The second phase of Lok Sabha elections will begin on 18 April, Thursday, with polling in 95 constituencies in 12 states and Union Territories of the country.

The constituencies where polling will be held include 38 of the 39 seats in Tamil Nadu and the only seat from Puducherry.

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Polling will also be held in 5 seats each in Assam, Bihar and Odisha, 3 seats each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, 2 seats in Jammu-Kashmir, 1 seat in Manipur, 8 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 seats in Maharashtra, and 14 seats in Karnataka.

Polling is expected to begin by 8 am and end by 5 pm.

A total of 1596 candidates are in the fray for the 17th Lok Sabha from the 95 constituencies.

Among the key contestants from Karnataka in the second phase are former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda and his grandsons. BJP’s new firebrand leader Tejasvi Surya, too, is in the fray from Bangalore South and so is Congress’ stalwart M Veerappa Moily from Chikkaballapur.

In Tamil Nadu, the DMK+Congress allies are up against the ruling AIADMK+BJP alliance, which also includes Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK), Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC), Puthiya Tamizhagam (PT), and Puthiya Needhi Katchi (PNK).

Among the main contenders are P Chidambaram’s son Karti, DMK’s K Kanimozhi and Dayanidhi Maran, and BJP state president Tamilisai Soundararajan.

The Tripura East seat, where 10 candidates are in the fray, was also scheduled to go to polls on 18 April, but the election has been postponed over law and order concerns. On Wednesday, the Election Commission said polling on the seat would take place on April 23.

Here is a look at the seats where polling will take place on 18 April.

Assam

Constituency/ies that go to polls:

Karimganj, Silchar, Autonomous district, Mangaldoi, Nawgong

Number of contenders:

50 candidates

Main parties:

BJP, Congress, AIUDF

Key contest/s:

Karimganj – AIUDF’s Radheshyam Biswas versus Swarup Das of Congress

Mangaldoi – Dilip Saikia of BJP versus Bhubaneswar Kalita of Congress

Bihar

Constituency/ies that go to polls:

Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, Bhagalpur, Banka

Number of contenders:

68 candidates

Main parties:

BJP+JD(U)+LJP, Mahagathbandhan of RJD+Congress+others

Key contest/s:

Kishanganj – JD(U)’s Sayed Mahmood Ashraf versus Mohammed Javed of Congress

Bhagalpur – JD(U)’s Ajay Kumar Mandal versus RJD’s Bulo Mandal.

Chhattisgarh

Constituency/ies that go to polls:

Rajnandgaon, Mahasamund, Kanker

Number of contenders:

36 candidates

Main parties:

BJP, Congress

Key contest/s:

Rajnandgaon – Santosh Pandey of BJP versus Bholaram Sahu of Congress

Jammu and Kashmir

Constituency/ies that go to polls:

Srinagar, Udhampur

Number of contenders:

24 candidates

Main parties:

BJP, PDP, Congress and JKNC alliance; and JKNPP

Key contest/s:

Srinagar – Farooq Abdullah of National Conference versus BJP’s Khalid Jahangir versus Aga Syed Mohsin of PDP

Karnataka

Constituency/ies that go to polls:

Udupi Chikmagalur, Hassan, Dakshina Kannada, Chitradurga, Tumkur, Mandya, Mysore, Chamrajanagar, Bangalore Rural, Bangalore North, Bangalore Central, Bangalore South, Chikkaballapur, Kolar

Number of contenders:

241 candidates

Main parties:

BJP, Congress+JD(S)

Key contest/s:

Tumkur – HD Devegowda of JD(S) versus GS Basavaraju of BJP

Hassan – Prajwal Revanna of JD(S) versus A Manju of BJP

Mandya – Nikhil Kumaraswamy of JD(S) versus Sumalatha (Independent supported by BJP)

