Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Phase 2: Voting in 13 states on April 26; constituencies and candidates - all you need to know

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Voting for 89 seats across 13 states will be held in the second phase on April 26 (Friday). Among the major states going to the polls in this round are Assam (5), Bihar (5), Chhattisgarh (3), Karnataka (14), Kerala (20), Madhya Pradesh (7), Maharashtra (8), Uttar Pradesh (8), Rajasthan (13), and West Bengal (3). After the second phase, the elections will be over in Kerala and Rajasthan. Voting for 12 seats in Rajasthan was held in the first phase on April 19. 

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Phase 2: Key constituencies and candidates

In Assam, five seats are up for grabs in the second phase - Karimganj, Silchar, Mangaldoi, Nawgong, Kaliabor. 

Assam	BJP	Congress	AITC/AIUDF
Karimganj	Kripanath Mallah	Rashid Ahmed Choudhary	Sahabul Islam Choudhary (AIUDF)
Silchar	Parimal Suklabaidya	Surjya Kant Sarkar	Radheshyam Biswas (AITC)
Nawgong	Suresh Bora	Pradyut Bordoloi	Aminul Islam (AIUDF)

Bihar's Kishanganj, Purnia, Katihar, Bhagalpur, and Banka Lok Seats will go to polls on Friday. In the state, the Congress and RJD are in alliance to take on the BJP. However, in Purnia, Congress leader Pappu Yadav is contesting against RJD's Beema Bharti. 

Bihar - Key Constituencies	NDA	INDIA
Kishanganj	Mujahid Alam	Mohammad Javed
Purnia	Santosh Kumar Kushwaha	Beema Bharti
Bhagalpur	Ajay Kumar Mandal	Ajeet Sharma
Katihar	Dulal Chandra Goswami	Tariq Anwar

In Chhattisgarh, voting will be held for Rajnandgaon, Mahasamund, and Kanker. All eyes will be on Rajnandgaon, where former chief minister and Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel is up against Santosh Pandey of the BJP.  The saffron party has held this seat since 2009.  

Chattisgarh	BJP	Congress
Rajnandgaon	Santosh Pandey	Bhupesh Baghel

Karnataka's 14 Lok Sabha seats are up for grabs in the second phase on April 26. An intense contest is expected in Bangalore Rural, Bangalore North, Bangalore Central, Bangalore South, Hassan, Mandya, and Mysore. The fate of BJP's Tejsvi Surya, former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy, DK Shivakumar's brother DK Suresh, and royal scion Yaduveer Wadiyar will be sealed in this phase. DK Suresh is the second richest candidate, while the Congress' Mandya candidate is the richest candidate in phase two with assets of over Rs 600 crores.  

Karnataka	NDA	Congress
Bangalore Rural	C. N. Manjunath	DK Suresh
Bangalore North	Shobha Karandlaje	Rajeev Gowda
Bangalore Central	PC Mohan	Mansoor Ali Khan
Bangalore South	Tejasvi Surya	Soumya Reddy
Hassan	Prajwal Revanna	Shreyash Patel Gowda
Mandya	HD Kumaraswamy	Venkataramane Gowda
Mysore	Yaduveer Wadiyar	M Lakshman

Kerala's all 20 seats will go to polls in Phase 2. Here, all eyes will be on Wayanad, where Rahul Gandhi is up against CPI's Annie Raja and BJP's state president K Surendran. Shashi Tharoor is squaring off with BJP's Rajeev Chandrasekhar. Actor-turned-politician Suresh Gopi is also in the fray from Thrissur against K Muraleedharan of Congress and VS Sunil Kumar of CPI(M). 

Kerala	Congress	Left	BJP
Wayanad	Rahul Gandhi	Annie Raja	K Surendran
Thrissur	K Muraleedharan	VS Sunil Kumar	Suresh Gopi
Attingal	Adoor Prakash	V Joy	V Muraleedharan
Pathanamthitta	Anto Antony	Thomas Issac	Anil Antony
Thiruvananthapuram	Shashi Tharoor	Pannyan Raveendran	Rajeev Chandrasekhar

In the eastern part, voting will be held in West Bengal's three seats - Darjeeling, Balurghat, and Raiganj. In Balurghat, BJP's state chief Sukanta Majumdar is taking on TMC's Biplab Mitra. Darjeeling is expected to see a bipolar contest between Raju Bista and TMC's Gopal Lama.  

West Bengal	BJP	TMC	Congress/RSP
Darjeeling	Raju Bista	Gopal Lama	Munish Tamang (Cong)
Balurghat	Sukanta Majumdar	Biplab Mitra	Jaydeb Siddhanta (RSP)

In Rajasthan, voting will be held for 12 constituencies - Tonk-Sawai Madhopur, Ajmer, Pali, Jodhpur, Barmer, Jalore, Udaipur, Banswara, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Kota, and Jhalawar-Baran.

Here, Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat is in the race from Jodhpur, while Ashok Gehlot's son Vaibhav Gehlot is contesting from Jalore. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is contesting from Kota. 

Rajasthan - key constituencies	BJP	Congress
Jodhpur	Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	Karan Singh Uchiyarda
Kota	Om Birla	Prahlad Gunjal
Jalore	Lumbaram Choudhary	Vaibhav Gehlot

Maharashtra is another state going to polls in the second phase. Here, voting will be held for Buldhana, Akola, Amravati (SC), Wardha, Yavatmal-Washim, Hingoli, Nanded, and Parbhani. Here, all eyes will be on Amravati and Nanded.

Navneet Rana, who had run-ins with former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, is contesting from Amravati as BJP candidate. In Nanded, once a Congress bastion, the BJP is hoping to succeed after inducting former Congress chief minister Ashok Chavan.      

Maharashtra	NDA	INDIA
Amravati	Navneet Rana	Balwant Basawant Wankhede
Nanded	Prataprao Chikhalikar	Vasantrao Chavan

Uttar Pradesh is another key state where eight seats will go to polls in the second pahse. The seats going to polls are Amroha, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budh Nagar, Aligarh, Mathura, and Bulandshahr. Ramayana's Ram Arun Govil is in the race from Meerut and actor Hema Malini is contesting from Mathura.  

Uttar Pradesh	BJP	INDIA
Mathura	Hema Malini	Mukesh Dhangar (Congress)
Meerut	Arun Govil	Sunita Verma (SP)
Ghaziabad	Atul Garg	Dolly Sharma