Check out the 59 seats going to polls in Phase 7

Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com gives the lowdown on the 59 seats spread across seven states and one Union territory going to polls in the last and final phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections on May 19, 2019.

• Predict who will win Phase 7

The final phase of the seven-phase Lok Sabha election will be held on on May 19.

A total of 59 seats spread across seven states and one Union territory, Chandigarh, will go to polls on Sunday.

The fate of the candidates in 482 constituencies has already been sealed in the earlier six phases.

The first phase of the 2019 general elections, which was held on April 11, saw a voter turnout of 69.43 per cent.

The second phase polling held on April 18 saw 67.84 per cent voter turnout.

The third phase on April 23 saw a voter turnout of 65.61 per cent, whereas the fourth phase polling held on April 28 recorded a voter turnout of 64 per cent.

The fifth phase on May 6 saw over 62 per cent voters exercising their franchise.

The polling for the sixth and the penultimate phase held on May 12 recorded a voter turn out of 63 per cent.

• India Votes 2019

Of the 59 seats going to polls in the last phase, the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies had managed to win 40 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from the states of Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Chandigarh.

Of the remaining 19, all the nine seats going to polls in West Bengal were won by the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress.

Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party, in its first appearance in the Lok Sabha elections, put up a stellar performance winning four seats from Punjab.

The Congress on the other hand had managed to win only three seats -- from Punjab.

Of the remaining three seats, two seats were won by Shibu Soren-led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha from Jharkhand and one seat was won by Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal(U) from Bihar.

Check out the seats going to polls in the seventh phase, the winning party in 2014 and the winning candidate.