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Voting for 49 seats across eight states and union territories will take place on May 20 in the fifth of seven phases of the Lok Sabha polls. The campaign for this phase ended on Saturday. The seats up for election in the fifth phase include 14 in Uttar Pradesh, 13 in Maharashtra, 7 in West Bengal, 5 each in Bihar and Odisha, 3 in Jharkhand, and 1 each in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

In the constituencies where voting is to take place in the fifth phase, a total voter turnout of 62.01 per cent was recorded in 2019. The highest turnout was in West Bengal, with 80.13 per cent voting, while Jammu and Kashmir had the lowest with 34.6 per cent voting. With the completion of the fifth phase of voting, elections will have been conducted in 428 out of the 543 Lok Sabha seats in the country.

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A total of 695 candidates are contesting in the 49 seats of the fifth phase. All parties vehemently held rallies and road shows in support of their candidates on the final day of the campaigning.

In Uttar Pradesh, this phase includes the constituencies of Mohanlalganj, Lucknow, Raebareli, Amethi, Jalaun, Jhansi, Hamirpur, Banda, Fatehpur, Kaushambi, Barabanki, Faizabad, Kaiserganj, and Gonda. Additionally, voting for the vacant seat of the Lucknow East Assembly will also take place on Monday.

In this phase, the prominent candidates include Defense Minister Rajnath Singh from Lucknow, Rahul Gandhi from Raebareli, Smriti Irani from Amethi, and Karan Bhushan Singh, son of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, from Kaiserganj. Out of these, 13 seats are currently held by the BJP, while Raebareli is the only seat held by the Congress.

In Bihar, voting will take place on Monday in the parliamentary constituencies of Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Saran, and Hajipur. The Saran and Hajipur seats remain high-profile, with Chirag Paswan contesting from Hajipur and Rajiv Pratap Rudy facing off against Lalu Prasad Yadav's daughter Rohini Acharya in Saran. In the fifth phase, elections will also be held in Jharkhand for the Kodarma, Chatra, and Hazaribagh seats. In 2019, the BJP won all three of these seats. From Kodarma, Union Minister Annapurna Devi is the BJP candidate.

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The election campaign for the Baramulla-Kupwara parliamentary seat in Jammu and Kashmir and one seat in Ladakh ended on Saturday. In Baramulla, the main contest is between National Conference candidate and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, People's Conference's Sajad Gani Lone, and Awami Ittihad Party candidate and former legislator Engineer Rashid. In Ladakh, there is a three-way contest between BJP's Tashi Gyalson, Congress's Tsering Namgyal, and independent candidate Haji Hanifa Jan.