Chandigarh is a Union territory and VP Singh Badnore is its administrator.
The Union Territory sends one MP to the Lok Sabha. BJP’s Kirron Kher is the sitting MP after she defeated Congress’s Pawan Kumar Bansal by nearly 70,000 votes in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
The Lok Sabha election 2019 will be held on April 11 and votes will be counted on May 23.
Here’s all you need to know about Chandigarh:
Polling date: May 19
Date of counting: May 23
Ruling party/coalition in the state: It is a Union territory and the President is the chief administrator
Number of Lok Sabha seats in Chandigarh: 1
Party wise break-up of the Lok Sabha seats: BJP-1
Number of voters in the state: 3,15,214
Voter turnout in 2014: 73.71%
Number of assembly seats: NA
Party wise break-up of assembly seats: NA
Key leaders across parties: Kirron Kher (BJP), Pawan Kumar Bansal (Congress), Gulkirat Kaur Panag (AAP)