The Election Commission of India(ECI)have announced on Wednesday March 05,2014 a 9-phase polling for the 16th Lok Sabha Election scheduled to be held between April 07 -May 12,2014
Union Territories To Have Polls on April 10,April 24 and April 30 and the details are -
- Andaman - April 10
- Chandigarh - April 10
- Dadra Nagar Haveli - April 30
- Daman and Diu - April 30
- Lakshadweep - April 10
- NCT OF Delhi - April 10
- Puducherry - April 24
Puducherry comprises 30 assembly segments and has a total electorate of 8.85 lakh.
Minister of State in PMO V Narayanaswamy, who made his Lok Sabha debut winning the seat as a undivided Congress candidate in 2009
The ruling AINRC headed by Chief Minister N Rangaswamy are expected to fight it out for the lone Lok Sabha seat in this union territory that goes to the polls on April 24, along with Tamil Nadu.This is the first election for the ruling AINRC that came into power in 2011 assembly election.
AIADMK led by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, has already named M V Omalingam as its candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha Election
PMK, which is likely to strike a poll pact with BJP, has also named its nominee for the coming poll.
M Karunanidhi's DMK and BJP are yet to make known their plans for Puducherry
2014 Lok Sabha Election -Chandigarh Thursday April 10,2014
Chandigarh turned out to vote in huge numbers - a record in its history. The poll percentage at the time of filing this report had nearly touched the 74 %
The voting percentage in 2009 was 65.5 %
Voters had started queuing at the 519 polling stations early in the day.
Among prominent voters who turned up early were Congress nominee and former Railway Minister Pawan Bansal and his wife Madhu.
AAP's
Gul Panag and BJP's Kirron Kher couldn't cast their votes as they are
enrolled in Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, and Andheri West, Mumbai,
respectively. However, Kirron accompanied her 101-year-old father Col (retired) Thakur Singh to the polling station.
"I had never thought one day I would see my father vote for me. It is an honour to come with him," she said.
Kirron Kher's husband actor Anupam Kher was seen visiting many polling booths across the city, urging people to vote for Kirron.
"The time is now for the governance we deserve, to root out corruption and play a larger role in our democracy," Gul Panag said.
Congress nominee Pawan Bansal was also seen at various polling stations
2014 Lok Sabha Election -Delhi
Poll Date -April 10,2014
The Congress renominated five of its seven sitting Members of Parliament from Delhi — Union Ministers Kapil Sibal and Krishna Tirath, party general-secretary Ajay Maken, Chief Whip Sandeep Dikshit and J.P. Aggarwal
One third candidates in Delhi poll fray are crorepatis
One-third of the 150 candidates who are in the fray for seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital are crorepatis with Union minister Kapil Sibal being the richest of them with assets worth over Rs 114 crore
Kapil Sibal is followed by sitting MP and Congress candidate from West Delhi Mahabal Mishra (Rs 38 cr) and BJP's Meenakshi Lekhi (Rs 34 cr), who is contesting from New Delhi constituency.
Party-wise, all the seven candidates of Congress, six candidates each of BJP and AAP and three candidates of BSP have declared assets worth more than Rs 1 crore
As many as 11 candidates have more than Rs 10 crore worth of assets, while a total of 43 candidates have declared assets less than Rs 10 Lakh.A total of 50 candidates out of total 150 have declared liabilities
As many as 23 candidates have declared total annual income of over Rs 10 Lakhs. The total income includes income of self, spouse and dependents.
6 candidates with assets worth more than Rs 1 crore, have not declared their Income Tax Details, while 16 have not declared their PAN details.
77 candidates have educational qualification of class 12 or below while 65 are graduates or have higher degrees and four illiterate candidates in fray.
All the 7 Lok Sabha seats in Delhi will go to polls in which
an estimated 1.27 crore voters will decide the fate of a total of 150
candidates including Congress’ minister Kapil Sibal, former minister
Ajay Maken, Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan, former DPCC chief J.P.
Agarwal and Sandeep Dikshit, son of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila
Dikshit and BJP’s Meenakshi Lekhi and Bhojpuri singer Manoj Tiwari.
