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With elections announced about 15-crore voters I India’s biggest state Uttar Pradesh will elect representatives on 403 assembly seats in the next two-months.
Elections have been announced in five states and a total of 690 constituencies will vote, with the maximum in UP (403 seats) followed by Punjab (117), Uttarakhand (70), Manipur (60) and Goa (40). The first five phases of the elections will be conducted in February month. The phase one on February 10 will have Shamli, Meerut, Mujafarnagar, Bagpat, Meerut, Gaziabad, Bulandshahr, Mathura, Agra and Aligarh to vote. Phase two on February 14 will have Saharanpur, Bijnor, Amroha, Sambhal, Moraadabad, Rampur, Breilly, Badaun, Shahjahanpur to vote.
Third phase on February 20 will have Kasganj, Hathras, Firojabad, Etah, Mainpuri, Farukhabad, Kannauj, Etawah, Oraiyya, Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Mahoba, Jhansi, lalitpur.
Fourth phase on February 23 will have voters in Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Khiri, Sitapur, Hardoi, Lucknow, Unnao, Rae Bareilly, fatehpur, banda going to poll.
Fifth phase on February 27 has Shrawasti, Bahraich, barabanki, Gonda, Ayodhya, Amethi, Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Chitrakoot, prayagraj in the election fray. IN the sixth phase on March 3 Balrampur, Siddharthnagar, Maharajganj, Kushinagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Ambedkar Nagar, Gorakhpur, Deoria, Balia will vote.
In the seventh and last phase on March 7 Azamgarh, Mau, Gazipur, Jaunpur, Sant Ravidas Nagar, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Gazipur, Chandauli, Sonebhadra will vote.
UP has 15,02,84,005 voters. Recently in the voter list revision 5280882 new voteers were added including 23,92,258 male and 28,86,988 female and 1636 others. New voters in the age group of 18 and 19 are 146470.
