Dadra and Nagar Haveli: All you need to know

The Lok Sabha election 2019 will be held on April 11 and votes will be counted on May 23.

Dadra and Nagar Haveli is a Union territory and the President is its chief administrator.

A polling official marks a voter with indelible ink prior to casting a ballot inside a polling station. (AFP File Photo)

The reserved Scheduled Tribes constituency sends one MP to the Lok Sabha. BJP’s Natubhai Gomanbhai Patel is the sitting MP after he defeated Congress’s Mohanbhai Sanjibhai Delkar by a narrow margin of slightly more than 6000 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 Dadra and Nagar Haveli:

Polling date:April 23

Date of counting: May 23

Ruling party/coalition in the state: BJP

Number of Lok Sabha seats in Dadra and Nagar Haveli: 1

Party wise break-up of the Lok Sabha seats: BJP-1

Number of voters in the state: 196,617

Voter turnout in 2014: 84.06%

Number of assembly seats: NA

Party wise break-up of assembly seats: NA

Key leaders across parties: Natubhai Gomanbhai Patel (BJP), Mohanbhai Sanjibhai Delkar (Congress)