Elections decoded: After poll announcements by Election Commission, over to 90 cr voters

Lok Sabha elections will begin on April 11 and continue for over a month till May 19 across seven phases, followed by counting of votes on May 23. Assembly elections will also be held in Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Odisha simultaneously with the Lok Sabha polls. However, elections for Jammu and Kashmir assembly have been deferred due to security reasons

• Polling for parliamentary and assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal and Sikkim will be held in the fi rst phase on April 11

• Parliamentary and assembly polls will be held in Odisha across the first four phases

• Twenty-two states and union territories (UTs), including Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana, will have Lok Sabha elections in a single phase while it will be spread across seven phases in UP, Bihar and Bengal

• Karnataka, Manipur, Rajasthan and Tripura will have Lok Sabha elections in two phases, while Assam and Chhattisgarh will have three phase polling

• Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Odisha will have elections in four phases Jammu and Kashmir will have five-phase voting