The voting for the Second Phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2019 was held on April 18, 2019 in 95 Lok Sabha Constituencies across 12 States and 1 Union Territory.
The voting for Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Phase II was held for some parliamentary constituencies of Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
Note: Initially, the voting for the Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Phase II was scheduled to be held for 97 Constituencies; however, the polling for Vellore Parliamentary Constituency and Tripura East Parliamentary Constituency was deferred.
Around 1.4 crore electors voted in 8 Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh in Phase –II to decided the fate of 85 candidates. The constituencies that went to poll in second phase were - Nagina, Amroha, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Hathras, Mathura, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri.
Agra is the largest Phase - II constituency in Uttar Pradesh with 1904706 voters. Over 16000 polling stations will facilitate voting in the State during second phase.
In Tamil Nadu, over 6 crore voters casted their votes for 38 Parliamentary constituencies and for bypolls to 18 Assembly constituencies. All of Tamil Nadu except Vellore constituency went to polls in the second phase.
In Chhattisgarh, Mahasamund, Rajnandgaon and Kanker constituencies went to polls during Phase 2 of Lok Sabha Elections 2019. The Mahasamund and Rajnandgaon Constituencies are for general category while Kanker is reserved for the Schedule Tribes.
In Karnataka, elections were held for 14 out of 28 Lok Sabha seats in Phase 2 to decide the fate of 241 candidates, of which 17 are women. There were 30,410 polling stations in the state in this phase.
Key takeaways of Second Phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2019
• Over 15 crore 79 lakh and 34 thousand voters voted to decide fate of 1629 candidates
• Over 1 lakh 81 thousand polling booths were made ready for smooth conduct of polls
• Ove 11000 Third Gender voters casted ballots
| Second Phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2019 | |||||||
|
State/UT |
Number of Parliamentary Constituencies |
Total voters
|
Male Voters |
Female Voters |
Third Gender Voters |
Number of Contesting Candidates |
Polling Booths |
| Assam | 5 | 6910592 | 3554460 | 3355952 | 180 | 50 | 8992 |
| Bihar | 5 | 8552274 | 4492599 | 4059375 | 300 | 68 | 8644 |
| Chhattisgarh | 3 | 4895719 | 2432554 | 2463102 | 63 | 36 | 6484 |
| Jammu & Kashmir | 2 | 2960027 | 1543571 | 1416387 | 69 | 24 | 4426 |
| Karnataka | 14 | 26338277 | 13352234 | 12983284 | 2759 | 241 | 30410 |
| Maharashtra | 10 | 18546036 | 9694373
| 8851390 | 273 | 179 | 20321
|
| Manipur | 1 | 928626 | 447843 | 480751 | 32 | 11 | 1300 |
| Odisha | 5 | 7693123 | 3945025 | 3747493
| 605
| 35 | 9117 |
| Tamil Nadu | 39 | 59869758 | 29594923 | 30269045 | 5790 | 845 | 67664 |
| Tripura | 1 | 1257944 | 637649 | 620291 | 4 | 10 | 1645 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 8 | 14076635 | 7583431 | 6492326 | 878 | 70 | 16162 |
| West Bengal | 3 | 4932346 | 2522887 | 2409372 | 87 | 42 | 5390 |
| Puducherry | 1 | 973161 | 459266 | 513799 | 96 | 18 | 970 |
| Total | 97 | 157934518 | 80260815 | 77662567 | 11136 | 1629 | 181525 |
| Total States/UTs in Phase 2 | 13 | ||||||
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