New Delhi: Voters in eight states and Union Territories to take part in the fifth phase of the 18th Lok Sabha Elections 2024 on Monday, May 20. 49 Lok Sabha constituencies including 14 in Uttar Pradesh, 13 in Maharashtra, 7 in West Bengal, 5 each in Bihar and Odisha, 3 in Jharkhand and 1 each in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are going for polls in the fifth phase. The first phase of voting took place on April 19 in which 102 Lok Sabha constituencies went to polls while the second phase was completed on April 26 in which voters in 88 seats used their franchise. The third phase of voting with 93 seats in 11 states and UTs took place peacefully on May 7 while the fourth phase was completed successfully on May 13. Results for all seats will be declared on June 4.
Several key candidates are in the fray in the fifth phase. In Uttar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, Kaushal Kishore, Dinesh Pratap Singh, Anurag Sharma, RK Singh Patel, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Lallu Singh, Karan Bhushan Singh and Kirti Vardhan Singh, Congress candidates Rahul Gandhi, Kishori Lal Sharma, Pradeep Jain Aditya and Tanuj Punia, Samajwadi Party (SP) candidates Naresh Uttam Patel, Ravidas Mehrotra, Krishna Devi Patel, RK Chaudhary, Shreya Verma and Pushpendra Saroj are contesting the elections. The SP and Congress are in alliance in UP. Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has fielded Nanhe Singh Chauhan and Thakur Prasad Yadav from the Amethi and Rae Bareli constituencies respectively.
In Maharashtra, BJP’s Piyush Goyal, Ujjwal Nikam, Subhash Bhamre, Bharati Pawar and Kapil Patil are some key candidates. Hemant Godse, Shrikant Shinde, Ravindra Waikar and Rahul Shewale of Shiv Sena and Anil Desai, Anant Geete, Arvind Sawant, Rajan Vichare and Sanjay Dina Patil of Shiv Sena (UBT) are also in the fray. Congress leaders Varsha Gaikwad and Dr Shobha Dinesh Bachhav are also vying to enter the Lok Sabha.
West Bengal will witness a close fight in the fifth phase with seven seats including Bangaon, Barrackpore, Howrah, Uluberia, Sreerampur, Hooghly and Arambagh voting on May 20. Locket Chatterjee (BJP), Kalyan Banerjee (TMC), Shantanu Thakur (BJP), Prasun Banerjee (TMC), Sajda Ahmed (TMC) and Arjun Singh (BJP) are some of the key candidates. Five seats including Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Saran and Hajipur will vote on May 20.
Omar Abdullah (JKNC) and Sajad Gani Lone (JKPC) in Jammu and Kashmir, Rajiv Pratap Rudy (BJP), Rohini Acharya (RJD), Chirag Paswan (LJP-RV), Ali Ashraf Fatmi (RJD), Ashok Kumar Yadav (BJP), Devesh Chandra Thakur (JDU) and Ajay Nishad (Congress) in Bihar, Jual Oram (BJP), Dilip Kumar Tirkey (BJD), Achyuta Samanta (BJD), Anita Subhadarshini (BJP) and Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo (BJP) in Odisha, Annapurna Devi (BJP), Jai Prakash Bhai Patel (Congress) and Krishna Nand Tripathi (Congress) in Jharkhand and Tashi Gyalson (BJP) in Ladakh are other key candidates in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, the BJP-led NDA won 41 of these 49 seats (BJP 32, Shiv Sena 7, JDU 1 and LJP 1). The Congress-led UPA won 2 seats (Congress 1 and JKNC 1) and other parties won 6 seats (TMC 4 and BJD 2).
