By TJN National Desk
New Delhi | May 25: Amid the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, the sixth and the second last phase of the Lok Sabha elections concluded on Saturday.
This sixth phase witnessed the elections on eight seats in Bihar, all 10 seats in Haryana, one seat in Jammu and Kashmir, four in Jharkhand, all seven seats in Delhi, six in Odisha, 14 in Uttar Pradesh, and eight in West Bengal. A total of 889 candidates are in the fray.
Along with the Lok Sabha polls, we had also voting on the 42-assembly constituencies of Odisha. Assembly elections are being held in the state simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections in the state.
The seven parliamentary seats of the capital city of Delhi also went under polls on Saturday. These constituencies were New Delhi, North East Delhi, East Delhi, West Delhi, South Delhi, North West Delhi, and Chandni Chowk.
According to the latest data of the Election Commission, the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections for 58 parliamentary constituencies saw a voter turnout of 57.7 per cent till 5 pm.
The voting in the nation started at 7 am morning and concluded at 6 pm evening on Saturday.
According to the EC, West Bengal recorded the highest voter turnout (77.99 per cent) followed by Jharkhand (61.41 per cent), Uttar Pradesh (52.02 per cent), Odisha (59.60 per cent), Jammu and Kashmir (51.35 per cent), Bihar (52.24 per cent), Haryana (55.93 per cent), and Delhi (53.73 per cent).
Some key seats in this phase include New Delhi, North-East Delhi, North-West Delhi and Chandni Chowk in the national capital, and Sultanpur and Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh. Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag-Rajouri, West Bengal’s Tamluk, Medinipur, Haryana’s Karnal, Kurukshetra, Gurgaon, Rohtak, and Odisha’s Bhubaneswar, Puri and Sambalpur are some of the other key seats.
Stakes are high for the BJP as also for the Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, and other constituents of the INDIA bloc in this phase of the election.
Polling has already been completed on 428 parliamentary constituencies for 25 states and UTs in the first five phases of general elections.
Over 11.13 crore voters, include 5.84 crore males, 5.29 crore females and 5120 third gender electors are eligible to exercise their franchise in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls. Around 11.4 lakh polling officials will be involved in conducting this phase of the election.
The Lok Sabha elections will be completed on June 1 after the seventh phase of polls in which voters from 57 constituencies will exercise their franchise. The results will be declared on June 4.
