Photos: Key seats in Hindi heartland vote in phase 5 of Lok Sabha polls

The fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019 today covers the remaining 12 constituencies in Rajasthan, as well as 14 in Uttar Pradesh, including the high-profile Amethi, Rae Bareli and Lucknow seats, five in Bihar, and seven in West Bengal. Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh go in for their second phase of polls with voting in four and seven constituencies, respectively.Voting is also being held in the final phase of the three stage polling in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag, as well as the state’s Ladakh constituency.

Updated on: May 06, 2019 6:01 PM IST

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Voters queue to cast their votes during the 5th phase of Lok Sabha election in Mohanlalganj, Lucknow. At 3 pm, the voter turnout in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019 stood at 50.62%. 344.08% polling was recorded in Bihar, 15.34% in Jammu and Kashmir, 53.77% in Madhya Pradesh, 50.40% in Rajasthan, 44.79% in Uttar Pradesh, 62.84% in West Bengal and 58.63% in Jharkhand, as per data on Election Commission’s Voter Turnout app. (Deepak Gupta / HT Photo)

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Voters show their Identity cards as they wait in a queue to cast vote at a polling station in Ranchi. A 2019 phase-wise classification of Parliamentary Constituencies by 2014 results shows that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its other National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners had the highest seat share in the PCs which are going to polls today. (Diwakar Prasad / HT Photo)

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A woman shows her finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote. Voters in Lucknow alleged that some of the names were deleted in the latest electoral roll Shia PG College polling station. (Deepak Gupta / HT Photo)

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Security personnel carry an elderly woman to a polling station to cast vote at Hajipur in Vaishali district. The BJP’s share in seats contested by the NDA in 2014 was also highest in the seats that poll today. It fought all seats, except Hajipur and Sitamarhi in Bihar, going to polls and won 39 of them. The BJP is contesting the same 49 PCs in 2019 which it had contested in 2014. (PTI)

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Voter stand in a queue to cast their vote at Howrah in Kolkata. Polling was delayed in several booths in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan after EVMs developed technical glitch in several parliamentary constituencies. In West Bengal, Howrah and Uluberia booths reported glitches in EVMs and VVPATs. (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

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Voters show their finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote at a polling station in Neemrana. The BJP won all 25 constituencies in Rajasthan in the 2014 elections. Given the Congress victory in the 2018 assembly elections, a repeat seems unlikely. A total of 12 constituencies in Rajasthan are going to polls on Monday. (Manish Swarup / AP)

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Voters stand in a queue at a polling station in Shey village, Leh. The Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency has an electoral strength of 174,618 voters. (PTI)

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Militants lobbed a grenade towards a polling station in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir where polling is underway for the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency. A grenade was lobbed towards Rohmoo polling station but there were no reports of any casualties in the blast. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)