Complete list of 49 constituencies, key candidates going for Lok Sabha polls on May 20 in fifth phase:
| S. Number | Constituency | State/UT | Key Candidates/Parties | 2019 Lok Sabha Winner/Party |
| 1. | Mohanlalganj | Uttar Pradesh | Kaushal Kishore (BJP)
RK Chaudhary (SP)
Rajesh Kumar (BSP)
| Kaushal Kishore (BJP)
|
| 2. | Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | Rajnath Singh (BJP)
Ravidas Mehrotra (SP)
Mohammad Sarvar Malik (BSP)
| Rajnath Singh (BJP) |
| 3. | Rae Bareli | Uttar Pradesh | Rahul Gandhi (Congress)
Dinesh Pratap Singh (BJP)
Thakur Prasad Yadav (BSP)
| Sonia Gandhi (Congress) |
| 4. | Amethi | Uttar Pradesh | Smriti Zubin Irani (BJP)
Kishori Lal Sharma (Congress)
Nanhe Singh Chauhan (BSP)
| Smriti Zubin Irani (BJP) |
| 5. | Jalaun | Uttar Pradesh | Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma (BJP)
Narayan Das Ahirwar (SP)
Suresh Chandra Gautam (BSP)
| Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma (BJP) |
| 6. | Jhansi | Uttar Pradesh | Anurag Sharma (BJP)
Pradeep Jain Aditya (Congress)
Ravi Prakash (Congress)
| Anurag Sharma (BJP) |
| 7. | Hamirpur | Uttar Pradesh | Pushpendra Singh Chandel (BJP)
Ajendera Singh Rajput (SP)
Nirdosh Kumar Dixit (BSP)
| Pushpendra Singh Chandel (BJP) |
| 8. | Banda | Uttar Pradesh | RK Singh Patel (BJP)
Krishna Devi Patel (SP)
Mayank Dwivedi (BSP)
| RK Singh Patel (BJP)
|
| 9. | Fatehpur | Uttar Pradesh | Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti (BJP)
Naresh Uttam Patel (SP)
Manish Singh Sachan (BSP)
| Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti (BJP) |
| 10. | Kaushambi | Uttar Pradesh | Vinod Kumar Sonkar (BJP)
Pushpendra Saroj (SP)
Shubh Narayan (BSP)
| Vinod Kumar Sonkar (BJP) |
| 11. | Barabanki | Uttar Pradesh | Rajrani Rawat (BJP)
Tanuj Punia (Congress)
Shiv Kumar Doharey (BSP)
| Upendra Singh Rawat (BJP) |
| 12. | Faizabad | Uttar Pradesh | Lallu Singh (BJP)
Awadhesh Prasad (SP)
Sachidanand Pandey (BSP)
| Lallu Singh (BJP) |
| 13. | Kaiserganj | Uttar Pradesh | Karan Bhushan Singh (BJP)
Bhagat Ram Mishra (SP)
Narendra Pandey (BSP)
| Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh (BJP) |
| 14. | Gonda | Uttar Pradesh | Kirti Vardhan Singh (BJP)
Shreya Verma (SP)
Saurabh (BSP)
| Kirti Vardhan Singh (BJP) |
| 15, | Dhule | Maharashtra | Subhash Ramrao Bhamre (BJP)
Dr Shobha Dinesh Bachhav (Congress)
| Subhash Ramrao Bhamre (BJP) |
| 16. | Dindori | Maharashtra | Bharati Pravin Pawar (BJP)
Bhaskar Murlidhar Bhagare (NCP-Sharad Pawar)
| Bharati Pravin Pawar (BJP) |
| 17. | Nashik | Maharashtra | Hemant Tukaram Godse (Shiv Sena)
Rajabhau Prakash Waje (Shiv Sena-UBT)
| Hemant Tukaram Godse (Shiv Sena) |
| 18. | Palghar | Maharashtra | Hemant Vishnu Savara (BJP)
Bharti Bharat Kamdi (Shiv Sena-UBT)
| Rajendra Dhedya Gavit (Shiv Sena) |
| 19. | Bhiwandi | Maharashtra | Kapil Moreshwar Patil (BJP)
Suresh Gopinath Mhatre (NCP-Sharad Pawar)
| Kapil Moreshwar Patil (BJP) |
| 20. | Kalyan | Maharashtra | Shrikant Eknath Shinde (Shiv Sena)
Vaishali Darekar Rane (Shiv Sena-UBT)
| Shrikant Eknath Shinde (Shiv Sena) |
| 21. | Thane | Maharashtra | Naresh Ganpat Mhaske (Shiv Sena)
Rajan Baburao Vichare (Shiv Sena-UBT)
| Rajan Baburao Vichare (Shiv Sena) |
| 22. | Mumbai North | Maharashtra | Piyush Goyal (BJP)
Bhushan Patil (Congress)
| Gopal Shetty (BJP) |
| 23. | Mumbai North West | Maharashtra | Ravindra Waikar (Shiv Sena)
