As the country inches close to the third phase of voting in the ongoing elections for the Lok Sabha, the complete list of candidates contesting the polls has been issued by the Election Commission of India. The country’s public will decide the fate of some of the most influential politicians of this election including that of home minister Amit Shah who is contesting from Gandhinagar (Gujarat).
Other prominent leaders whose near future will be decided on Tuesday include Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Badruddin Ajmal, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Basavaraj Bommai, and Pralhad Joshi.
In Gandhinagar, Shah will compete with 13 others including Umadiya Alibhai Rajabhai, Navsadalam Ibrahimbhai Malek, Mansuri Suhana, Parikh Rajivbhai Kalabhai, Pathan Imtiyajkhan, Shahnawazkhan Sultankhan Pathan, Maurya Sumitra Devnarian, Mohammedanish Desai, Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta, Thakor Jitendrasinh Jashavantsinh, and Congress’ Sonal Ramanbhai Patel. Among these, Shah and Imtiyajkhan have maximum number of criminal cases against them – three. Except for Malek who has one case against him, all the other candidates are free of any criminal cases right now.
Among a total of 1352 candidates in this phase, a total of 244 have criminal cases against them (18%) while 392 own assets worth more than a crore rupees. This phase has a low women candidate ratio with mere 123 women candidates.
The third phase of voting will decide the fate candidates for 94 Lok Sabha seats spread across 12 states and Union territories including two seats from Goa, seven seats from Chhattisgarh and 26 seats of Gujarat, apart from 14 seats from Karnataka. The fate of two Parliament seats from Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu will also be decided in this phase.
Here is a complete list of all the constituencies going to polls on Tuesday, May 7:
Assam: Guwahati, Dhubri, Barpeta, and Kokrajhar
Bihar: Supaul, Jhanjharpur, Madhepura, Araria, and Khagaria
Chhattisgarh: Raigarh, Sarguja, Janjgir-Champa, Durg, Korba, Raipur, and Bilaspur
Goa: South Goa, North Goa
Gujarat: Gandhinagar, Kachchh, Patan, Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Mahesana, Rajkot, Ahmedabad East, Porbandar, Ahmedabad West, Jamnagar, Surendranagar, Junagadh, Bhavnagar, Amreli, Anand, Dahod, Kheda, Panchmahal, Vadodara, Bharuch, Chhota Udaipur, Bardoli, Valasad, Surat, Navsari
Karnataka: Uttara Kannada, Chikkodi, Bagalkot, Gulbarga, Bijapur, Raichur, Koppal,
Bidar, Belgaum, Bellary, Shimoga, Haveri, Davangere, Dharwad
Madhya Pradesh: Bhopal, Guna, Bhind, Gwalior, Rajgarh, Morena, Vidisha and Sagar
Maharashtra: Latur, Satara, Baramati, Osmanabad, Solapur, Madha, Raigad, Sangli, Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg, Hatkanangle and Kolhapur
Uttar Pradesh: Hathras, Agra, Sambhal, Fatehpur Sikri, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Budaun, Etah, Bareilly and Aonla
West Bengal: Murshidabad, Jangipur, Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin