The counting of votes for Lok Sabha Elections 2024 begins at 8 am. All eyes are on whether the exit poll predictions will hold ground and Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) comes back to power with a historic third straight term.
A Party or a coalition needs to win at least 272 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats to be in Power at the center With one seat, Surat already decided in NDA's kitty unopposed, votes for 542 seats will be counted today.
Early trends show I.N.D.I.A. bloc crosses 200-seat mark
It is more than 2 hours since counting has begun and the I.N.D.I.A. bloc has crossed the 200 mark, a bulk of those leads from Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Punjab.
BJP candidate and state president Sukanta Majumdar is trailing in West Bengal's Balurghat seat over his nearest rival TMC's Biplab Mitra by 2253 votes
BJP seeker Kangana Ranaut is leading by periphery of 14,734 votes in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi LS seat.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was before running against Congress seeker Ajay Rai, is now leading in Varanasi Lok Sabha seats.
Sitting MP Prajwal Revanna, who's facing allegations of sexually abusing several women, is leading in Hassan Lok sabha seat. He has formerly been suspended by the JD( S). Meanwhile, JD( S) leader and former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and Union Minister Pralhad Joshi( BJP) were ahead in the Mandya and Dharwad Lok Sabha parts. Among those running are expelled BJP leader K S Eshwarappa and film star Shivrajkumar's woman
Geetha Shivrajkumar of Congress in Shimoga. Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar's family and MP D K Suresh was also running against prestigious cardiologist and former PM H D Deve Gowda's son- in- law Dr C N Manjunath of BJP from Bangalore Rural, according to original counting trends.
Congress expert Digvijaya Singh is running in Rajgarh where Rodmal Nagar is leading over him by a periphery of 10,890 votes. Jyotiraditya Scindia is leading in Guna Lok sabha seat.
BJP leader and Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar has snatched the lead in Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency over his nearest rival, Shashi Tharoor of the INC.
He currently leads by over 4,900 votes.
‘Rajmata’ Amrita Roy of the BJP is pitted against Trinamool Congress’ incumbent but expelled MP Mahua Moitra in Krishnanagar Lok Sabha seat. As per latest EC trends, Ms. Roy is leading with 7,837 votes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now leading in Varanasi with 619 votes, as per the Election Commission website. Congress candidate Ajay Rai is in second lead with 35,805 votes.
As per early trends, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is leading from the Sambalpur seat. Sambalpur in western Odisha is set for a high- octane electoral battle between BJP leader and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Biju Janata Dal( BJD) organising clerk Pranab Prakash Das.
The seat falls in the BJP fort of western Odisha where the party has a wide acceptance that's largely attributed to the presence of organisations combined to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Andhra Pradesh BJP State PresidentD. Purandeswari is leading with 8984 votes against her rival and YSRCP Guduri Chakradhar in Rajahmundry Lok Sabha constituency. According to the Election Commission of India,Ms. Purandeswari has entered 47,696 votes whileMr. Chakradhar entered 38,712 votes.
The BJP was leading in Tripura's two Lok Sabha seats as the counting of votes was underway on Tuesday, according to the Election Commission's website. BJP’s Biplab Kumar Deb was ahead of his nearest rival Asish Kumar Saha in Tripura West administrative seat by votes. In the Tripura East Lok Sabha seat, BJP seeker Kriti Devi Debbarman was leading by votes over her nearest rival Rajendra Reang of the CPI( M).
who contested as an Independent candidate from Bihar's Karakat seat, was leading over his nearest rival Raja Ram Singh Kushwaha of CPI (ML) Liberation by 179 votes.
BJP candidate and Union minister Anurag Thakur leading by 65,336 votes against Cong's Satpal Raizada in Himachal's Hamirpur LS seat: EC.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a lead of 21,629 votes over Congress's Ajay Rai in Varanasi LS seat in Uttar Pradesh: EC.
