The elections to the 16th Lok Sabha, spread over nine phases, will begin from 7th April and will continue till 12th May. The counting will take place on 16th May. The first polling day on April 7 will cover five Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam and one in Tripura while the second on the 9th of April will cover seven constituencies spread over Arunachal pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland.

92 constituencies in 14 states including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Kerela, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra will go to polls on the 10th of April. Five constituencies in three states including Assam, will be covered on the fourth day on April 12.

122 Lok Sabha seats will go to polls in 13 states on April 17, the fifth day of the poll. The states included in this phase are Karnataka, Rajashthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh , Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Bihar.

The sixth phase will witness polling in 117 seats in 12 states including Assam, Chhattishgarh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh on April 24.

The seventh day of polling on April 30 will choose representatives in 89 constituencies spread over nine states including Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

64 seats in seven including Bihar, Himanchal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal will be covered in 8th phase on 7th May. Polling will come to an end on 12th May with elections in 41 constituencies in Chhattishgarh, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

Notification for the first phase will be issued on 14th March and last and the ninth phase on 17th of April.