Know which parties currently hold the seats going to polls in first phase of Lok Sabha election

In the 91 constituencies where voting is underway in the first phase on April 11, much is at state for the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Congress as well as Telangana Rashtra Samithi and Telugu Desam Party. These are the parties which currently hold the maximum number of seats where voting is being held on Thursday.

The BJP has sitting MPs in 30 of these 91 constituencies while the Congress has 7 of these seats. In 25 seats of Andhra Pradesh and 17 seats of Telangana which are going to polls in a single phase on Thursday, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and Telugu Desam Party will be looking to expand their vote share. The TRS and TDP have sitting MPs in 12 and 15 seats respectively. 

Another big player in the race in the south in YSR Congress Party. The Jagan Mohan Reddy-led party currently has 9 seats in the Lok Sabha.

Here is a division of which parties currently hold the seats in which voting is being held in the first phase.

SR NUMBER	STATE	LOK SABHA SEAT	WINNING PARTY
FIRST PHASE – 91 CONSTITUENCIES
1	Uttar Pradesh	BAGHPAT	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Uttar Pradesh	BIJNOR	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Uttar Pradesh	GAUTAM BUDDHA NAGAR	Bharatiya Janata Party
4	Uttar Pradesh	GHAZIABAD	Bharatiya Janata Party
5	Uttar Pradesh	KAIRANA*	Rashtriya Lok Dal
6	Uttar Pradesh	MEERUT	Bharatiya Janata Party
7	Uttar Pradesh	MUZAFFARNAGAR	Bharatiya Janata Party
8	Uttar Pradesh	SAHARANPUR	Bharatiya Janata Party
9	Maharashtra	BHANDARA–GONDIYA*	Nationalist Congress Party
10	Maharashtra	CHANDRAPUR	Bharatiya Janata Party
11	Maharashtra	GADCHIROLI–CHIMUR	Bharatiya Janata Party
12	Maharashtra	NAGPUR	Bharatiya Janata Party
13	Maharashtra	RAMTEK	Shiv Sena
14	Maharashtra	WARDHA	Bharatiya Janata Party
15	Maharashtra	ZAHIRABAD	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
16	Andhra Pradesh	AMALAPURAM	Telugu Desam
17	Andhra Pradesh	ANAKAPALLI	Telugu Desam
18	Andhra Pradesh	ANANTAPUR	Telugu Desam
19	Andhra Pradesh	ARAKU	YSR Congress Party
20	Andhra Pradesh	BAPATLA	Telugu Desam
21	Andhra Pradesh	CHITTOOR	Telugu Desam
22	Andhra Pradesh	ELURU	Telugu Desam
23	Andhra Pradesh	GUNTUR	Telugu Desam
24	Andhra Pradesh	HINDUPUR	Telugu Desam
25	Andhra Pradesh	KADAPA	YSR Congress Party
26	Andhra Pradesh	KAKINADA	Telugu Desam
27	Andhra Pradesh	KURNOOL	YSR Congress Party
28	Andhra Pradesh	MACHILIPATNAM	Telugu Desam
29	Andhra Pradesh	NANDYAL	YSR Congress Party
30	Andhra Pradesh	NARASAPURAM	Bharatiya Janata Party
31	Andhra Pradesh	NARASARAOPET	Telugu Desam
32	Andhra Pradesh	NELLORE	YSR Congress Party
33	Andhra Pradesh	ONGOLE	YSR Congress Party
34	Andhra Pradesh	RAJAHMUNDRY	Telugu Desam
35	Andhra Pradesh	RAJAMPET	YSR Congress Party
36	Andhra Pradesh	SRIKAKULAM	Telugu Desam
37	Andhra Pradesh	TIRUPATI	YSR Congress Party
38	Andhra Pradesh	VIJAYAWADA	Telugu Desam
39	Andhra Pradesh	VISAKHAPATNAM	Bharatiya Janata Party
40	Andhra Pradesh	VIZIANAGARAM	Telugu Desam
41	Assam	DIBRUGARH	Bharatiya Janata Party
42	Assam	JORHAT	Bharatiya Janata Party
43	Assam	KALIABOR	Congress
44	Assam	LAKHIMPUR	Bharatiya Janata Party
45	Assam	TEZPUR	Bharatiya Janata Party
46	Bihar	AURANGABAD	Bharatiya Janata Party
47	Bihar	GAYA	Bharatiya Janata Party
48	Bihar	JAMUI	Lok Janshakti Party
49	Bihar	NAWADA	Bharatiya Janata Party
50	Jammu and Kashmir	BARAMULLA	People's Democratic Party
51	Jammu and Kashmir	JAMMU	Bharatiya Janata Party
52	Arunachal Pradesh	ARUNACHAL EAST	Congress
53	Arunachal Pradesh	ARUNACHAL WEST	Bharatiya Janata Party
54	Manipur	OUTER MANIPUR	Congress
55	Meghalaya	SHILLONG	Congress
56	Meghalaya	TURA	National People's Party
57	Mizoram	MIZORAM	Congress
58	Nagaland	NAGALAND*	Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party
59	Odisha	BERHAMPUR	Biju Janata Dal
60	Odisha	KALAHANDI	Biju Janata Dal
61	Odisha	KORAPUT	Biju Janata Dal
62	Odisha	NABARANGPUR	Biju Janata Dal
63	Sikkim	SIKKIM	Sikkim Democratic Front
64	Tripura	TRIPURA WEST	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
65	West Bengal	ALIPURDUARS	Trinamool Congress
66	West Bengal	COOCH BEHAR	Trinamool Congress
67	Andaman And Nicobar Islands	ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS	Bharatiya Janata Party
68	Lakshadeep	LAKSHADWEEP	Nationalist Congress Party
69	Chhattisgarh	BASTAR	Bharatiya Janata Party
70	Uttarakhand	ALMORA	Bharatiya Janata Party
71	Uttarakhand	GARHWAL	Bharatiya Janata Party
72	Uttarakhand	HARIDWAR	Bharatiya Janata Party
73	Uttarakhand	NAINITAL–UDHAM SINGH NAGAR	Bharatiya Janata Party
74	Uttarakhand	TEHRI GARHWAL	Bharatiya Janata Party
75	Telangana	ADILABAD	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
76	Telangana	PEDDAPALLE	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
77	Telangana	KARIMNAGAR	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
78	Telangana	NIZAMABAD	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
79	Telangana	ZAHIRABAD	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
80	Telangana	MEDAK	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
81	Telangana	MALKAJGIRI	Telugu Desam
82	Telangana	SECUNDERABAD	Bharatiya Janata Party
83	Telangana	HYDERABAD	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen
84	Telangana	CHEVELLA	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
85	Telangana	MAHBUBNAGAR	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
86	Telangana	NAGARKURNOOL	Congress
87	Telangana	NALGONDA	Congress
88	Telangana	BHONGIR	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
89	Telangana	WARANGAL	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
90	Telangana	MAHABUBABAD	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
91	Telangana	KHAMMAM	YSR Congress Party

