PC’s going to polls – 57. (General- 41; ST- 03; SC-13)
State’s-UT’s – 8.
Voting / Polling is on June 1, Saturday.
Counting of Votes – Results – June 4, Tuesday.
State’s-UT’s – 8 – Bihar, Chandigarh (UT), Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
Total – 10.06 crore electors. Over 10.06 crore electors include approx. 5.24 crore Male; 4.82 crore Female and 3574 Third gender electors.
Over 1.09 lakh polling stations. 13 Special trains and 8 helicopter sorties (for Himachal Pradesh) were deployed to ferry polling and security personnel.
904 Candidates in poll fray in 57 PC’s spread across 8 State’s & UT.
Highest number of contesting candidates – 328 in Punjab, 144 Uttar Pradesh, 134 Bihar and 124 in West Bengal.
Lowest number of contesting candidates – 19 in Chandigarh (UT).
State’s & UT going to Polls on June 1 = 57 PC’s.
Bihar – 8 PC’s – Nalanda, Patna Sahib, Pataliputra, Arrah, Buxar, Sasaram, Karakat, and Jahanabad.
Chandigarh (UT) – 1 PC. – Chandigarh.
Himachal Pradesh – 4 PC’s – Kangra, Mandi, Hamirpur, and Shimla.
Jharkhand – 3 PC’s – Rajmahal, Dumka, Godda.
Odisha – 6 PC’s – Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, and Jagatsinghpur.
Punjab – 13 PC’s – Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Khadoor Sahib, Jalandhar (SC), Hoshiarpur (SC), Firozpur, Bathinda, Sangrur, Patiala.
Uttar Pradesh – 13 PC’s – Maharajaganj, Gorakhpur, Kishunagar, Deoria, Bangson, Ghosi, Salempur, Ballia, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Robertsganj.
West Bengal – 9 PC’s – Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jaynagar, Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin, Kolkata Uttar.
Key Contests & Key Constituencies – India.
Bihar – Patliputra PC – Misa Bharti (RJD) – vs – Ram Kripal Yadav (BJP).
Himachal Pradesh – Mandi PC – Kangana Ranaut (BJP) – vs – Vikramaditya Singh (Congress).
Himachal Pradesh – Hamirpur PC – Union Min. Anurag Thakur (BJP) – vs – Satpal Singh Raizada (Congress).
Himachal Pradesh – Mandi PC – Kangna Ranaut (BJP) – vs – Vikramaditya Singh (Congress).
Punjab – Jalandhar PC – Charanjit Singh Channi (Congress) – vs – Pawan Kumar Tinu (AAP) – vs – Mohinder Singh Kaypee (SAD).
Punjab – Bhatinda PC – Harsimrat Kaur Badal (SAD) – vs – Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu (Congress) – vs – Gurmeet Singh Khudian (AAP) – vs – Parampal Kaur Sidhu (BJP).
Uttar Pradesh – Varanasi PC – Prime Minister Narendra Modi (BJP) – vs – Ajay Rai (Congress).
Uttar Pradesh – Gorakhpur PC – Ravi Kishan (BJP) – vs – Kajal Nishad (Samajwadi Party).
West Bengal – Diamond Harbour PC – Abhishek Banerjee (TMC) – vs – Pratikur Rahaman (CPI-M) – vs – Abhijit Das (BJP).
West Bengal – Basirhat PC – Nirapada Sarkar (CPI-M) – vs – Rekha Patra (BJP) – vs – S K Nurul Islam (TMC).