Amol Gajanan Kirtikar (Shiv Sena-UBT)
| Gajanan Kirtikar (Shiv Sena) |
| 24. | Mumbai North East | Maharashtra | Mihir Chandrakant Kotecha (BJP)
Sanjay Dina Patil (Shiv Sena-UBT)
| Manoj Kotak (BJP) |
| 25, | Mumbai North Central | Maharashtra | Ujjwal Nikam (BJP)
Varsha Gaikwad (Congress)
| Poonam Mahajan (BJP) |
| 26. | Mumbai South Central | Maharashtra | Rahul Ramesh Shewale (Shiv Sena)
Anil Desai (Shiv Sena-UBT)
| Rahul Ramesh Shewale (Shiv Sena) |
| 27. | Mumbai South | Maharashtra | Yamini Yashwant Jadhav (Shiv Sena)
Arvind Ganpat Sawant (Shiv Sena-UBT)
| Arvind Ganpat Sawant (Shiv Sena) |
| 28. | Bangaon | West Bengal | Shantanu Thakur (BJP)
Biswajit Das (TMC)
Pradip Biswas (Congress)
| Shantanu Thakur (BJP)
|
| 29. | Barrackpore | West Bengal | Arjun Singh (BJP)
Partha Bhowmick (TMC)
Debdut Ghosh (CPM)
| Arjun Singh (BJP) |
| 30. | Howrah | West Bengal | Prasun Banerjee (TMC)
Rathin Chakraborty (BJP)
Sabyasachi Chatterjee (CPM)
| Prasun Banerjee (TMC) |
| 31. | Uluberia | West Bengal | Sajda Ahmed (TMC)
Arunuday Paul Chowdhury (BJP)
Azahar Mallick (CPM)
| Sajda Ahmed (TMC) |
| 32. | Sreerampur | West Bengal | Kalyan Banerjee (TMC)
Kabir Sankar Bose (BJP)
Dipsita Dhar (CPM)
| Kalyan Banerjee (TMC) |
| 33. | Hooghly | West Bengal | Locket Chatterjee (BJP)
Rachna Banerjee (TMC)
Monodip Ghosh (CPM)
| Locket Chatterjee (BJP) |
| 34. | Arambagh | West Bengal | Arup Kanti Digar (BJP)
Mitali Bag (TMC)
Biplab Kumar Moitra (CPM)
| Aparupa Poddar (TMC) |
| 35. | Sitamarhi | Bihar | Devesh Chandra Thakur (JDU)
Arjun Ray (RJD)
| Sunil Kumar Pintu (JDU) |
| 36. | Madhubani | Bihar | Ashok Kumar Yadav (BJP)
Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi (RJD)
| Ashok Kumar Yadav (BJP) |
| 37. | Muzaffarpur | Bihar | Raj Bhushan Nishad (BJP)
Ajay Nishad (Congress)
| Ajay Nishad (BJP) |
| 38. | Saran | Bihar | Rajiv Pratap Rudy (BJP)
Rohini Acharya (RJD)
| Rajiv Pratap Rudy (BJP) |
| 39. | Hajipur | Bihar | Chirag Paswan (LJP-RV)
Shiv Chandra Ram (RJD)
| Pashupati Kumar Paras (LJP) |
| 40. | Bargarh | Odisha | Parineeta Mishra (BJD)
Pradip Purohit (BJP)
Sanjay Bhoi (Congress)
| Suresh Pujari (BJP) |
| 41, | Sundargarh | Odisha | Dilip Kumar Tirkey (BJD)
Jual Oram (BJP)
Janardan Dehury (Congress)
| Jual Oram (BJP) |
| 42. | Bolangir | Odisha | Surendra Singh Bhoi (BJD)
Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo (BJP)
Manoj Mishra (Congress)
| Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo (BJP) |
| 43. | Kandhamal | Odisha | Achyutananda Samanta (BJD)
Sukanta Kumar Panigrahi (BJP)
Amir Chand Nayak (Congress)
| Achyutananda Samanta (BJD) |
| 44. | Aska | Odisha | Ranjita Sahu (BJD)
Anita Subhadarshini (BJP)
Debakanta Sarma (Congress)
| Pramila Bisoyi (BJD) |
| 45. | Chatra | Jharkhand | Kalicharan Singh (BJP)
Krishna Nand Tripathi (Congress)
| Sunil Kumar Singh (BJP) |
| 46. | Kodarma | Jharkhand | Annapurna Devi (BJP)
Vinod Kumar Singh (CPI-ML)
| Annapurna Devi (BJP) |
| 47. | Hazaribagh | Jharkhand | Manish Jaiswal (BJP)
Jai Prakash Bhai Patel (Congress)
| Jayant Sinha (BJP) |
| 48. | Baramulla | Jammu and Kashmir | Omar Abdullah (JKNC)
Fayaz Ahmad Mir (JKPDP)
Sajad Gani Lone (JKPC)
Engineer Sheikh Abdul Rashid (Independent)
| Mohammad Akbar Lone (JKNC) |
| 49. | Ladkah | Ladakh | Tashi Gyalson (BJP)
Tsering Namgyal (Congress)
Mohammad Haneefa (Independent)
| Jamyang Tsering Namgyal (BJP) |