*Seats where bypolls were held

Some of the key Lok Sabha constituencies in the first phase are:

* Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh - BJP's General VK Singh contesting against Congress' Dolly Sharma and SP's Suresh Bansal.

* Kairana in Uttar Pradesh - BJP has fielded Pradeep Kumar against Congress' Harendra Malik and SP's Tabassum Begum.

* Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh - Sanjeev Kumar Balyan is leading the BJP charge against RLD's Ajit Singh.

* Nagpur in Maharashtra - Union minister Nitin Gadkari is fighting against Congress' Nana Patole.

* Nizamabad in Telangana - There are 185 candidates here. Main among them is Kalvakuntla Kavitha - daughter of Telangana CM KCR. She takes on Congress' Madhu Yashki Goud.

* Hyderabad in Telangana - AIMIM chief Asaduddin takes on BJP's Bhagvanth Rao.

* Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh - BJP's Daggubati Purandeswari - daughter of NT Rama Rao fights TDP's MV Sribharat and Congress'Pedada Ramani Kumari.

* Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh - TDP's Kesineni Srinivas is contesting against YSRCP candidate Potuluri Vara Prasad.

* Tezpur in Assam - Pallab Lochan Das of BJP is fighting against Congress' GVK Bhanu.

* Gaya in Bihar - Former state CM Jitan Ram Manjhi takes on JDU's Vijay Kumar Manjhi.

* Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir - BJP's Jugal Kishore battles against Congress' Raman Bhalla.