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Key contests in final poll phase

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Following are the key contests for the fifth and final phase of Lok Sabha elections:

* Tamil Nadu (39 constituencies) and Union territory Puducherry (One constituency)
Sivaganga: P Chidambaram (Congress) and Raja Kannappan (AIADMK)
Chennai Central: Dayanidhi Maran (DMK) and Mohammed Ali Jinnah (AIADMK)
Sriperumbudur: TR Baalu (DMK) and AK Moorthy (PMK)
Mayiladuthurai: Mani Shankar Aiyar (Congress) and OS Manian (AIADMK)
Madurai: MK Azhagiri (DMK) and P Mohan (CPI-M)
Virudhunagar: Manik Tagore (Congress) and Vaiko (MDMK)
Erode: EVKS Elangovan (Congress) and A Ganesamurthy (MDMK)
Puducherry: V Narayanasamy (Congress) and M Ramadoss (PMK)

* Uttar Pradesh (14 constituencies)
Pilibhit: Varun Gandhi (BJP), VM Singh (Congress) and Riaz Ahmad (SP)
Aonla: Maneka Gandhi (BJP), Dharmendra Kashyap (SP) and Kunwar Sarvraj Singh (BSP)
Rampur: Jaya Prada (SP), Begum Noor Bano (Congress) and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (BJP)
Moradabad: Mohammad Azharuddin (Congress), Shafiqur Rehman Burque (SP) and Sarvesh Kumar Singh (BJP)
Dhaurharara: Jitin Prasad (Congress), Rajesh Verma (BSP) and Raghvendra Singh (BJP)

* West Bengal (11 seats)
Kolkata South: Mamata Banerjee (Trinamool Congress) and Rabin Deb (CPI-M)
Kolkata North: Mohammed Sailim (CPI-M), Sudip Bandopadhyay (Trinamool Congress) and Tathagata Roy (BJP) Dum Dum: Sougata Roy (Trinamool Congress), Tapan Sikdar (BJP) and Amitava Nandy (CPI-M)
Jadavpur: Kabir Suman (Trinamool Congress) and Sujon Chakraborty (CPI-M)
Barrackpore: Dinesh Trivedi (Trinamool Congress) and Tarit Topdar (CPI-M)

* Punjab (9 constituencies) and union territory Chandigarh (One constituency)
Amritsar: Navjot Singh Sidhu (BJP) and Om Prakash Soni (Congress)
Jalandhar: (Reserved): Hans Raj Hans (Akali Dal) and Mohinder Singh Kaypee (Congress)
Gurdaspur: Vinod Khanna (BJP) and Pratap Singh Bajwa (Congress)
Ludhiana: Manish Tewari (Congress) and G.S. Galib (Akali Dal)
Fatehgarh Sahib (Reserved): Charanjit Singh Atwal (Akali Dal) and Sukhdev Singh Libra (Congress)
Chandigarh: Pawan Kumar Bansal (Congress) and Satya Pal Jain (BJP)

* Uttarakhand (5 constituencies)
Pauri: Satpal Maharaj (Congress) and TPS Rawat (BJP)
Tehri: Vijay Bahuguna (Congress sitting), Jaspal Rana (BJP) and Munna Singh Chauhan (BSP)
Haridwar: Harish Rawat (Congress), Swami Yatindranand (BJP) and Mohammad Shahzad (BSP)
Nainital: KC Singh 'Baba' (Congress), Bachchi Singh Rawat (BJP), Narayan Pal (BSP) and Narayan Singh Jantwal (Uttarakhand Kranti Dal)
Almora: Pradeep Tamta (Congress), Ajay Tamta (BJP) and BR Dhauni (BSP)

* Himachal Pradesh (4 constituencies)
Mandi: Virbhadra Singh (Congress) and Maheshwar Singh (BJP)
Hamirpur: Narinder Thakur (Congress) and Anurag Thakur (BJP)

* Jammu and Kashmir (2 constituencies)
Baramulla: Sharief-ud-Din Shariq (National Conference), Muhammad Dilawar Mir (People's Democratic Party) and Sajjad Gani Lone (Independent)
Ladakh: P Namgyal (Congress) and Ghulam Hassan Khan (Independent)

 
 









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