Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 3: In the third phase of Lok Sabha elections, voting will start from 7 am tomorrow i.e. Tuesday for 93 seats in 11 states and union territories. In the third phase, apart from all the 25 seats of Gujarat, voting will be held for 10 seats of UP, 5 seats of Bihar, 7 seats of Chhattisgarh, 9 seats of Madhya Pradesh and 11 seats of Maharashtra. Apart from this, votes will also be cast for 14 seats in Karnataka, 4 seats each in Assam and West Bengal, 2 seats in Goa, one seat each in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. A total of 1,338 candidates are in the fray in the third phase.
Voting was to be held tomorrow for 94 seats in 12 states in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections, but votes will be cast only for 93 seats. Because BJP has already captured the Surat seat of Gujarat unopposed. BJP had made Mukesh Kumar Chandrakant Dalal the candidate on this seat. Voting for Anantnag-Rajouri seat of Jammu and Kashmir has been postponed till May 25. Although voting for Betul seat of Madhya Pradesh was to be held on April 26 during the second phase, it was postponed to May 7 after the death of the BSP candidate. In this way, voting will be held for 93 seats tomorrow. Let us know for which Lok Sabha seats of different states have been voted in the third phase and about the candidates contesting on the hot seats of this phase.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Voting is on these seats
In the third phase of Lok Sabha elections, 10 eight seats of Uttar Pradesh – Sambhal, Hathras, Agra (SC), Fatehpur Sikri, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Badaun, Amla, Bareilly, 5 seats of Bihar – Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Araria, Madhepura, 7 seats of Khagaria, Chhattisgarh – Surguja, Raigarh, Janjgir-Champa, Korba, Bilaspur, Durg, Raipur, 9 seats of Madhya Pradesh – Morena, Bhind, Gwalior, Guna, Sagar, Vidisha, Bhopal, Rajgarh apart from Betul and Maharashtra. Voting will be held for 11 seats- Baramati, Raigarh, Dharashiv, Latur (SC), Solapur (SC), Madha, Sangli, Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg, Kolhapur, Hatkanangle.
Apart from this, all 24 out of 25 seats of Gujarat – Kutch, Banaskantha, Patan, Mahesana, Sabarkantha, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad East, Ahmedabad West, Surendranagar, Rajkot, Porbandar, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Anand, Kheda, Panchmahal, Dahod. , Vadodara, Chhota Udaipur, Bharuch, Bardoli, Navsari, Valsad, 14 seats of Karnataka – Chikkodi, Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Gulbarga, Raichur, Bidar, Koppal, Bellary, Haveri, Dharwad, Uttara Kannada, Davangere, Shimoga, West Bengal. 4 seats of – Malda North, Malda South, Jangipur, Murshidabad, 4 seats of Assam – Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Barpeta, Gauhati, 2 seats of Goa – North Goa, South Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli. 1 seat of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. , 1 seat of Daman and Diu – Voting is also to be held for Daman and Diu.
These veterans including Amit Sham, Scindia, Pralhad Joshi are in the field
There are some major seats in the third phase on which many prominent faces, including current and former Union Ministers, are in the fray. Union Home Minister Amit Shah is contesting elections from Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule is contesting from Baramati against her nephew Ajit Pawar’s wife Sunetra Pawar. BJP has fielded former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan from Vidisha. Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia is contesting from MP’s Guna, Pralhad Joshi from Dharwad, Basavaraj Bommai from Haveri and Badruddin Ajmal from Dhubri. Apart from these, Dimple Yadav, wife of former UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, is contesting from Mainpuri seat.
The claim of the third phase is going to be important for BJP and its allies. In 2019, 75 out of 93 seats were won, while India Bloc parties won only 11 seats. 4 seats went to undivided Shiv Sena, two seats were won by independent candidates and one seat was won by AIUDF.