Elections 2024: 58 Seats Across 6 States And 2 UTs In Fray For Phase-6 Of Lok Sabha Polls; Assembly Polls In 42 Seats In Odisha | Details

W⛄ith 58 constituencies across six states and two Union te🃏rritories in the fray, the penultimate phase of the Lok Sabha elections is taking place today.

V🔥oting began at 7 am and will conclude at 6 pm. So far, voting has been completed in 428 constituencies out of 543 across 25 states and Union territories.

After today, the last and final phase of high-octane elections will take place on June 1 while results 🦹will be declared on June 4.

Phase-6 of Lok Sabha Elections: Polling in 58 seats across 6 states and 2 UTs

Today, the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 is be♛ing conducted across the following states and UTs.

• Uttar Pradesh (14 seats)

• Haryana (10 seats)

• West Bengal (8 seats)

• Bihar (8 seats)

• Delhi (7 seats)

• Odisha (6 seats)

• Jharkhand (4 seats)

• Jammu and Kashmir (1 seat)

Following the decision taken by the Election Commission of India (ECI), polling in Jammu and Kash🌜mir’s Anantnag-Rajouri, which was adjourned in Phase 3, will take place t𓂃oday.

Here's 🍰the full list of constituencies gꦚoing for polls on phase 6.

Phase-6 of Lok Sabha Elections: Key candidates

For the sixth phase, as many as 889 candidates are in the fray from the 58 Lok Sabha&ꦺnbsp;Parliamentary Constituenci🔜es. The key candidates in the fray in the sixth phase are mentioned below:

• BJP's Manoj Tiwari (North-East Delhi)

• Congress' Kanhaiya Kumar (North-East Delhi)

• BJP's Maneka Gandhi (Sultanpur, UP)

• PDP's Mehbooba Mufti (Anantnag-Rajouri, J&K)

• BJP’s Abhijit Gangopadhyay (Tamluk, West Bengal)

• BJP's Naveen Jindal (Kurukshetra, Haryana)

• BJP's Rao Inderjit Singh (Gurgaon, Haryana)

• BJP's Dharmendra Pradhan (Sambalpur, Odisha)

• BJP’s Sambit Patra (Puri, Odisha)

• Congress’ Raj Babbar (Gurgaon, Haryana)

Lok Sabha Elections: Voter turnout till phase 5

• Phase 1 (April 19) - 66.14 percent

• Phase 2 (April 26) - 66.71 percent

• Phase 3 (May 7) - 65.68 percent

• Phase 4 ( May 13) - 69.16 percent

• Phase 5 (May 20)- 62.2 percent

Odisha Assembly Polls 2024

Over 94.48 lakh🎶 people are going to polls today across six Lok Sabha and 42 assembly segments in Odis꧑ha. Voting began at 7 am and will conclude at 6 pm. Results will be announced on June 4.

Polling to take place in the following seats

• Puri

• Bhubaneswar

• Cuttack

• Dhenkanal

• Keonjhar

• Sambalpur

These seven lok sabha seats encompass 42 assembly seats within their jurisdictions𒐪. 31 out of the 42 assenbly seats fall under the General category while🍎 five under Scheduled Tribes and six under Scheduled Castes categories respectively.

About the key candidates

A total of 447 candidates, including 64 ౠfor the Lok Sabha seats and 383 for the assembly constituencies, are in the fray.

Thh🌞e list of notable candidates in♍clude the following:

• Dharmendra Pradhan

• Sambit Patra

• Prafulla Mallick

• Ranendra Pratap Swain

• Ashok Panda