New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh, which has 42 Lok Sabha seats, will go to polls on April 30 and May 7. Elections in the respective assembly segments will be held simultaneously. The first day of polling on April 30 will cover 17 Lok Sabha seats and 119 Assembly seats in the Telangana region and the second on May 7 will cover 25 Lok Sabha seats and 175 Assembly seats in the Seemandhra region.
Chief Election Commisissioner V.S. Sampath explained that irrespective of the appointed day for the creation of the new state of Telangana, elections will be held in the Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies as they exist today. The corresponding Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies would go to the respective states once the bifurcation process of the state is complete.
Kerala, which has 20 seats and Karnataka with 28, will also have a single day polling on April 10 and 17 respectively.
Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu with 39 seats will go to polls on April 24.
