59 constituencies vote in phase 6 of Lok Sabha election: Know the parties which currently hold the seats

Fifty nine seats across seven states will go to polls in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha election on 12 May. Voting in phase 6 is being held in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in Haryana, 8 each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, all seven seats in Delhi and 4 in Jharkhand.

The key candidates in the fray include Union Ministers Radha Mohan Singh, Maneka Gandhi and Harsh Vardhan. Other big BJP names are Manoj Tiwari, Meenakshi Lekhi, cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir and popular Punjabi folk singer Hans Raj Hans.

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From the Congress, prominent candidates contesting in phase 6 are former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit from North East Delhi, Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna, boxer-turned-politician Vijender Singh. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is also contesting from Azamgarh - a seat which his father Mulayam Singh Yadav had won in the 2014 election.

In the current Lok Sabha, the BJP is in power in 44 of these 59 seats while the Trinamool Congress holds 8 seats. The Congress and Indian National Lok Dal are in power in 2 seats each while Apna Dal, Lok Janshakti Party and Samajwadi Party are in power in one seat each. Here is the full list of sitting MPs in the seats going to polls in phase 6:

SERIAL NUMBER	STATE	LOK SABHA SEAT	PARTY	SITTING MP
SIXTH PHASE – 59 CONSTITUENCIES
1	Bihar	GOPALGANJ	BJP	Janak Ram
2	Bihar	MAHARAJGANJ	BJP	Janardan Singh Sigriwal
3	Bihar	PASCHIM CHAMPARAN	BJP	Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal
4	Bihar	PURVI CHAMPARAN	BJP	Radha Mohan Singh
5	Bihar	SHEOHAR	BJP	Rama Devi
6	Bihar	SIWAN	BJP	Om Prakash Yadav
7	Bihar	VAISHALI	LJP	Rama Kishore Singh
8	Bihar	VALMIKI NAGAR	BJP	Satish Chandra Dubey
9	Haryana	AMBALA	BJP	Rattan Lal Kataria
10	Haryana	BHIWANI–MAHENDRAGARH	BJP	Dharambir Singh
11	Haryana	FARIDABAD	BJP	Krishan Pal Gurjar
12	Haryana	GURGAON	BJP	Rao Inderjit Singh
13	Haryana	HISAR	INLD	Dushyant Chautala
14	Haryana	KARNAL	BJP	Ashwini Kumar
15	Haryana	KURUKSHETRA	BJP	Raj Kumar Saini
16	Haryana	ROHTAK	Congress	Deepender Singh Hooda
17	Haryana	SIRSA	INLD	Charanjeet Singh Rori
18	Haryana	SONIPAT	BJP	Ramesh Chander Kaushik
19	Jharkhand	DHANBAD	BJP	Pashupati Nath Singh
20	Jharkhand	GIRIDIH	BJP	Ravindra Kumar Pandey
21	Jharkhand	JAMSHEDPUR	BJP	Bidyut Baran Mahato
22	Jharkhand	SINGHBHUM	BJP	Laxman Giluwa
23	Madhya Pradesh	BHIND	BJP	Bhagirath Prasad
24	Madhya Pradesh	BHOPAL	BJP	Alok Sanjar
25	Madhya Pradesh	GUNA	Congress	Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
26	Madhya Pradesh	GWALIOR	BJP	Narendra Singh Tomar
27	Madhya Pradesh	MORENA	BJP	Anoop Mishra
28	Madhya Pradesh	RAJGARH	BJP	Rodmal Nagar
29	Madhya Pradesh	SAGAR	BJP	Laxmi Narayan Yadav
30	Madhya Pradesh	VIDISHA	BJP	Sushma Swaraj
31	Uttar Pradesh	ALLAHABAD	BJP	Shyama Charan Gupta
32	Uttar Pradesh	AMBEDKAR NAGAR	BJP	Hari Om Pandey
33	Uttar Pradesh	AZAMGARH	BJP	Mulayam Singh Yadav
34	Uttar Pradesh	BASTI	BJP	Harish Dwivedi
35	Uttar Pradesh	BHADOHI	BJP	Virendra Singh
36	Uttar Pradesh	DOMARIYAGANJ	BJP	Jagdambika Pal
37	Uttar Pradesh	JAUNPUR	BJP	Krishna Pratap Singh
38	Uttar Pradesh	LALGANJ	BJP	Neelam Sonker
39	Uttar Pradesh	MACHHLISHAHR	BJP	Ram Charitra Nishad
40	Uttar Pradesh	PHULPUR	SP	Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel
41	Uttar Pradesh	PRATAPGARH	Apnal Dal	Kunwar Haribansh Singh
42	Uttar Pradesh	SANT KABIR NAGAR	BJP	Sharad Tripathi
43	Uttar Pradesh	SHRAWASTI	BJP	Daddan Mishra
44	Uttar Pradesh	SULTANPUR	BJP	Feroze Varun Gandhi
45	West Bengal	BANKURA	TMC	Dev (Moon Moon Sen) Varma
46	West Bengal	BISHNUPUR	TMC	Saumitra Khan
47	West Bengal	GHATAL	TMC	Deepak (Dev) Adhikari
48	West Bengal	JHARGRAM	TMC	Uma Saren
49	West Bengal	KANTHI	TMC	Sisir Kumar Adhikari
50	West Bengal	MEDINIPUR	TMC	Sandhya Roy
51	West Bengal	PURULIA	TMC	Dr. Mriganka Mahato
52	West Bengal	TAMLUK	TMC	Dibyendu Adhikari
53	NCT of Delhi	CHANDNI CHOWK	BJP	Harsh Vardhan
54	NCT of Delhi	EAST DELHI	BJP	Maheish Girri
55	NCT of Delhi	NEW DELHI	BJP	Meenakashi Lekhi
56	NCT of Delhi	NORTH EAST DELHI	BJP	Manoj Kumar Tiwari
57	NCT of Delhi	NORTH WEST DELHI	BJP	Dr. Udit Raj
58	NCT of Delhi	SOUTH DELHI	BJP	Ramesh Bidhuri
59	NCT of Delhi	WEST DELHI	BJP	Parvesh Sahib Singh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah have led the party's poll campaign holding rallies across the seats going to polls in the sixth phase. While Uttar Pradesh has seen the most number of rallies and road shows by the two since March 26, West Bengal comes second.

Voting in 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 42 in West Bengal, 40 seats in Bihar is being held in all 7 phases. Voting in Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh is being held in four phases while all 10 seats in Haryana and 7 in Delhi will be voting in a single phase on 12 May.

At least 979 candidates are in the fray in the sixth phase for which over 10 crore 16 lakh people will be eligible to cast their votes. Of these, 223 are contesting in Haryana, 177 in Uttar Pradesh, 164 in Delhi, 127 in Bihar, 138 in Madhya Pradesh, 83 in West Bengal and 67 in Jharkhand.

The Election Commission has set up over 1 lakh 13 thousand polling stations in place for smooth conduct of polls.