1 / 8The Election Commission on Saturday, March 16, announced that the upcoming polls for the Lok Sabha will be held in seven phases starting April 19. Nearly 970 million people are eligible to cast vote in the upcoming polls at over 1.2 million polling stations.
2 / 8Phase 1: The states and union territories that go to polls on April 19 include Arunachal Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Ladakh, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Puducherry, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Telangana, and Uttarakhand.
3 / 8Phase 2: 89 constituencies spread across Rajasthan, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Tripura, and Manipur will go to polls on April 26.
4 / 8Phase 3: On May 7, 94 constituencies spread across Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Assam, and Jammu and Kashmir will vote.
5 / 8Phase 4: 96 constituencies across Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal will go to polls on May 13.
6 / 8Phase 5: On May 20, 49 constituencies spread across Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, and Maharashtra will go to polls.
7 / 8Phase 6: 57 constituencies across Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, and Odisha will be voting on May 25.
8 / 8Phase 7: On May 30, 57 constituencies across Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Odisha will go to polls.
