Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Phase 3

Here is all the information you need to know about the constituencies that will be voting on May 7 and the well-known candidates as India prepares for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections.

Phase 3 Voting Details:

On May 7, the third round of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 will take place. There will be 93 seats up for grabs, distributed among 11 states and union territories. With 1,351 candidates running in this phase, it's an important point in the election process.

photo: phase 3 elections

Key Constituencies:

Assam: 4 of 14 seats, including Kokrajhar, Dhubri, Barpeta, and Guwahati.
Bihar: 5 of 40 seats, such as Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Araria, Madhepura, and Khagaria.
Chhattisgarh: 7 of 11 seats, including Surguja, Janjgir-Champa, Korba, Bilaspur, Durg, Raipur, and Raigarh.
Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu: All 2 seats, covering Daman and Diu, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Goa: all 2 seats, comprising North Goa and South Goa.
Gujarat: 25 seats, covering Kachchh, Banaskantha, Patan, Mahesana, Sabarkantha, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad East, Ahmedabad West, Surendranagar, Rajkot, Porbandar, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Anand, Kheda, Panchmahal, Dahod, Vadodara, Chhota Udaipur, Bharuch, Bardoli, Navsari, and Valsa.
Karnataka: 14 of 28 seats, including Chikkodi, Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Gulbarga, Raichur, Bidar, Koppal, Bellary, Haveri, Dharwad, Uttara Kannada, Davanagere, and Shimoga.
Madhya Pradesh: 9 of 29 seats, such as Morena, Gwalior, Guna, Sagar, Vidisha, Bhopal, Rajgarh, Bhind, and Betul.
Maharashtra: 11 of 48 seats, including Raigad, Baramati, Osmanabad, Latur, Solapur, Madha, Sangli, Satara, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Kolhapur, and Hatkanangle.
Uttar Pradesh: 10 of 80 seats, such as Sambhal, Hathras, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Badaun, Aonla, and Bareilly.
West Bengal: 4 of 42 seats, including Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin, Jangipur, and Murshidabad.

Key Candidates:

Amit Shah is running for reelection from Gandhinagar, Gujarat, with the goal of serving as the Union Home Minister for a second term.
Dimple Yadav is running for the Samajwadi Party; she is from Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh.
Jyotiraditya Scindia: The BJP fielded her in the Guna Lok Sabha seat in an attempt to win back support following the 2019 elections.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan: Running from Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha, he hopes to repeat as a victorious candidate after steering the BJP to victory in the state assembly elections.
Supriya Sule: Competing in Baramati, Maharashtra, she will go up against Ajit Pawar's wife, Sunetra Pawar, in a special "Pawar vs. Pawar" match.
KS Eshwarappa: Running as a rebel candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party from Shivamogga, Karnataka, and going against party directive.
Pralhad Joshi is running for reelection from Dharwad, Karnataka, with the intention of serving a fourth term.

Campaign Focus: Constitution and Reservation Debate

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP stepped up their attacks on the Congress and its allies in the India bloc during the last hours of Sunday's campaign, and the opposition leaders retaliated in kind.

photo: PM modi

Modi accused the Congress and the Samajwadi Party of engaging in "dynastic politics" and working only for the benefit of their own families. He expressed worries once more about the possible diluting of reservation quotas and accused the Congress of trying to use its 'Muslim vote bank' to obtain SC, ST, and OBC quotas.

Speaking at a rally in Telangana, Rahul Gandhi restated his accusation that Modi opposed reservations and that the BJP was trying to put an end to them. He highlighted how crucial it is to protect the Constitution and portrayed the elections as a conflict of ideologies.

photo: Rahul Gandhi

Prior to the third phase, the reservation issue dominated the campaign discourse, with the NDA and the India bloc making accusations and denials of it. The stakes are high, especially for the BJP and its allies, who want to hold onto their victories in areas where they have historically established a stronghold.

In the last Lok Sabha elections, the distribution of seats was as follows:

On May 7, Congress, parties connected to the INDIA alliance, and parties connected to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance won 12 of the 94 seats that were in contest.

In the 2019 elections, 80 seats went to the BJP and parties affiliated with the NDA. In Surat, where Mukesh Dalal of the BJP ran unopposed and has already been proclaimed the winner, the BJP also won.

Notably, in the 2019 elections, one independent candidate won a seat in Assam.

The union territory constituency of Dadra and Nagar Haveli was won by independent candidate Mohanbhai Sanjibhai Delkar. Regretfully, on February 22, 2021, Delkar went away. The seat was subsequently filled by Kalaben Delker of the Shiv Sena, which is aligned with the NDA, who won a by-election in 2021.

photo: general Election result 2019

These election results set the stage for the current electoral battle, with parties striving to consolidate their gains or regain lost ground as the nation heads to the polls once again.