<span style="color: #222222;">Scrutiny of nominations for the third phase of Lok Sabha elections was held on Friday and Monday is the last date for withdrawal of nominations. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">One hundred and fifteen seats, spread over 12 States and two Union Territories, will go to polls in this phase on 23 April. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">All parliamentary constituencies of Gujarat, Goa, Kerala, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu will go to polls in the third phase. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Voting in this phase will also take place for 14 seats each in Maharashtra and Karnataka, ten in Uttar Pradesh, seven in Chhattisgarh, six in Odisha, five each in Bihar and West Bengal, four in Assam, and one seat in Jammu and Kashmir. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In Gujarat, the total number of nominations filed for 26 Lok Sabha seats is 573.  As many as 82 candidates have filed their nominations for by-poll to four Assembly seats. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In Kerala, a total of 303 candidates filed their nominations for 20 Loksabha constituencies.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In Assam, 59 nominations have been found valid in the third phase. Three nominations have been rejected at Kokrajhar constituency after scrutiny. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In Goa, 16 candidates filed their papers for two parliamentary constituencies. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A total of 69 nominations were filed in Odisha for six Lok Sabha seats, while in Bihar, 114 candidates filed nomination for five parliamentary constituencies. In Karnataka, 317 candidates have filed 457 nominations for 14 constituencies.</span><br />''