Announcing poll schedules, the Chief Election Commissioner, CEC, V S Sampath said that the Assembly elections in Sikkim, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh will be held simultaneously with Lok Sabha polls. Election for 119 seats of Andhra Pradesh Assembly will be held on 30 April and for 175 seats on 7th May.

Odisha Assembly will also witness two phase poll with 70 seats going to polls on 10th April and 77 on 17th April. Polling for all 32 Assembly seats in Sikkim will be held on 12th of April.

Mr. Sampath said that voters enrollment has already been updated and about 81.4 crore voters have enrolled their names in the list so far.

CEC said that approximately nine lakh thirty thousand polling stations across the country will be set up for voting at 543 Lok Sabha constituencies in nine polling days.