The fate of these VIPs will be decided
In the fifth phase, many prominent personalities including Rahul Gandhi, Smriti Irani, Rohini Acharya, Rajnath Singh and Chirag Paswan are in the electoral fray. Rahul Gandhi is contesting from Rae Bareli seat. Union Minister Smriti Irani is contesting from Amethi seat. Apart from this, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh from Lucknow, Karan Bhushan Singh, son of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh from Kaiserganj, Rohini Acharya from Saran seat of Bihar, Chirag Paswan from Hajipur, Union Minister Piyush Goyal from Mumbai North and National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah from Baramulla Maidan. Is in. The leaders of NDA and INDIA Alliance had campaigned vigorously for 49 seats.
How much voting took place in the last four phases?
Lok Sabha Elections Voting has taken place so far for four phases. More than 60 percent voting has been recorded in the last four phases. In the first phase, 66.14 percent voting was recorded, in the second phase, 66.71 percent, in the third phase, 65.68 percent and in the fourth phase, about 69 percent voting was recorded.
Battle of the sixth phase after the fifth
Let us tell you that after the fifth phase of voting, voting will be left for only two phases. Voting is to be held for 57 seats in seven states in the sixth phase (May 25) and 57 seats in eight states are to be voted in the seventh phase (June 1), while the results will be declared on June 4.