A total of 49 Parliamentary Constituencies across 6 states and 2 union territories are set to go on polls on May 20 during the fifth phase of voting for the General Elections 2024.
Total of 47 Parliamentary Constituencies from six states that are going to vote on Monday are 5 PCs from Bihar, 3 from Jharkhand, 13 from Maharashtra, 5 from Odisha, 14 from Uttar Pradesh and 7 from West Bengal. Two parliamentary constituency from Union Territories that will vote during phase five are one each from Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
35 Assembly Constituencies from the state of Odisha will also go on polls during phase 5 voting simultaneously.
Polls for 18th Lok Sabha commenced from April 19 as the 102 constituencies across 21 States/UTs went on polls during the first phase of the general election. Additionally, 277 constituencies went on polls during the second, third and fourth phase on April 26, May 7 and May 13 respectively.
As the election is in it’s last few phases, with last three remaining, the voting percentage for last four phases stand at 66.95% as total of 45.1 crore voters have already casted votes and during phase-5, additional 8.95 crore voters will cast their vote.
The remaining two phases of voting will be held on May 25 and June 1 with counting on June 4 for Lok Sabha elections.
Sikkim State Assembly’s counting will be held on June 2 from 6 AM in the morning.