Bihar: 82 candidates in fray from five seats in fifth phase of Lok Sabha poll on Monday

Voting for five out of 40 parliamentary constituencies in Bihar is scheduled to take place in fifth phase on Monday. Polls will be held in five constituency  -Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur Saran and Hajipur.

A tota of 82 candidates including 6 women are in the fray from these 5 Lok Sabha seats. 

As per the data available, there are total 8,766,722 voters (8,749,847 General and 16,875 Service voters) in these 5 parliamentary constituencies, out of which 4,678,401 are males, 4,088,096 females and 225 third gender voters. The Election Commission has set up 8,899 polling stations to  have been set up to hold the polling in free and fair manner.

Parliamentary Constituency wise details of voters, number and name of candidates, polling stations are given below:

Constituencies	Electorate				No of polling booths	No of contesting candidates
	Male	Female	Third gender	Total
Sitamarhi	927085	823630	56	1750771	1,776	20
Madhubani	944657	846458	51	1791166	1,837	17
Muzaffarpur	920017	807730	32	1727779	1,748	22
Saran	891660	770235	27	1661922	1,711	12
Hajipur (SC)	978961	839189	59	1818209	1,827	11
Total	4662380	4087242	225	8749847	8,899	82

The election process will be overseen by over four thousand three hundred micro observers and live webcast facility will be available at 400 booths.