Polling for the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha polls began on Monday in 71 Lok Sabha constituencies spread across nine states. Over 12.79 crore voters will decide the fate of 945 candidates today. Polling started on a peaceful note in 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra for the fourth and final phase of 2019 parliamentary elections, officials said on Monday.
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As many as 3,11,92,823 voters, including 1418 transgenders, are eligible to exercise their franchise for which the Election Commission of India has set up a total 33,314 polling stations in these constituencies, deployed 68,018 balloting units, 39,977 control units and 43,309 VVPAT-EVMs.
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The 17 constituencies polling are: Mumbai North, Mumbai North-West, Mumbai North-East, Mumbai North-Central, Mumbai South-Central, Mumbai South, Nandurbar, Dhule, Dindori, Nashik, Palghar, Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Thane, Maval, Shirur and Shirdi.
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<div>Of these, the highest number of voters 23,70,276 are registered in Thane and lowest 14,40,142 are registered in Mumbai South-Central constituency.</div>
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<div>For Mumbai's six seats, there are 10,073 booths at 1,492 polling stations of which 325 have been declared as 'critical' by the Mumbai police.</div>
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Voting will be conducted from 7 am to 6 pm under stringent security measures with over 40,000 personnel on guard only in Mumbai, officials said.
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Anil Ambani was spotted casting his vote in Mumbai
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Mumbai: BJP candidate from Amethi, Smriti Irani and her husband Zubin Irani cast their vote at a polling booth in Versova. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LokSabhaElections2019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LokSabhaElections2019</a> <a href="https://t.co/rPmk33TXlT">pic.twitter.com/rPmk33TXlT</a>
&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1122771016562798592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Priya Dutt and husband Owen Roncon cast their vote in Mumbai
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Director Kunal Kohli casted his vote in Mumbai
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Tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi cast his vote in Bandra
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Film maker Vishal Bhardwaj casted his vote in Andheri West
 
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Union Min&amp;BJP leader Piyush Goyal after casting his vote at Walsingham School, Malabar Hill in Mumbai: This election is now a Tsunami election. North South,East&amp;West, Modi wave has overtaken the country. PM Modi is the tallest leader today in the country. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LokSabhaElections2019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LokSabhaElections2019</a> <a href="https://t.co/S6fXnrhLE1">pic.twitter.com/S6fXnrhLE1</a>
&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1122765689092075520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Sanjay Nirupam with family cast his vote in Andheri West
The Election Commission has set up 1.40 lakh polling booths/stations and has made elaborate security arrangements.&nbsp;
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Urmila Matondkar present at the polling booth to cast her vote.
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Actor Amir Khan cast his vote in Bandra
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Actor Anupam Kher cast his vote&nbsp;
Polling will be held in 17 seats in Maharashtra, 13 each in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, eight in West Bengal, six each in Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, five in Bihar, three in Jharkhand and a part of the Anantnag constituency in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Gopal Shetty with family at the voting booth in Mumbai
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Milind Deora with family at the polling booth in Mumbai
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Manoj Kotak cast his vote in Mumbai
In the first three phases, voting has been held in 302 Lok Sabha constituencies, and 168 more seats will go to polls in the last three phases.&nbsp;Election to 542 Lok Sabha seats is being conducted in seven phases between April 11 and May 19. Election in Vellore constituency in Tamil Nadu has been cancelled following excess use of money power. Results will be declared on May 23.
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Polling started on a peaceful note in 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra for the fourth and final phase of 2019 parliamentary elections, officials said on Monday

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