PM Modi to address poll rally in Tamil Nadu’s Salem today, Lok Sabha Election 2024.
General election voting this year spans seven phases, starting Lok Sabha Election 2024, April 19 and ending June 1, with counting scheduled for June 4.
Lok Sabha Election 2024, The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on March 16 that this year’s general election will be conducted in ‘seven phases’, beginning on April 19 and ending on June 1. While the counting for all the state assemblies, which are going for election during the same time, has been set for June 4, the poll body changed the counting dates for Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, where counting will occur on June 2. Other states going for Assembly elections are Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, with 175 and 147 seats, respectively.
Detailed dates of seven phases of Lok Sabha Election 2024 –
- Phase 1- April 19, 2024
- Phase 2- 26 April 2024
- Phase 3-7 May 2024
- Phase 4 – 13 May 2024
- Phase 5 – 20 May 2024
- Phase 6 – 25 May 2024
- Phase 7 – 1 June 2024
- Counting on June 4
State Assembly elections Schedule
Andhra Pradesh – Phase 4 (175 seats)
Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim – Phase 1 (60 seats)
Odisha – In four phases, Phase 4, 5, 6,7 (147 seats)
Here are some top election updates so far –
- Approximately 65,000 paramilitary personnel will be deployed by the Centre in West Bengal for Election security, the largest deployment among all states. New checkpoints will be established by the election near West Bengal’s international border, along with drone surveillance to prevent smuggling of election-related items.
- Besides West Bengal, about 50,000 paramilitary personnel will be deployed in Jammu and Kashmir to ensure peaceful elections.
- NDA reveals a seat-sharing plan for Bihar, with 40 seats going to polls starting on April 19. In 2019, NDA won 39 out of 40 seats, with BJP winning 17, JD(U) 16, and LJP 6. BJP will fight 17 seats, the same as 2019, and its principal ally, the Janata Dal (United), will fight in 16, one lower than 2019. For the first time, the BJP would contest more seats than the JD(U).
- DMK allocates nine lok Sabha Seats in Tamil Naidu and one in Puducherry to Congress, following their successful alliance in the 2019 elections. In 2019, the Congress contested nine out of 39 parliamentary seats, besides the lone seat in Puducherry. It won eight seats in the polls in Tamil Nadu. The DMK contested 20 seats and won all of them that year.
