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<\/div>\nPolling in the second phase of the Lok Sabha election is being held today<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\n
The second phase of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 will see crores of people cast votes in 88 seats across India.<\/p>\n
Many key and high-profile seats where voting will be held in the second phase include Wayanad, Bangalore South, Mathura, Mysore, and Thiruvananthapuram, to name a few.<\/p>\n
How did some of these key seats vote in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections?<\/p>\n
In Bangalore Central, the BJP’s PC Mohan won by over six lakh votes to his nearest rival, the Congress’s Rizwan Arshad, who polled 5.3 lakh votes.<\/p>\n
In Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura, the BJP’s Hema Malini received 6.71 lakh votes, against her nearest rival Kunwar Narendra Singh of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), who polled 3.7 lakh votes.<\/p>\n
In Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, the Congress’s Shashi Tharoor won with 4.16 lakh votes, while BJP’s Kummanam Rajasekharan was the runners-up.<\/p>\n
In Karnataka’s Mysore, the BJP’s Pratap Simha won the election after polling 6.9 lakh votes. The Congress’s CH Vijayashankar was the runners-up.<\/p>\n
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi won from Kerala’s Wayanad in 2019; he polled 7 lakh votes. His nearest rival PP Suneer from the Communist Part of India came second with 2.7 lakh votes.<\/p>\n
In Madhya Pradesh, BJP leader Virendra Kumar Khatik is eyeing a fourth win from Tikamgarh. The Congress has fielded a new face, Pankaj Ahirwar, from the constituency. In 2019, Mr Khatik defeated Congress’s Kiran Ahirwar by a margin of over 3.48 lakh votes.<\/p>\n
Staggered over seven stages, the first phase of the elections held last Friday for 102 seats across 21 states and Union Territories saw a voter turnout of around 65.5 per cent.<\/p>\n
Polling is scheduled in all 20 seats of Kerala, 14 of the 28 seats in Karnataka, 13 seats in Rajasthan, 8 seats each in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, 7 seats in Madhya Pradesh, 5 seats each in Assam and Bihar, 3 seats each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, and 1 seat each in Manipur, Tripura, and Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n
Votes will be counted on June 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n