Congress leads in 11 Maharashtra seats, while its allies NCP (SCP) and Uddhav-led Shiv Sena are ahead in 8 and 11 seats respectively. The rival NDA is leading in 17 seats.
In the 13 constituencies in Maharashtra where Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and the Shiv Sena( UBT), led by Uddhav Thackeray, are fighting head- to- head in the 2024 Lok Sabha choices, both the coalitions are in a veritably tight contest. Of the 13, Shiv Sena( UBT) is leading in 6 while the Shinde- led party is leading in 7. The ultimate is part of the NDA alliance while the Thackarey- led party is with the INDIA bloc. In the two seats where the Nationalist Congress Party led by Ajit Pawar and the Nationalist Congress Party( Sharadchandra Pawar) are fighting head- to- head, the Sharad Pawar- led body, which is supporting the INDIA alliance, is leading in both the seats. Ajit Pawar’s NCP is supporting the NDA coalition this time.
BJP campaigners leading at 14 of the 25 Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan, while Congress is leading at eight seats and three INDIA bloc parties at one seat each. The INDIA bloc parties are CPI( M), Rashtriya Loktantrik Party and Bharatiya Adivasi Party, leading at Sikar, Nagaur and Banswara, independently.
The leading BJP campaigners include Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Bhupender Yadav and Om Birla.
BJP prophet Sambit Patra has taken a substantial lead of 31,367 votes over BJD seeker and former Mumbai police manager Arup Mohan Patnaik in Puri Lok Sabha seat.
BJP is ahead of the Congress in all four Lok Sabha seats in Himachal Pradesh, according to Election Commission trends. BJP's seeker from Mandi, actor Kangana Ranaut, is leading by a periphery of 49,480 votes, while Union minister Anurag Thakur, seeking a fifth term from the Hamirpur seat, is ahead by a periphery of 97,351 votes, as per the bean panel's data. Former Union minister and Congress seeker from Kangra seat, Anand Sharma, is running by votes and former BJP state chairman and sitting BJP MP from Shimla seat, Suresh Kashyap, is leading by 48,231 votes.
The NOTA has garnered votes in Indore Lok Sabha seat so far.
The ruling BJP had claimed that its palm periphery would be a record high of 10 lakh, while the opposition Congress, which was pushed out of fray after its seeker withdrew, claimed NOTA would bag two lakh votes.
Here's how things are shaping in
Maharashra Maha Vikas Aghadi (I.N.D.I.A.)
Congress - 11
Shiv Sena (UBT) - 11
NCP (SP) - 8
Maha Yuti (NDA) BJP - 11
Shiv sena - 5
NCP - 1
Independent/Others - 1
The BJP continues to maintain its lead on all 29 seats of Madhya Pradesh with the Congress running on the only seat that it had won in 2019 — Chhindwara, according to the rearmost trends by the Election Commission.
In Chhindwara, BJP’s Bunty Vivek Sahu had gained a lead of over 60,000 votes against Congress ’ peremptory MP Nakul Nath, the son of former CM and nine- term MP Kamal Nath.
On the Faizabad seat in Ayodhya district, the BJP’s Lallu Singh is trailing by 2,244 votes against the SP’s Awadhesh Prasad.
BJP continues to sweep in the National Capital’s seven constituencies, in Northwest Delhi BJP’s Yogendra Chandolia is leading with the highest margin turnout with 1,03,549, with Congress’s Udit Raj trailing.
Neck- on- neck fight between Congress and BJP in Haryana as both parties lead in five seats. Congress Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and former Congress Haryana chairman Kumari Selja lead by over one lakh votes in Rohtak and Sirsa Lok Sabha seats independently.
Former BJP Chief Minister Manohar Lal leads with over one lakh votes in Karnal.
