59 constituencies vote in phase 7 of Lok Sabha election: Know the parties which currently hold the seats

Polling will be held on Sunday in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha election in all 13 seats in Punjab, 13 seats in Uttar Pradesh, nine in West Bengal, eight seats each in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, four in Himachal Pradesh, three in Jharkhand and the lone seat Chandigarh.

Voting for the last and final phase of Lok Sabha election will be held on Sunday in 59 constituencies across seven states and one Union Territory. The campaigning for the last phase of the staggered Lok Sabha elections spread over more than a month drew to a close Friday. In West Bengal, the Election Commission had ordered the campaign to end on Thursday following violence involving Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers in Kolkata during a road show of BJP chief Amit Shah. 

Polling will be held on Sunday in the seventh phase in all 13 seats in Punjab, 13 seats in Uttar Pradesh, nine in West Bengal, eight seats each in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, four in Himachal Pradesh, three in Jharkhand and the lone seat Chandigarh. 

Of these 59 seats going to poll, the BJP is currently in power in 30 seats, Trinamool Congress is in power in 8 seats, Congress is in power in 5 seats, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) are in power in 4 seats each while Janata Dal United and Apna Dal are in power in one seat each. The two remaining seats - Dewas in Madhya Pradesh and Jadavpur in West Bengal were won by BJP's Manohar Untwal and Trinamool Congress's Dr Sugata Bose respectively in 2014 election - are currently vacant.

Here are the sitting MPs in these 59 seats:

STATE	LOK SABHA SEAT	PARTY	SITTING MP
SEVENTH PHASE – 59 CONSTITUENCIES
Bihar	ARRAH	BJP	Raj Kumar Singh
Bihar	BUXAR	BJP	Ashwini Kumar Choubey
Bihar	JAHANABAD	RLSP	Dr. Arun Kumar
Bihar	KARAKAT	RLSP	Upendra Kushwaha
Bihar	NALANDA	JDU	Kaushalendra Kumar
Bihar	PATALIPUTRA	BJP	Ram Kripal Yadav
Bihar	PATNA SAHIB	BJP	Shatrughan Prasad Sinha
Bihar	SASARAM	BJP	Chhedi Paswan
Himachal Pradesh	HAMIRPUR	BJP	Anurag Singh Thakur
Himachal Pradesh	KANGRA	BJP	Shanta Kumar
Himachal Pradesh	MANDI	BJP	Ram Swaroop Sharma
Himachal Pradesh	SHIMLA	BJP	Virender Kashyap
Jharkhand	DUMKA	JMM	Shibu Soren
Jharkhand	GODDA	BJP	Dr. Nishikant Dubey
Jharkhand	RAJMAHAL	JMM	Vijay Kumar Hansdak
Madhya Pradesh	DEWAS* (vacant)	BJP	Manohar Untwal*
Madhya Pradesh	DHAR	BJP	Savitri Thakur
Madhya Pradesh	INDORE	BJP	Sumitra Mahajan (Tai)
Madhya Pradesh	KHANDWA	BJP	Nand Kumar Singh Chauhan
Madhya Pradesh	KHARGONE	BJP	Subhash Patel
Madhya Pradesh	MANDSAUR	BJP	Sudheer Gupta
Madhya Pradesh	RATLAM	Congress	Kantilal Bhuria
Madhya Pradesh	UJJAIN	BJP	Prof. Chintamani Malviya
Punjab	AMRITSAR	Congress	Gurjeet Singh Aujla
Punjab	ANANDPUR SAHIB	SAD	Prem Singh Chandumajra
Punjab	BATHINDA	SAD	Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Punjab	FARIDKOT	AAP	Prof. Sadhu Singh
Punjab	FATEHGARH SAHIB	AAP	Harinder Singh Khalsa
Punjab	FIROZPUR	SAD	Sher Singh Ghubaya
Punjab	GURDASPUR	Congress	Sunil Kumar Jakhar
Punjab	HOSHIARPUR	BJP	Vijay Sampla
Punjab	JALANDHAR	Congress	Santokh Singh Chaudhary
Punjab	KHADOOR SAHIB	SAD	Ranjit Singh Brahmpura
Punjab	LUDHIANA	Congress	Ravneet Singh
Punjab	PATIALA	AAP	Dr. Dharam Vira Gandhi
Punjab	SANGRUR	AAP	Bhagwant Mann
West Bengal	BARASAT	TMC	Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
West Bengal	BASIRHAT	TMC	Idris Ali
West Bengal	DIAMOND HARBOUR	TMC	Abhishek Banerjee
West Bengal	DUM DUM	TMC	Prof. Saugata Roy
West Bengal	JADAVPUR* (vacant)	TMC	Dr. Sugata Bose
West Bengal	JAYNAGAR	TMC	Pratima Mondal
West Bengal	KOLKATA DAKSHIN	TMC	Subrata Bakshi
West Bengal	KOLKATA UTTAR	TMC	Sudip Bandyopadhyay
West Bengal	MATHURAPUR	TMC	Choudhury Mohan Jatua
Chandigarh	CHANDIGARH	BJP	Kirron Anupam Kher
Uttar Pradesh	BALLIA	BJP	Bharat Singh
Uttar Pradesh	BANSGAON	BJP	Kamlesh Paswan
Uttar Pradesh	CHANDAULI	BJP	Mahendra Nath Pandey
Uttar Pradesh	DEORIA	BJP	Kalraj Mishra
Uttar Pradesh	GHAZIPUR	BJP	Manoj Kumar Sinha
Uttar Pradesh	GHOSI	BJP	Hari Narayan Rajbhar
Uttar Pradesh	GORAKHPUR	BJP	Praveen Kumar Nishad
Uttar Pradesh	KUSHI NAGAR	BJP	Rajesh Pandey
Uttar Pradesh	MAHARAJGANJ	BJP	Pankaj Chowdhary
Uttar Pradesh	MIRZAPUR	Apna Dal	Anupriya Patel
Uttar Pradesh	ROBERTSGANJ	BJP	Chhotelal
Uttar Pradesh	SALEMPUR	BJP	Ravindra Kushawaha
Uttar Pradesh	VARANASI	BJP	Narendra Modi

This phase will see voting in Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He is pitted against Congress candidate Ajay Rai, Samajwadi Party nominee Shalini Yadav and 23 others. One more high profile seat where voting will be held on May 19 is Patna Sahib where incumbent Lok Sabha MP Shatrughan Sinha is challenging his former party colleague and Union Law and Justice and Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. Sinha had won from Patna Sahib in 2009 and 2014 Lok Sabha elections on a BJP ticket but quit the party in March 2019 and joined the Congress.

The high octane campaign was marked by vitriolic attacks and counter-attacks by political leaders and use of derogatory language and objectionable remarks. The postal ballots, electronic voting machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines will be opened on May 23 at 8 am. The results will be declared after the counting of votes.