All 13 PCs in Punjab to go to poll in 7th Phase of General Elections on May 19

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New Delhi : All the 13 parliamentary constituencies (PCs) in Punjab will go to poll in a single phase in the 7^th Phase of General Elections on May 19, 2019.

The 13 PCs going to polls on May 19 are : Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Khadoor Sahib, Jalandhar (SC), Hoshiarpur (SC), Anandpur Sahib, Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib (SC), Faridkot (SC), Firozpur, Bathinda, Sangrur, and Patiala. The polling will be held from 7 am till 6 pm on May 19, 2019. Out of the 13 PCs, 9 are for General Category while 4 PCs : Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Fatehgarh Sahib, and Faridkot are reserved for Scheduled Castes.

Altogether 278 candidates are contesting for the 13 PCs of which 24 are women. The lowest number of candidates ( 8) are in  Hoshiarpur (SC) while the maximum number of candidates are contesting from Amritsar (30 candidates). A total of 23,213 polling stations have been set up in the State, according to a PIB release.

The State of Punjab has a total of 2,08,92,674 electors of which 1,10,59,828 are male electors; 98,32,286 female electors, and 560 electors are from the third gender.