The upcoming polls for the Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Indian Parliament) will be held in seven phases starting April 19. The results will be declared on June 4.
Nearly 970 million people are eligible to cast vote in the upcoming polls at over 1.2 million polling stations.
West Bengal are three states where the polling will take place in all seven phases. Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are the other two.
These are the dates on which different constituencies would go to vote in West Bengal:
| Date | Constituencies going to polls |
| April 19 | Coochbehar, Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri |
| April 26 | Darjeeling, Raiganj, Balurghat |
| May 7 | Malda North, Malda South, Jangipur, Murshidabad |
| May 13 | Bahrampur, Bahrampur East, Krishnanagar, Ranaghat, Bardhaman-Durgapur, Asansol, Bolpur, Birbhum |
| May 20 | Bangaon, Barrackpur, Howrah, Uluberia, Sreerampur, Hooghly, Arambag |
| May 25 | Tamluk, Kanthi, Ghatal, Jhargram, Medinipur, Purulia, Bankura, Bishnupur |
| June 1 | Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jaynagar, Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata South, Kolkata North |
On March 10, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) released its list of candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. Some sitting members of the Parliament were dropped and fresh faces like former cricketers Yusuf Pathan and Kriti Azad were introduced as candidates.
The party has renominated 16 sitting MPs and fielded 12 women.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released two lists for the candidates contesting the Parliamentary election. The first list had 20 names from Bengal including the likes of Locket Chatterjee, Anirban Ganguly and Rathin Chakraborty. You can check the entire first list of BJP Lok Sabha candidates here.
First Published: Mar 16, 2024 6:12 PM IST
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