ASSAM: The Sonitpur district election office dispatched polling parties to their respective polling stations on Thursday for the first phase of elections.

The first phase of polls in five parliamentary constituencies Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, and Kaziranga will be held on April 19.

For the Sonitpur parliamentary constituency, dispatch of polling parties and security personnel started from Darrang College in Assam's Sonitpur district on Thursday.

There are more than 1800 polling stations in the Sonitpur Lok Sabha seat.