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Lok Sabha Elections Schedule

Voting will be held in seven phases from April 19 to June 1, results on June 4

Lok Sabha elections 2024 will take place in seven phases from April 19 to June 1 and the votes will be counted on June 4 (Tuesday), the Election Commission has announced. According to the schedule, the first day of elections will see the maximum number of constituencies going to polls at 102. The fifth phase, which is on May 20, will see just 49 constituencies going to polls - the lowest among all seven phases.

Here's a detailed look at the distribution of states across various phases:

Single poll date in 22 states: Arunachal Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar island, Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Ladakh, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Puducherry, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Telangana, Uttarakhand, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu.

Two-phase voting in 4 states: Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tripura and Manipur

Three-phase voting in 2 states: Chhattisgarh, Assam

Four-phase voting in 3 states: Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand

Five-phase voting in 2 states: Maharashtra, Jammu & Kashmir

Seven-phase voting in 3 states: Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal

Lok Sabha election dates

Phase	States	Seats
Phase 1 (April 19)	21	102
Phase 2 (April 26)	13	89
Phase 3 (May 7)	12	94
Phase 4 (May 13)	10	96
Phase 5 (May 20)	8	49
Phase 6 (May 25)	7	57
Phase 7 (June 1)	8	57

Phase 1 (April 19)

Arunachal Pradesh (2), Assam (5), Bihar (4), Chhattisgarh (1), Madhya Pradesh (6), Maharashtra (5), Manipur (2), Meghalaya (2), Mizoram (1), Nagaland (1), Rajasthan (12), Sikkim (1), Tamil Nadu (39), Tripura (1), Uttar Prdaesh (8), Uttarakhand (5), West Bengal (3), Andaman and Nicobar (1), J&K (1), Lakshadweep (1), Puducherry (1)

Phase 2 (April 26)

Assam (5), Bihar (5), Chhattisgarh (3), Karnataka (14), Kerala (20), Madhya Pradesh (7), Maharashtra (8), Manipur (1), Rajasthan (13), Tripura (1), Uttar Pradesh (8), West Bengal (3), J&K (1)

Phase 3 (May 7)

Assam (4), Bihar (5), Chhattisgarh (7), Goa (2), Gujarat (26), Karnataka (14), Madhya Pradesh (8), Maharashtra (11), Uttar Pradesh (10), West Bengal (4), Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (2), J&K (1)

Phase 4 (May 13)

Andhra Pradesh (25), Bihar (5), Jharkhand (4), Madhya Pradesh (8), Maharashtra (11), Odisha (4), Telangana (17), Uttar Pradesh (13), West Bengal (8), J&K (1)

Phase 5 (May 20)

Bihar (5), Jharkhand (3), Maharashtra (13), Odisha (5), Uttar Pradesh (14), West Bengal (7), J&K (1), Ladakh (1)

Phase 6 (May 25)

Bihar (8), Haryana (10), Jharkhand (4), Odisha (6), Uttar Pradesh (14), West Bengal (8), Delhi (7)

Phase 7 (June 1)

Bihar (8), Himachal Pradesh (4), Jharkhand (3), Odisha (6), Punjab (13), Uttar Pradesh (13), West Bengal (9), Chandigarh (1)

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Voting will be held in seven phases from April 19 to June 1, results on June 4