Chikkaballapur – M Veerappa Moily of Congress versus BN Bachchegowda of BJP

Bangalore South – Tejasvi Surya of BJP versus BK Hariprasad of Congress

Maharashtra

Constituency/ies that go to polls:

Buldhana, Akola, Amravati, Hingoli, Nanded, Parbhani, Beed, Osmanabad, Latur, Solapur

Number of contenders:

179 candidates

Main parties:

BJP+Shiv Sena and Congress+NCP

Key contest/s:

Beed – Pritam Gopinath Munde of BJP versus Bajrang Sonawane of NCP

Solapur – Jaysidhesvar Swami of BJP versus Sushil Kumar Shinde of Congress

Nanded – Pratap Patil Chikkalikar of BJP versus Ashok Chavan of Congress

Manipur

Constituency/ies that go to polls:

Inner Manipur

Number of contenders:

11 candidates

Main parties:

BJP, Congress, CPI(M)

Key contest/s:

Moirangthem Nara Singh of CPI(M) versus O Nabakishore Singh of Congress versus K Ranjan Singh of BJP

Odisha

Constituency/ies that go to polls:

Bargarh, Sundargarh, Bolangir, Kandhamal, Aska

Number of contenders:

37 candidates

Main parties:

BJP, Congress, BJD

Key contest/s:

Kandhamal – BJP’s MAK Swain versus Manoj Kumar Acharya of Congress versus Achyuta Samanta of BJD

Sundargarh – Jual Oram of BJP versus George Tirkey of Congress versus Sunita Biswal of BJD

Puducherry

Constituency/ies that go to polls:

Puducherry

Number of contenders:

18 candidates

Main parties:

Congress and All India NR Congress

Key contest/s:

Puducherry – Congress’ VE Vaithilingam versus BSP’s AG Pathimaraj versus All India NR Congress’s R Radhakrishnan

Tamil Nadu

Constituency/ies that go to polls:

Tirvallur, Chennai North, Chennai South, Chennai Central, Sriperumbudur, Kancheepuram, Arakkonam, Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Tiruvannamalai, Arani, Viluppuram, Kallakurichi, Salem, Namakkal, Erode, Tiruppur, Nilgiris, Coimbatore, Pollachi, Dindigul, Karur, Tiruchirapalli, Perambalur, Cuddalore, Chidambaram, Mayiladuthurai, Nagapattinam, Thanjavur, Sivaganga, Madurai, Theni, Virudhunagar, Ramanathapuram, Thoothukoodi, Tenkasi, Tirunelveli, Kanniyakumari

Number of contenders:

Around 836 candidates

Main parties:

BJP+AIADMK+Othrs and Congress+DMK

Key contest/s:

Sivaganga – H Raja of BJP versus Karti Chidambaram of Congress

Thoothukudi – BJP’s Tamilisai Soundararajan versus K Kanimozhi of DMK

Nilgiris – A Raja of DMK versus Thiyagarajan M of AIADMK

Chennai Central – Sam Paul of PMK versus Dayanidhi Maran of DMK

Uttar Pradesh

Constituency/ies that go to polls:

Nagina, Amroha, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Hathras, Mathura, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri

Number of contenders:

85 candidates

Main parties:

BJP, Congress, SP+BSP+RLD

Key contest/s:

Mathura – Hema Malini of BJP versus Narendra Singh of RLD versus Mahesh Pathak of Congress

Bulandshahr – BJP’s Bhola Singh versus Bansi Lal Pahadia of Congress versus Yogesh Verma of BSP

Agra – Manoj Kumar Soni of BSP versus Preeta Harit of Congress versus SP Singh Baghel of BJP

West Bengal

Constituency/ies that go to polls:

Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Raiganj

Number of contenders:

42 candidates

Main parties:

TMC, BJP, Congress

Key contest/s:

Raigunj – Deboshree Chaudhary of BJP versus Deepa Dasmunshi of Congress versus Kanai Lal Agarwal of TMC