{"id":505545,"date":"2024-03-16T19:30:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=505545"},"modified":"2024-04-16T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:56:07","slug":"up-bihar-bengal-2024-lok-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/elections\/up-bihar-bengal-2024-lok-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Lok Sabha elections: UP, Bihar, West Bengal to vote in 7 phases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal will vote in seven phases in the Lok Sabha elections 2024 as announced by the Election Commission of India on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the seven phases for the three States on April 19, April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1 in the Lok Sabha elections 2024, said EC during the press briefing on March 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uttar Pradesh alone sends 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha, while Bihar and West Bengal together send 82 members, 42 from Bengal, and 40 from Bihar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Schedule :General Election to Lok Sabha 2024<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ECI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ECI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GeneralElections2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GeneralElections2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2fjMIsxIw3\">pic.twitter.com\/2fjMIsxIw3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Election Commission of India (@ECISVEEP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ECISVEEP\/status\/1768948386487845240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, in 2019, West Bengal and Bihar were included in the seven-phased elections like Uttar Pradesh.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lok Sabha Elections 2024 are to be held in 7 phases from April 19 and the counting of votes on June 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By-elections to 26 Assembly constituencies are to be held alongside LS polls. Voting for 175 Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh on May 13 and counting of votes on June 4. Voting for 60 Assembly seats of Arunachal Pradesh and 32 of Sikkim on April 19. Voting for 32 Assembly seats in Sikkim on April 19 and voting for Odisha in two phases; for 42 seats is on May 25, and for 42 seats is on June 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term of the 17th Lok Sabha is due to expire on June 16, 2024. The terms of legislative Assemblies of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, and Sikkim are also due to expire on June 24. Assembly elections are also due in Jammu and Kashmir, the Chief Election Commissioner said during the briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Election Commissioner further said 96.8 crore are total electorates in the country. Out of this, 49.7 crore are male and 47.1 crore are female. Meanwhile, there are 1.8 crore first-time voters in these elections and 19.47 crore voters between the age group of 20-29 years, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the seven phases for the three States on April 19, April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1 in the Lok Sabha elections 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":505549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"2024 Lok Sabha elections: UP, Bihar, West Bengal to vote in 7 phases","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[162562,7,1497,125714],"tags":[11823,798,28950,830],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/16190845\/611d159878c4b00b7ea32c938f258324171058200818525_original-1.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505545"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=505545"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=505545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->