A total of 152 candidates are in the fray for 13 Lok Sabha seats which will witness polling in Uttar Pradesh in phase four of ongoing Lok Sabha poll on Monday..
The constituencies going to polls in this phase are - Shahjahanpur, Kheri, Hardoi, Misrikh, Unnao, Farrukhabad, Etawah, Kannauj, Kanpur, Akbarpur, Jalaun, Jhansi and Hamirpur. In 2014, 198 candidates had contested from these 13 seats.
As per the data sourced from the website of Chief Electoral Officer of Uttar Pradesh, there are a total of 2,38,88,367 voters in these 13 seats, including 1,29,75,125 males, 1,09,12,012 females and 1230 third gender electors. A total of 27,513 polling stations have been set up for voting in this phase.
Constituency wise number of contestants in above mentioned 13 constituencies in the current and preceding two General Elections is given below:
Lok Sabha Constituency | Number of Contestants | ||
---|---|---|---|
General Election-2009 | General Election-2014 | General Election - 2019 | |
Shahjahanpur | 15 | 13 | 14 |
Kheri | 12 | 11 | 15 |
Hardoi | 11 | 15 | 11 |
Misrikh | 13 | 14 | 13 |
Unnao | 21 | 21 | 09 |
Farrukhabad | 16 | 22 | 09 |
Etawah | 13 | 10 | 13 |
Kannauj | 16 | 12 | 10 |
Kanpur | 18 | 21 | 14 |
Akbarpur | 17 | 18 | 14 |
Jalaun | 16 | 11 | 05 |
Jhansi | 18 | 15 | 11 |
Hamirpur | 16 | 15 | 14 |
Total | 202 | 198 | 152 |
Uttar Pradesh has a total of 80 Lok Sabha constituencies which are going through seven phase polling in 2019 Lok Sabha poll. Voting for 26 Lok Sabha seats is already over in the first three phases for which polls were held on April 11th, l8th and 23rd , 2019 respectively.