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Lok Sabha Election 2024 Voting Live Updates: Stay with The Quint for all the latest news on Phase 3 polling.
Published: 07 May 2024, 7:00 AM IST
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Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 3 Voting Live Updates: Voting for the third phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections commenced at 7:00 am on Tuesday, 7 May, with as many as 93 constituencies across 11 states and union territories going to the polls. A total of 1,351 are candidates in the fray.
Voting in a single phase will be held across Gujarat, Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu. Polling for four seats in Assam, eight in Madhya Pradesh, four in West Bengal, seven in Chhattisgarh, 11 in Maharashtra, 10 in Uttar Pradesh, and five in Bihar will also be held on Tuesday.
Some of the prominent candidates in the fray include:
Union Home Minister Amit Shah (Gandhinagar)
Nationalist Congress Party leader Supriya Sule (Baramati)
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Vidisha)
Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia (Guna)
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi (Dharwad)
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai (Haveri)
Samajwadi Party leader Dimple Yadav (Mainpuri)
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh (Rajgarh)
Snapshot
Over 11 crore voters are eligible to cast their ballots during the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
Voting for J&K's Anantnag-Rajouri seat was deferred by the EC from 7 May to 25 May.
A total voter turnout of 66.71 percent was recording during the second phase of voting on 26 April.
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Malda is witnessing a three-way contest and at stake is stalwart Ghani Khan Chowdhury's legacy.
Watch this report by Ishadrita Lahiri to get the mood from the g
'I Support Supriya, Brother Backs Sunetra': Divided Pawars Divide Baramati
"There are families where the son is siding with dada (Ajit Pawar) and the father is with saheb (Sharad Pawar). The differences aren't only in the Pawar family," said Swapnil Kate (40), a resident of Katewadi village in Mahrashtra's Baramati, the ancestral village of Sharad Pawar.
Swapnil, a staunch supporter of Sharad Pawar and MP Supriya Sule, had just returned after anchoring an event in a nearby village where Sharad Pawar's grandnephew and MLA Rohit Pawar was the chief guest.
Swapnil's cousin Milind Kate (42), the deputy sarpanch of Katewadi, meanwhile, stands with Ajit Pawar's wife and now Supriya's rival Sunetra.
The dominance of the Pawars on Baramati began 57 years ago when Sharad Pawar first became an MLA from the Baramati Assembly seat which he held undefeated till 1990. Since 1991, the seat is being held by his nephew and now rival Ajit Pawar.
But like Katewadi, most families, villages, and administration in Baramati is now caught in the 'tai vs vahini' battle.
Watch this ground report by Eshwar to get the mood of Baramati.
2024 Elections Phase 3: Can BJP Repeat its 90% Sweep or Will 'INDIA' Push Back?
From the Prajwal Revanna sex abuse scandal to the BJP's walkover win in Surat, a lot has happened in the run-up to this phase of polling.
The main question in this phase is whether the BJP will be able to repeat its domination of these 93 seats or can the Opposition inflict some losses on the BJP.
The figure to note here is that out of the 93 seats voting on 6 May, the BJP and its allies had won 81 in 2019, that is a little less than 90 percent.
The Quint's Political Editor Aditya Menon gives a low-down of all states.
Voting Commences Across 11 State & UTs
Voting commenced for phase 3 of the Lok Sabha elections at 7 AM on Tuesday, 7 May. As many as 93 constituencies across 11 states and union territories are going to the polls on Tuesday with 1,351 candidates in the fray.
