Voting for the last and final phase of Lok Sabha election will be held on Sunday in 59 constituencies across seven states and one Union Territory. The campaigning for the last phase of the staggered Lok Sabha elections spread over more than a month drew to a close Friday. In West Bengal, the Election Commission had ordered the campaign to end on Thursday following violence involving Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers in Kolkata during a road show of BJP chief Amit Shah.
Polling will be held on Sunday in the seventh phase in all 13 seats in Punjab, 13 seats in Uttar Pradesh, nine in West Bengal, eight seats each in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, four in Himachal Pradesh, three in Jharkhand and the lone seat Chandigarh.
Of these 59 seats going to poll, the BJP is currently in power in 30 seats, Trinamool Congress is in power in 8 seats, Congress is in power in 5 seats, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) are in power in 4 seats each while Janata Dal United and Apna Dal are in power in one seat each. The two remaining seats - Dewas in Madhya Pradesh and Jadavpur in West Bengal were won by BJP's Manohar Untwal and Trinamool Congress's Dr Sugata Bose respectively in 2014 election - are currently vacant.
Here are the sitting MPs in these 59 seats:
STATE | LOK SABHA SEAT | PARTY | SITTING MP |
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SEVENTH PHASE – 59 CONSTITUENCIES | |||
Bihar | ARRAH | BJP | Raj Kumar Singh |
Bihar | BUXAR | BJP | Ashwini Kumar Choubey |
Bihar | JAHANABAD | RLSP | Dr. Arun Kumar |
Bihar | KARAKAT | RLSP | Upendra Kushwaha |
Bihar | NALANDA | JDU | Kaushalendra Kumar |
Bihar | PATALIPUTRA | BJP | Ram Kripal Yadav |
Bihar | PATNA SAHIB | BJP | Shatrughan Prasad Sinha |
Bihar | SASARAM | BJP | Chhedi Paswan |
Himachal Pradesh | HAMIRPUR | BJP | Anurag Singh Thakur |
Himachal Pradesh | KANGRA | BJP | Shanta Kumar |
Himachal Pradesh | MANDI | BJP | Ram Swaroop Sharma |
Himachal Pradesh | SHIMLA | BJP | Virender Kashyap |
Jharkhand | DUMKA | JMM | Shibu Soren |
Jharkhand | GODDA | BJP | Dr. Nishikant Dubey |
Jharkhand | RAJMAHAL | JMM | Vijay Kumar Hansdak |
Madhya Pradesh | DEWAS* (vacant) | BJP | Manohar Untwal* |
Madhya Pradesh | DHAR | BJP | Savitri Thakur |
Madhya Pradesh | INDORE | BJP | Sumitra Mahajan (Tai) |
Madhya Pradesh | KHANDWA | BJP | Nand Kumar Singh Chauhan |
Madhya Pradesh | KHARGONE | BJP | Subhash Patel |
Madhya Pradesh | MANDSAUR | BJP | Sudheer Gupta |
Madhya Pradesh | RATLAM | Congress | Kantilal Bhuria |
Madhya Pradesh | UJJAIN | BJP | Prof. Chintamani Malviya |
Punjab | AMRITSAR | Congress | Gurjeet Singh Aujla |
Punjab | ANANDPUR SAHIB | SAD | Prem Singh Chandumajra |
Punjab | BATHINDA | SAD | Harsimrat Kaur Badal |
Punjab | FARIDKOT | AAP | Prof. Sadhu Singh |
Punjab | FATEHGARH SAHIB | AAP | Harinder Singh Khalsa |
Punjab | FIROZPUR | SAD | Sher Singh Ghubaya |
Punjab | GURDASPUR | Congress | Sunil Kumar Jakhar |
Punjab | HOSHIARPUR | BJP | Vijay Sampla |
Punjab | JALANDHAR | Congress | Santokh Singh Chaudhary |
Punjab | KHADOOR SAHIB | SAD | Ranjit Singh Brahmpura |
Punjab | LUDHIANA | Congress | Ravneet Singh |
Punjab | PATIALA | AAP | Dr. Dharam Vira Gandhi |
Punjab | SANGRUR | AAP | Bhagwant Mann |
West Bengal | BARASAT | TMC | Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar |
West Bengal | BASIRHAT | TMC | Idris Ali |
West Bengal | DIAMOND HARBOUR | TMC | Abhishek Banerjee |
West Bengal | DUM DUM | TMC | Prof. Saugata Roy |
West Bengal | JADAVPUR* (vacant) | TMC | Dr. Sugata Bose |
West Bengal | JAYNAGAR | TMC | Pratima Mondal |
West Bengal | KOLKATA DAKSHIN | TMC | Subrata Bakshi |
West Bengal | KOLKATA UTTAR | TMC | Sudip Bandyopadhyay |
West Bengal | MATHURAPUR | TMC | Choudhury Mohan Jatua |
Chandigarh | CHANDIGARH | BJP | Kirron Anupam Kher |
Uttar Pradesh | BALLIA | BJP | Bharat Singh |
Uttar Pradesh | BANSGAON | BJP | Kamlesh Paswan |
Uttar Pradesh | CHANDAULI | BJP | Mahendra Nath Pandey |
Uttar Pradesh | DEORIA | BJP | Kalraj Mishra |
Uttar Pradesh | GHAZIPUR | BJP | Manoj Kumar Sinha |
Uttar Pradesh | GHOSI | BJP | Hari Narayan Rajbhar |
Uttar Pradesh | GORAKHPUR | BJP | Praveen Kumar Nishad |
Uttar Pradesh | KUSHI NAGAR | BJP | Rajesh Pandey |
Uttar Pradesh | MAHARAJGANJ | BJP | Pankaj Chowdhary |
Uttar Pradesh | MIRZAPUR | Apna Dal | Anupriya Patel |
Uttar Pradesh | ROBERTSGANJ | BJP | Chhotelal |
Uttar Pradesh | SALEMPUR | BJP | Ravindra Kushawaha |
Uttar Pradesh | VARANASI | BJP | Narendra Modi |
This phase will see voting in Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He is pitted against Congress candidate Ajay Rai, Samajwadi Party nominee Shalini Yadav and 23 others. One more high profile seat where voting will be held on May 19 is Patna Sahib where incumbent Lok Sabha MP Shatrughan Sinha is challenging his former party colleague and Union Law and Justice and Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. Sinha had won from Patna Sahib in 2009 and 2014 Lok Sabha elections on a BJP ticket but quit the party in March 2019 and joined the Congress.
The high octane campaign was marked by vitriolic attacks and counter-attacks by political leaders and use of derogatory language and objectionable remarks. The postal ballots, electronic voting machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines will be opened on May 23 at 8 am. The results will be declared after the counting of votes.