Voting for the Capital's 7 Lok
Sabha seats on Thursday April 10,2014 is seen as a litmus test of AAP's support base,
the BJP's claim of the 'Modi wave' and Congress's assertion that it was
regaining lost ground after the drubbing it received in last year's
Assembly polls.
Polling will be held in 11,763 polling stations out of which 327 have been declared critical and 90 hyper-critical.
Voting will start at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.
For the first time, Delhi residents will be able to exercise their franchise even if they do not have Electors Photo Identity Card (voter card) but have their names registered in the electoral roll.
In the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP had drawn a blank in the 2009 polls, while the Congress had won all the seven seats.
In the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the overall voting percentage was 52.3 per cent, which increased to 66 per cent in the 2013 Delhi assembly election.
A total of 150 candidates are in the fray, including 58 Independents, the contest in all constituencies is likely to be three-way among the BJP, the AAP and the Congress.
The contest also assumes greater significance as it may set the stage for the Assembly polls in Delhi later this year. This is the first time that the Capital is witnessing a triangular contest in the parliamentary elections with the emergence of the city-grown AAP.
The campaign saw main the BJP, Congress and AAP engage in a fierce race to woo the city's 1.27 crore voters. Though Delhi has only seven Lok Sabha seats, the outcome carries great significance.
For AAP, the election assumes greater significance as it will reflect people's support to it after the newbie created history in the December 4 ,2013 assembly polls by wresting 28 of the 70 seats and forming the government.
Constituency Candidates(INC Vs BJP Vs AAP)
Chandni Chowk Kapil Sibal Vs Harsh Vardhan Vs Ashutosh
East Delhi Sandeep Dikshit Vs Maheish Girri Vs Maheish GirriRajmohan Gandhi
New Delhi Ajay Maken Vs Meenakshi Lekhi Vs Ashish Khaitan
South Delhi Ramesh Kumar. Vs Ramesh Bidhuri Vs Devender Sehrawat
West Delhi Mahabal Mishra Vs Parvesh Sahib Singh Vs Jarnail Singh
North East Delhi J P Agarwal Vs Bhojpuri singer Manoj Tiwari Vs Anand Kumar
North West Delhi. Krishna Tirath Vs Udit Raj Vs Rakhi Birla
Polling will be held in 11,763 polling stations out of which 327 have been declared critical and 90 hyper-critical.
Voting will start at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.
For the first time, Delhi residents will be able to exercise their franchise even if they do not have Electors Photo Identity Card (voter card) but have their names registered in the electoral roll.
In the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP had drawn a blank in the 2009 polls, while the Congress had won all the seven seats.
In the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the overall voting percentage was 52.3 per cent, which increased to 66 per cent in the 2013 Delhi assembly election.
A total of 150 candidates are in the fray, including 58 Independents, the contest in all constituencies is likely to be three-way among the BJP, the AAP and the Congress.
The contest also assumes greater significance as it may set the stage for the Assembly polls in Delhi later this year. This is the first time that the Capital is witnessing a triangular contest in the parliamentary elections with the emergence of the city-grown AAP.
The campaign saw main the BJP, Congress and AAP engage in a fierce race to woo the city's 1.27 crore voters. Though Delhi has only seven Lok Sabha seats, the outcome carries great significance.
For AAP, the election assumes greater significance as it will reflect people's support to it after the newbie created history in the December 4 ,2013 assembly polls by wresting 28 of the 70 seats and forming the government.
Constituency Candidates(INC Vs BJP Vs AAP)
Chandni Chowk Kapil Sibal Vs Harsh Vardhan Vs Ashutosh
East Delhi Sandeep Dikshit Vs Maheish Girri Vs Maheish GirriRajmohan Gandhi
New Delhi Ajay Maken Vs Meenakshi Lekhi Vs Ashish Khaitan
South Delhi Ramesh Kumar. Vs Ramesh Bidhuri Vs Devender Sehrawat
West Delhi Mahabal Mishra Vs Parvesh Sahib Singh Vs Jarnail Singh
North East Delhi J P Agarwal Vs Bhojpuri singer Manoj Tiwari Vs Anand Kumar
North West Delhi. Krishna Tirath Vs Udit Raj Vs Rakhi Birla
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