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Lok Sabha elections 2019: First phase of polling across India today

Ninety-one constituencies across 20 states will poll in the first phase of the Lok Sabha election

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A salesman displays masks of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal at a shop in New Delhi on the eve of the first phase of polling | Photo: PTI

Archis Mohan New Delhi

1 min read Last Updated : Apr 11 2019 | 2:13 AM IST

India will hold a general election starting on Thursday in the World’s largest democratic exercise. The election will be held in seven phases until May19 and votes will be counted on May 23. Ninety-one constituencies across 20 states will poll in the first phase of the Lok Sabha election. Here are some of the highlights of the first phase:

142 million: Size of electorate, which includes 7,764 third-gender voters

1,279: Number of candidates in the fray

7%: Share of women candidates

170,664 polling booths

All the seats in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim will go to the polls
This is Telangana’s first Lok Sabha election after it was carved out of Andhra Pradesh
In addition, simultaneous polling will be held in single-phase Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim