2019 Lok Sabha elections: Delhi votes on May 12

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Sunday announced that all seven Lok Sabha seats of Delhi will go to polls on May 12.

The general elections in the country will be held in seven phases from April 11 to May 19 and the votes will be counted on May 23, the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora announced.

The dates for the seven phases are: April 11, April 18, April 23, April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19.


The Model Code of Conduct comes into effect immediately after the announcement. VVPATs will be used with EVMs at all polling stations in the country.

Assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim will be held with Lok Sabha polls. Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir will not be held along with the LS polls.

The number of total electorate in the general elections will be 900 million, of which 15 million voters are in the 18-19 age group. There will be approximately 10 lakh polling stations across the country as compared to 9 lakh polling stations in 2014.