Voting for Phase 3 Lok Sabha Elections 2024 commenced at 7 am on Tuesday, covering 93 constituencies across 11 states and Union Territories. Notable candidates in this phase include Union home minister Amit Shah, contesting for a second term from Gujarat’s Gandhinagar, and Union ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia (Guna, Madhya Pradesh), Mansukh Mandaviya (Porbandar, Gujarat), and Pralhad Joshi (Dharwad, Karnataka).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote on X as he posted his picture, “Voted in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections! Urging everyone to do so as well and strengthen our democracy”.
As many as 1,331 candidates are in the fray in the phase 3 polls, the Elections Commission of India said.
ate of over 283 Lok Sabha seats would be sealed after the third phase is over today. This means elections to more than half of the 543 Lok Sabha seats will be over in the first three phases.
Voting began at 7 am and ends at 6 pm. Voting will be completed in Gujarat and Goa states and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Union territory on Tuesday. Also with 14 seats voting in this phase, voting for all 28 seats of Karnataka will also be over today. With seven seats voting today, the Lok Sabha Election for 11 seats of Chhattisgarh will also be over.
Among the other seats third phase are four in Assam, five in Bihar, seven in Chhattisgarh, nine in Madhya Pradesh, 11 in Maharashtra, 10 in Uttar Pradesh and four in West Bengal.
Among the key candidates whose fate will be sealed today include Union Home Minister Amit Shah who is contesting from Gandhinagar (Gujarat), Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Vidisha (MP), Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna (MP) and Dimple Yadav from Mainpuri (UP), to name a few.
Lok Sabha Election 2024: Phase-wise schedule:
• Phase 1- April 19 (Polling done)
• Phase 2- April 26 (Polling done)
• Phase 3- May 7
• Phase 4 – May 13
• Phase 5 – May 20
• Phase 6 – May 25
• Phase 7 – June 1
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