The 2024 Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases, starting April 19 and end on June 1. The results will be declared on June 4.

Elections to the four state Assemblies - in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Odisha - will be held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections, chief election commissioner said at media briefing where he was flanked by the two newly appointed election commissioners, Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, who joined the poll panel on Friday.

The counting of votes for the 543 parliamentary constituencies and the four Assemblies will happen together on June 4.

The 2014 Lok Sabha polls were held in nine phases, and seven in 2019.

The five-year term of the current Lok Sabha ends on June 16. The term of the state assemblies of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Odisha is set to expire on June 24.

With the announcement of dates, the model code of conduct comes into force immediately.

Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Bengal will vote in seven phases starting from April 19, while Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir will vote in five phases.

Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand will vote in four phases and in three phases in Chhattisgarh and Assam. Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tripura and Manipur will go to vote in two phases.

Single day polling will be held in 22 states and Union territories. These are Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, Sikkim, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Ladakh, Dadra and Nagar, Daman and Haveli and Diu.

By-election to 26 Assembly seats in the states of Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Tripura, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu will also be held. The commission will hold these bypolls simultaneously with the general elections in those constituencies.