Six Ministers of the Modi Government are running from Uttar Pradesh. These include Smriti Irani, Kaushal Kishore, Anupriya Patel, Sanjeev Balyan, Mahendra Nath Pandey, Ajay Kumar Mishra Teni. Maneka Gandhi is running in Sultanpur.
Out of five campaigners from the Yadav family of Samajwadi Party, only Aditya Yadav, son of Shivpal Yadav, is running in Budaun.
In a close contest in Haryana, Congress’ Raj Babbar and BJP’s Naveen Jindal lead with a margin of less than 5,000 votes over their nearest rivals.
Here's how things are shaping up in Mumbai
Mumbai North: Piyush Goyal – (BJP) Leading by 1.31 lakh+ votes
Mumbai North Central – Adv. Ujwal Nikam (BJP) – Leading by 56.6 thousand+ votes
Mumbai North East – Sanjay Dina Patil (SS UBT) – Leading by 20.9 thousand+ votes
Mumbai North West – Ravindra Waikar (SS) – Leading by 2.6 thousand+ votes
Mumbai South – Arvind Sawant (SS UBT) – Leading by 57.2 thousand+ votes
Mumbai South Central – Anil Desai (SS UBT) – Leading by 21.2 thousand+ votes
BJP candidate and actor-turned-politician Suresh Gopi appears poised for a win in the Thrissur Lok Sabha seat with a comfortable lead of over 58,000 votes against his nearest rival, according to the Election Commission figures on Tuesday.
Gopi,till around 12.15 pm, got 2,97,760 votes, surpassing the 2,93,822 total votes he received in the 2019 LS polls in Thrissur.
New Delhi, Jun 4( PTI) The BJP is leading in all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi on Tuesday, according to trends on the Election Commission( EC) website.
The BJP's Praveen Khandelwal was originally running the Congress' Jai Prakash Agarwal in the Chandni Chowk seat but has now moved ahead to secure a lead of 27,041 votes, EC data showed.
The BJP's North- East Delhi seeker Manoj Tiwari, who's leveled against the Congress' Kanhaiya Kumar, was leading by a periphery of 73,781 votes.
BJP West Delhi seeker Kamaljeet Sehrawat, who's over against AAP's Mahabal Mishra, was ahead by a periphery of 69,296 votes, and the BJP's North- West Delhi seeker Yogender Chandoliya was leading by votes against the Congress Udit Raj, the data showed.
Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) vice-president and Baramulla Lok Sabha candidate Omar Abdullah accepted defeat in Baramulla against Independent candidate Abdul Rashid Sheikh, after he was seen trailing by 1,28,441 vote
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has scripted a comeback to gain a lead of 3,947 votes against BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar after lagging behind for nearly two hours in Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. Around 1.5 lakh votes are yet to be counted in the constituency.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has surpassed Sonia Gandhi’s 2019 victory margin from the Rae Bareli constituency and is now leading by 2,27,535 votes against his nearest rival Dinesh Pratap Singh of the BJP.
Rahul Gandhi, who contested from Rae Bareli seat for the first time, was ahead of the BJP candidate since the beginning of the counting. Mr. Singh is also a Minister in the Yogi Adityanath cabinet.
JD(S) Member of Parliament Prajwal Revanna, facing charges of rape and sexual abuse of many women, is trailing in Hassan Lok Sabha seat in Karnataka. After 17 rounds of counting, Congress candidate Shreyas M. Patel is leading by over 43,000 votes.
In Rajasthan, BJP’s Manju Sharma won the Jaipur Lok Sabha seat by defeating her nearest rival, Pratap Singh Khachariyawas of Congress, with a margin of 3,31,767 votes. Manju Sharma polled 8,86,850 votes.
Congress leader Kishori Lal Sharma is leading by a comfortable margin of over 88,000 votes in the Amethi parliamentary seat against the BJP’s Smriti Irani, who defeated Rahul Gandhi in 2019.
According to the latest trends available on the Election Commission website, Mr. Sharma is leading by 88,908 votes. Mr. Gandhi represented the Amethi Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh from 2004 to 2019.
