95 constituencies vote in phase 2 of Lok Sabha election: Know the parties which currently hold the seats

While the election in Vellore has been cancelled following an EC order over allegations of excess use of money power, election in one seat in Tripura which was scheduled to be held on April 19 has been postponed to April 23 over law and order concerns.

Ninety five parliamentary constituencies across 11 states and 1 Union territory are voting in the second phase of Lok Sabha election on April 18. Polling is being held in 37 seats in Tamil Nadu, 14 seats in Karnataka, 10 in Maharashtra, eight in Uttar Pradesh, five each in Assam, Bihar and Odisha, three each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, two in Jammu and Kashmir and one seat each in Manipur and Puducherry.

While the election in Vellore has been cancelled following an EC order over allegations of excessive use of money power, election in one seat in Tripura which was scheduled to be held on April 18 has been postponed to April 23 over law and order concerns. Authorities in Vellore had seized over Rs 10 crore cash from the premises of an associate of a DMK leader recently. Elections will also be held in 35 assembly constituencies in Odisha. 

Major parties which currently hold these 97* seats (including Vellore and Tripura) are Bharatiya Janata Party and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) with 27 and 37 seats each. The election will be crucial for the AIADMK as this is the first Lok Sabha poll that is happening after the death of former party chief J Jayalalithaa.

Of the seats going to polls, the BJP is in power in eight seats of Uttar Pradesh, six seats in Karnataka, 4 seats in Maharashtra, 2 seats of Assam, 3 seats of Chhattisgarh, one seat each in Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.  

The Congress is in power in 12 of these 97* seats. These include 6 seats in Karnataka, 2 each in Assam, Maharashtra and one each in Bihar and Manipur. In Bihar's Kishanganj seat, Mohammad Asrarul Haque who won the last election died in December 2018.

Here is the full list of parties which currently hold the seats and the names of the sitting MPs:

SECOND PHASE – 95 CONSTITUENCIES
SERIAL NUMBER	STATE	LOK SABHA SEAT	PARTY	SITTING MPs
1	Assam	AUTONOMOUS DISTRICT	Congress	Biren Singh
2	Assam	KARIMGANJ	AIUDF	Radheshyam
3	Assam	MANGALDOI	BJP	Ramen Deka
4	Assam	NOWGONG	BJP	Rajen Gohain
5	Assam	SILCHAR	Congress	Sushmita Dev
6	Bihar	BANKA	RJD	JayPrakash Narayan Yadav
7	Bihar	BHAGALPUR	RJD	ShriShailesh (BuloMandal) Kumar
8	Bihar	KATIHAR	NCP	Tariq Anwar
9	Bihar	KISHANGANJ**	Congress	Mohammad Asrarul Haque (died in December 2018)
10	Bihar	PURNIA	JDU	Santosh Kumar
11	Chhattisgarh	KANKER	BJP	Vikram Usendi
12	Chhattisgarh	MAHASAMUND	BJP	Chandu Lal Sahu
13	Chhattisgarh	RAJNANDGAON	BJP	Abhishek Singh
14	Jammu and Kashmir	SRINAGAR	NC	Farooq Abdullah
15	Jammu and Kashmir	UDHAMPUR	BJP	Dr. Jitendra Singh
16	Karnataka	BANGALORE CENTRAL	BJP	PC Mohan
17	Karnataka	BANGALORE NORTH	BJP	DV Sadananda Gowda
18	Karnataka	BANGALORE RURAL	Congress	D. K. Suresh
19	Karnataka	CHAMARAJANAGAR	Congress	R Dhruvanarayana
20	Karnataka	CHIKBALLAPUR	Congress	M. Veerappa Moily
21	Karnataka	CHITRADURGA	Congress	BN Chandrappa
22	Karnataka	DAKSHINA KANNADA	BJP	Nalin Kumar Kateel
23	Karnataka	HASSAN	JD(S)	HD Deve Gowda
24	Karnataka	KOLAR	Congress	K.H. Muniyappa
25	Karnataka	MANDYA*	JD(S)	LR Shivaramegowda
26	Karnataka	MYSORE	BJP	Pratap Simha
27	Karnataka	TUMKUR	Congress	S. P. Muddahanumegowda
28	Karnataka	UDUPI CHIKMAGALUR	BJP	Shobha Karandlaje
29	Karnataka	BANGALORE SOUTH**	BJP	Ananth Kumar (died) November 2018
30	Maharashtra	AKOLA	BJP	Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre
31	Maharashtra	AMRAVATI	Shiv Sena	Anandrao Adsul
32	Maharashtra	BEED	BJP	Pritam Gopinathrao Munde
33	Maharashtra	BULDHANA	Shiv Sena	Prataprao Jadhav
34	Maharashtra	HINGOLI	Congress	Rajeev Satav
35	Maharashtra	LATUR	BJP	Dr. Sunil Baliram Gaikwad
36	Maharashtra	NANDED	Congress	Ashok Shankarrao Chavan
37	Maharashtra	OSMANABAD	Shiv Sena	Ravindra Vishwanath Gaikwad
38	Maharashtra	PARBHANI	Shiv Sena	Sanjay Haribhau Jadhav
39	Maharashtra	SOLAPUR	BJP	Sharad Bansode
40	Odisha	ASKA**	BJD	Ladu Kishore Swain (died in February 2019)
41	Odisha	BARGARH	BJD	Dr.Prabhas Kumar Singh
42	Odisha	BOLANGIR	BJD	Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo
43	Odisha	KANDHAMAL*	BJD	Pratyusha Rajeshwari Singh
44	Odisha	SUNDARGARH	BJP	Jual Oram
45	Tamil Nadu	ARAKKONAM	AIADMK	G. Hari
46	Tamil Nadu	ARANI	AIADMK	V. Elumalai
47	Tamil Nadu	CHENNAI CENTRAL	AIADMK	S. R. Vijayakumar
48	Tamil Nadu	CHENNAI NORTH	AIADMK	T. G. Venkatesh Babu
49	Tamil Nadu	CHENNAI SOUTH	AIADMK	Dr. J. Jayavardhan
50	Tamil Nadu	CHIDAMBARAM	AIADMK	M Chandrakasi
51	Tamil Nadu	COIMBATORE	AIADMK	P. Nagarajan
52	Tamil Nadu	CUDDALORE	AIADMK	A. Arunmozhithevan
53	Tamil Nadu	DHARMAPURI	PMK	Anbumani Ramadoss
54	Tamil Nadu	DINDIGUL	AIADMK	M. Udhayakumar
55	Tamil Nadu	ERODE	AIADMK	Selvakumara Chinnayan
56	Tamil Nadu	KALLAKURICHI	AIADMK	K.Kamaraj
57	Tamil Nadu	KANCHEEPURAM	AIADMK	K. Maragatham
58	Tamil Nadu	KANNIYAKUMARI	BJP	Pon Radhakrishnan
59	Tamil Nadu	KARUR	AIADMK	M. Thambidurai
60	Tamil Nadu	KRISHNAGIRI	AIADMK	K. Ashok Kumar
61	Tamil Nadu	MADURAI	AIADMK	R. Gopalkrishnan
62	Tamil Nadu	MAYILADUTURAI	AIADMK	R. K. Bharathi Mohan
63	Tamil Nadu	NAGAPATTINAM	AIADMK	Dr K.Gopal
64	Tamil Nadu	NAMAKKAL	AIADMK	P. R. Sundaram
65	Tamil Nadu	NILGIRIS	AIADMK	Gopalakrishnan Chinnaraj
66	Tamil Nadu	PERAMBALUR	AIADMK	R. P. Marutharajaa
67	Tamil Nadu	POLLACHI	AIADMK	C. Mahendran
68	Tamil Nadu	RAMANATHAPURAM	AIADMK	A. Anwhar Raajhaa
69	Tamil Nadu	SALEM	AIADMK	V. Pannerselvam
70	Tamil Nadu	SIVAGANGA	AIADMK	P.R. Senthilnathan
71	Tamil Nadu	SRIPERUMBUDUR	AIADMK	Krishnan Narayanasamy Ramachandran
72	Tamil Nadu	TENKASI	AIADMK	M. Vasanthi
73	Tamil Nadu	THANJAVUR	AIADMK	K. Parasuraman
74	Tamil Nadu	THENI	AIADMK	R.Parthipan
75	Tamil Nadu	TIRUVALLUR	AIADMK	P. Venugopal
76	Tamil Nadu	THOOTHUKUDI	AIADMK	Jayasingh Thiyagaraj Natterjee
77	Tamil Nadu	TIRUCHIRAPPALLI	AIADMK	P. Kumar
78	Tamil Nadu	TIRUNELVELI	AIADMK	K. R. P. Prabakaran
79	Tamil Nadu	TIRUPPUR	AIADMK	V. Sathyabama
80	Tamil Nadu	TIRUVANNAMALAI	AIADMK	C. Annadurai
81	Tamil Nadu	VELLORE (Voting cancelled over allegations of excess use of money power)	AIADMK	B. Senguttuvan
82	Tamil Nadu	VILLUPURAM**	AIADMK	S. Rajendran (died in February 2019)
83	Tamil Nadu	VIRUDHUNAGAR	AIADMK	T Radhakrishnan
84	Tripura	TRIPURA EAST (postponed to April 23 over law and order concerns)	CPI(M)	Jitendra Choudhury
85	Manipur	INNER MANIPUR	Congress	Thokchom Meinya
86	Uttar Pradesh	AGRA	BJP	Dr. Ram Shankar Katheria
87	Uttar Pradesh	ALIGARH	BJP	Satish Kumar Gautam
88	Uttar Pradesh	AMROHA	BJP	Kanwar Singh Tanwar
89	Uttar Pradesh	BULANDSHAHR	BJP	Bhola Singh
90	Uttar Pradesh	FATEHPUR SIKRI	BJP	Choudhary Babulal
91	Uttar Pradesh	HATHRAS	BJP	Rajesh Kumar Diwakar
92	Uttar Pradesh	MATHURA	BJP	Hema Malini
93	Uttar Pradesh	NAGINA	BJP	Yashwant Singh
94	West Bengal	DARJEELING	BJP	S. S. Ahluwalia
95	West Bengal	JALPAIGURI	TMC	Bijoy Chandra Barman
96	West Bengal	RAIGANJ	CPI(M)	Mohammed Salim
97	Puducherry	PUDUCHERRY	AINRC	R. Radhakrishnan

* Seats where bypolls were held

Among the key contestants in the fray are Union ministers Jual Oram, Sadananda Gowda and Pon Radhakrishnan, former prime minister HD Deve Gowda, Congress leaders Verappa Moily and Raj Babbar, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah, BJP's Hema Malini and DMK's Dayanidhi Maran, A Raja and Kanimozhi.

The Lok Sabha polls are being held in seven-phases for 542 seats (barring Vellore) on April 11, April 18, April 23, April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19, and counting will be on May 23.