Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 3 Voting Live Updates: Polling for 93 seats today

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 3 Voting Live Updates: The polling will be held in 93 Lok Sabha constituencies across 11 states and Union Territories in the third phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 today. As many as 1,331 candidates are in the fray in the phase 3 polls, the Elections Commission of India said.

Fate of over 283 Lok Sabha seats would be sealed after the third phase is over today. This means elections to more than half of the 543 Lok Sabha seats will be over in the first three phases.

Voting begins at 7 am and ends at 6 pm.  Voting will be completed in Gujarat and Goa states and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Union territories on Tuesday. Also with 14 seats voting in this phase, voting for all 28 seats of Karnataka will also be over today. With seven seats voting today, the Lok Sabha Election for 11 seats of Chhattisgarh will also be over. 

Among the other seats third phase are four in Assam, five in Bihar, seven in Chhattisgarh, eight in Madhya Pradesh, 11 in Maharashtra, 10 in Uttar Pradesh and four in West Bengal. 

Among the key candidates whose fate will be sealed today include Union Home Minister Amit Shah who is contesting from Gandhinagar (Gujarat),  Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Vidisha (MP), Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna (MP) and Dimple Yadav from Mainpuri (UP), to name a few.

Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule taking on his nephew Ajit Pawar’s wife Sunetra Pawar from Baramati seat in Maharashtra is also a keenly-watched contest in third phase. 

Union Ministers Mansukh Mandaviya (Porbandar), Parshottam Rupala (Rajkot) and Pralhad Joshi (Dharwad) are also in the fray in this phase of polling.

As many as 17.24 crore voters are eligible to vote in the third phase. Around 18.5 lakh Polling officials have been deployed across 1.85 lakh polling stations, the poll panel said. There are over 14.04 lakh registered 85+ year-old voters. Another 39,599 voters are above 100 years of age in phase 3 polling.

The first two phases of elections were held on April 19 and 26. The remaining phases will be held on May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1. The counting of votes for all seven phases of Lok Sabha Elections will take place on June 4.

Overall, voting for 543 Lok Sabha seats will be held in seven phases. The last phase will be held on June 1. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which is seeking a record third term under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has set a target of winning 400 seats this election. The ruling alliance is challenged by the opposition parties led by the Congress under the banner of the INDIA bloc.