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From Narendra Modi to Shatrughan Sinha, key contests in Round 7

Voters in 59 constituencies will use their right to vote on May 19 in the seventh and the last phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. Eight states and Union Territory will go for polls in the last phase. The states and Union Territory which are going for polls are Uttar Pradesh (13/80 seats), Punjab (13 seats), West Bengal (9/42 seats), Bihar (8/40 seats), Madhya Pradesh (8/29 seats), Himachal Pradesh (4 seats), Jharkhand (3/14 seats) and Chandigarh (1 seat). Some of the key constituencies in the last phase of elections are Varanasi, Mirzapur and Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh, Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Bathinda and Firozpur in Punjab, Diamond Harbour and Kolkata Uttar in West Bengal, Patna Sahib, Pataliputra, Karakat and Sasaram in Bihar, Ratlam and Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh, Dumka in Jharkhand, Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh. Several prominent candidates are in the fray in the last phase of elections – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sukhbir Singh Badal, Sunny Deol, Shatrughan Sinha, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Meira Kumar, Pawan Kumar Bansal, Upendra Kushwaha, Misa Bharti, Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Anupriya Patel, Manoj Sinha, Sunil Kumar Jakhar, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Rahul Sinha, Manish Tewari, Abhishek Banerjee, Kirron Anupam Kher, Anurag Thakur and Shibu Soren. Let’s see the state-wise key constituencies and prominent candidates in detail.