Voting for 1st phase in Maharashtra on Friday, check details of constituencies

Over 95 lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise on Friday in the first phase of Maharashtra Lok Sabha elections 2024 covering five constituencies where 97 candidates including Union minister Nitin Gadkari of the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP are in frayThe voting is scheduled to be held in the constituencies of Nagpur Ramtek SC BhandaraGondia Chandrapur and Naxalhit GadchiroliChimur ST all located in easternmost parts of MaharashtraThere are 9554667 voters in the five Lok Sabha constituencies in the Vidarbha region where voting will take place on Friday April 19 Of these 4828142 are male 4726178 female and 347 transgenders voters said a statement from the state electoral office in Mumbai on Wednesday according to the PTIIn Nagpur a direct fight is on cards between Nitin Gadkari who is seeking a third term and Congress candidate Vikas Thakre The highprofile constituency which houses the RSS headquarters has a total of 2218259 voters 1110 840 males 1107197 females and 222 transgender persons as per the PTIIn Chandrapur BJP candidate and Maharashtra minister Sudhir Mungantiwar is facing Congress nominee Pratibha Dhanorkar wife of late parliamentarian Suresh Dhanorkar who was the lone MP from the grand old party to be elected to the Lok Sabha from Maharashtra in 2019 from the seat The Congress MP 47 died last year Chandrapur has a total of 1836314 voters including 945026 males and 891240 females the PTI reportedIn BhandaraGondia the BJP has fielded sitting MP Sunil Mendhe who is pitted against Congress candidate Dr Prashant Patole BhandaraGondia has a total of 1875106 voters 936041 males 939056 females and 12 transgenders as per the PTITwotime Lok Sabha MP of BJP Ashok Nete is contesting against Congress nominee Dr Namdev Kirsan in GadchiroliChimur ST where some areas are affected Naxal insurgency In the 2019 elections Nete had defeated Congress candidate Dr Namdev Usendi The constituency has 1612930 voters 811836 males 801082 females and 12 transgendersIn Ramtek SC the fight is between Shyamkumar Barwe of the Congress and Eknath Shindeled Shiv Senas candidate Raju Parwe The constituency has a total of 2045717 voters 1043266 males 1002396 females and 55 transgendersAccording to the news agency the statement from the state electoral office said five assembly segments spread across two Lok Sabha seats including Naxalhit GadchiroliChimur will vote between 7 am and 3 pm unlike other areas where voters can exercise their franchise until 6 pmThe assembly segments of Amgaon Armori Gadchiroli and Aheri GadchiroliChimur Lok Sabha constituency and Arjune Morgaon BhandaraGondia LS seat will have voting between 7 am and 3 pm This decision has been taken because most of the voting booths in these segments are located in remote locations and the region is known for Naxalite activities said a poll official the PTI reported on ThursdayGadchiroliChimur is the largest parliamentary constituency in the state chiefly because its remote villages are separated by vast dense forest regions This Lok Sabha constituency consists of Amgaon assembly segment from Gondia district Armori Gadchiroli and Aheri segments from Gadchiroli district and Bramhapuri and Chimur segments from Chandrapur districtMaharashtra which has 48 Lok Sabha seats the second highest after Uttar Pradesh will vote in five phases between April 19 and May 20with PTI inputs