Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 1 voting for 102 seats tomorrow, check key constituencies and candidates

Lok Sabha Election 2024: The stage is set for the first phase of polling for 102 Lok Sabha seats across 21 states and Union territories on Friday. In the first phase, all 39 seats in Tamil Nadu, 5 in Uttarakhand, 2 in Arunachal Pradesh, and 12 of 25 seats in Rajasthan will go to polls on April 19. 

Besides these, voting will be held in 5 seats in Maharashtra, 5 seats in Assam, 4 seats in Bihar, 6 seats in Madhya Pradesh, 8 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 3 seats in West Bengal, and one seat each in Tripura, Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh.

For the BJP, all eyes are on Tamil Nadu, where the saffron party under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and state chief K Annamalai threw its weight to increase its vote and seat share. The other crucial state for the saffron party is West Bengal and Maharashtra.  

Tamil Nadu Lok Sabha Elections: Key Constituencies and Candidates 

Tamil Nadu Constituencies	NDA	AIADMK	UPA
Coimbatore	K Annamalai	Singai Ramachandran	Ganapathy Rajkumar
Nilgiri	L Murugan	Lokesh Tamilselvan	A Raja
Thoothukudi	SDR Vijayaseelan	R Sivasami Velumani	Kanimozhi
Chennai South	Tamilisai Soundararajan	Jayavardhan	Thamizhachi Thangapandian
Kanniyakumari	Pon. Radhakrishnan	Nazerath Pasilian	Vijay Vasanth

Among the key faces going to polls in the first phase are eight Union Ministers - Nitin Gadkari, Kiren Rijiju, Sarbanada Sonowal, Sanjeev Baliyan, Jitendra Singh, Bhupendra Yadav, Arjun Ram Meghwal and L Murugan, two former chief ministers - Biplab Kumar Deb (Tripura) and Nabam Tuki (Arunachal Pradesh), and former Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan (Telangana).

Maharashtra Lok Sabha Elections: Key Constituencies and Candidates 

Maharashtra Constituencies	NDA	MVA
Nagpur	Nitin Gadkari	Vikas Thakare
Ramtek	Raju Parwe	Shyamkumar Barwe

Rajasthan Lok Sabha Elections: Key Constituencies and Candidates 

Rajasthan Constituencies	BJP	Congress
Churu	Devendra Jhajharia	Rahul Kaswan
Bikaner	Arjun Ram Meghwal	Madan Gopal Meghwal
Alwar	Bhupender Yadav	Lalit Yadav
Jaipur	Manju Sharma	Pratap Singh Khachariyawas

Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha Elections: Key Constituencies and Candidates 

Uttar Pradesh Constituencies	BJP	Samajwadi Party
Pilibhit	Jitin Prasada	Bhagwant Saran Gangwar
Rampur	Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi	Mohibullah Nadvi
Muzaffarnagar	Sanjeev Balyan	Harindra Malik

Assam Lok Sabha Elections: Key Constituencies and Candidates 

Assam Constituencies	BJP	INDIA
Dibrugarh	Sarbananda Sonowal	Manoj Dhanuar (AAP)
Jorhat	Topon Kumar Gogoi	Gaurav Gogoi

Uttarakhand Lok Sabha Elections: Key Constituencies and Candidate

Uttarakhand Constituencies	BJP	Congress
Haridwar	Trivendra Singh Rawat	Virendra Rawat
Pauri Garhwal	Anil Baluni	Ganesh Godiyal

Arunachal Pradesh Lok Sabha Elections 2024 

Arunachal	BJP	Congress
Arunachal West	Kiren Rijiju	Nabam Tuki

Tripura Lok Sabha Elections 2024 

Tripura	BJP	Congress
Tripura West	Biplab Kumar Deb	Ashish Kumar Saha

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress-led UPA won 45 of these 102 seats and the NDA 41. Six of these seats have been redrawn as part of the delimitation exercise. Polling will also be held in Meghalaya (2), Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1), Mizoram (1), Nagaland (1), Puducherry (1), Sikkim (1) and Lakshadweep (1). 

In Tamil Nadu, BJP's state president K Annamalai is contesting from Coimbatore, Tamilisai Soundararajan from Chennai South, and Union Minister L Murugan from Nilgiris. Murugan is facing former telecom minister and DMK leader A Raja. DMK's Kanimozhi is contesting from Thoothukkudi.

West Bengal's three seats going to polls in phase 1 are Alipurduar, Coochbehar, and Jalpaiguri. The BJP won all three seats, which fall in North Bengal, in 2019.  

In Maharashtra, the high-profile Nagpur seat is expected to witness a two-way contest between BJP's Nitin Gadkari and Congress leader Vikas Thakre.

Of 8 seats going to polls in Uttar Pradesh, eyes will be on Rampur and Pilibhbit. Rampur is the stronghold of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, while BJP has replaced Varun Gandhi with Jitin Prasada in Pilibhit.

The second phase of polling for 89 seats in 13 states and Union territories will be held on April 26.