889 candidates to contest elections across 8 States/UTs going for polls in Phase 6 of Lok Sabha Elections 2024

  1978 Nomination forms filed for 57 PCs across 7 States/UTs for Phase 6 New Delhi. Asal Baat News. 889 candidates from 8 States/UTs to cont...

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1978 Nomination forms filed for 57 PCs across 7 States/UTs for Phase 6

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Asal Baat News.

889 candidates from 8 States/UTs to contest elections in Phase-6 of Lok Sabha Elections 2024. This includes 20 contesting candidates for the adjourned poll in 3-Anantnag-Rajouri PC of Jammu and Kashmir.

A total of 1978 nominations were filed for 57 PCs across the 7 States/UTs going for polls in this phase. The last date for filing nominations for phase 6 for all 07 States/UTs (excluding adjourned poll in PC 3- Anantnag-Rajouri of Jammu & Kashmir) was May 06, 2024. After the scrutiny of all nominations filed, 900 nominations were found to be valid. In 3-Anantnag-Rajouri, total 28 nominations were filed in Phase 3 and 21 nominations were found to be valid.

 

In phase-6, Uttar Pradesh had a maximum of 470 nomination forms from 14 Parliamentary Constituencies, followed by Haryana with 370 nominations from 10 PCs. 8-Ranchi Parliamentary Constituency in Jharkhand received the maximum of nominations with 70 forms filed followed by 2-North East Delhi PC in NCT of Delhi with 69 nomination forms. Average number of contesting candidates in a PC for 6th Phase is 15.

State/UT wise details for Phase 6 of General Election to Lok Sabha Election 2024:

 

State/UT	Number of PCs in sixth phase	Nomination forms received	Valid candidates after scrutiny	After withdrawal, final Contesting Candidates
Bihar	8	246	89	86
Haryana	10	370	239	223
Jammu and Kashmir*	1	-		20
Jharkhand	4	245	96	93
NCT OF Delhi	7	367	166	162
Odisha	6	130	65	64
Uttar Pradesh	14	470	164	162
West Bengal	8	150	81	79
Total	58	1978	900	889

*Adjourned Poll in PC 3-Anantnag-Rajouri of Jammu and Kashmir from phase 3 to phase 6