Today begins the fourth phase of Elections 2024, which is being held at 96 parliamentary Constituencies across nine states and one union territory on Monday, May 13, 2024.

Besides, simultaneous polls is also held for 175 assembly seats of Andhra Pradesh and 28 assembly seats of Odisha in the fourth phase.

The polling has already began at 7am and will continue till 6 pm across all Lok Sabha and assembly constituencies.

Polling will be held in all 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana, all 25 seats in Andhra Pradesh, 13 in Uttar Pradesh, five in Bihar, four in Jharkhand, eight in Madhya Pradesh, 11 in Maharashtra, four in Odisha, eight in West Bengal and one in Jammu and Kashmir.

A total of 1,717 candidates from 10 states/UT will contest elections in phase 4 of the Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission of India has said. According to the poll panel, a total of 4,264 nominations were filed for 96 Parliamentary constituencies across.

The election commission said the maximum number of nomination forms were received from Telangana (1,488) followed by Andhra Pradesh with 1,103 nominations from 25 constituencies.

The poll body on Sunday said polling time in certain assembly segments of 17 Parliamentary constituencies of Telangana was increased from 7am till 6pm to increase voters' participation.

In this phase, issues such as reservations, appeasement politics, corruption and jobs dominated the battle of narratives.