The Election Commission of India has announced that 1210 candidates will be contesting in elections across 13 States/UTs going for polls in the second phase of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

Further, 2633 nominations forms has been filed for 88 PCs across 12 States/UTs for phase 2 of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

The last date for filing nominations for phase 2 for all 12 States/UTs was April 4, 2024. After the scrutiny of 2633 nominations filed, 1428 nominations were found to be valid. The last date for withdrawal of candidature for all 12 States/UTs was April 8, 2024.

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In phase 2, Kerala has a maximum of 500 nominations from 20 Parliamentary Constituencies, followed by 491 nominations from 14 PCs in Karnataka, informed a press note issued by Anuj Chandak, Joint Director (Media) ECI.

A minimum of 14 nominations were received from one PC in Tripura. 16-Nanded Parliamentary Constituency in Maharashtra received a maximum of 92 nominations.

It may be noted that 15 ACs in Outer Manipur PC will go to polls on April 19 (Phase 1) and 13 ACs in this PC will go to polls on April 26 (Phase 2). There are four contesting candidates from Outer Manipur PC which has been notified in Gazette notification issued on April 5, 2024. Overall, for phase 1, there are 1625 contesting candidates across 21 States/UTs with 1491 male candidates and 134 female candidates.