In the 2019 general election, he lost the seat to Irani by a margin of 55,102 votes. Gandhi was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kerala’s Wayanad.
PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti conceded defeat from Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat against NC leader Mian Altaf.
Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi won by a comfortable margin of 1,75,993 votes against his BJP rival Sushil Rinku in Punjab’s Jalandhar Lok Sabha constituency, according to Election Commission data.
BJP’s K. Annamalai trails by 25,000 votes at the end of round five of vote counting in Coimbatore. Ganapathi P. Rajkumar of DMK leads with 1,27,784 votes, BJP is second with 1,02,784 votes and AIADMK’s Singai Ramachandran has 53,811 votes.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor appears to be headed for a fourth consecutive term from Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. With only around 50,000 votes left to be counted, Mr. Tharoor has amassed a sizeable lead of 11,281 votes over BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
Priyanka Gandhi: "Kishori bhaiya, I never had any doubts, I was sure from the beginning that you will win. Hearty congratulations to you and mydear brothers and sisters of Amethi!"
Union Tribal Affairs and Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda is trailing in Jharkhand's prestigious Khunti (ST) seat by about 97,345 votes over his nearest Congress rival Kalicharan Munda.
BJP’s Govind Makthappa Karjol won the Chitradurga Lok Sabha seat by a margin of over 48,000 votes against Congress’s B.N. Chandrappa.
Congress candidate Geniben Thakor is leading in Banaskantha by over 20,000 votes. In Banaskantha
gaping at one of its worst electoral defeats from Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati- led Bahujan Samaj Party is running behind in all 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. presently, the BSP has garnered about1.92 votes in the country and9.16 votes in Uttar Pradesh, as per Election Commission data.
At2.00p.m., according to the bean panel, Samajwadi Party campaigners were leading on 37 Lok Sabha seats in the politically pivotalU.P., while their INDIA bloc supporter Congress was leading on seven seats.
The INDIA bloc was leading in 44 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh and the BJP- led NDA in 35, according to trends on the Election Commission website.
INDIA bloc parties SP and Congress were leading in 37 and 7 seats, the election panel’s data for pates to the 80 administrative constituencies in the state showed.
The Bharatiya Janata Party( BJP) was leading in 33 seats and its abettors Rashtriya Lok Dal and Apna Dal in one seat each.
Indian National Congress (INC) delegation will meet the Election Commission of India at 3:30 p.m. on June 4, 2024.
AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi was leading by votes against his nearest BJP rivalK. Madhavi Latha at3.05 PM in the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency in Telangana as the counting of votes was underway.Mr. Owaisi got, while Madhavi Latha secured votes, according to the Election Commission website.
The JD(S), headed by former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, emerged victorious in Mandya Lok Sabha constituency and is leading in Kolar by over 71,000 votes. The regional outfit joined the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in September last year and fought the Lok Sabha elections in alliance with the BJP, and was contesting in three seats — Mandya, Hassan and Kolar.
AAP candidate Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer won in Punjab’s Sangrur Lok Sabha seat against SAD (Amritsar) nominee Simranjit Singh Mann by over 1.7 lakh votes, according to the Election Commission.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi will address the press at AICC Headquarters in New Delhi at 5:30 p.m. on June 4,
Congress candidate Anuradha Rana on Tuesday won the Lahaul and Spiti bypolls by defeating Independent candidate and former BJP minister Ram Lal Markanda by a margin of 1,960 votes.
It was after 52 years that a woman contested elections from Lahaul and Spiti and Rana became the second woman to win from the assembly segment.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge’s son-in-law Radhakrishna Doddamani won the Gulbarga seat in Karnataka by 27,205 votes.
Akhilesh Yadav’s stock rose dramatically with his Samajwadi Party cutting the ruling BJP down to size in Uttar Pradesh. As the trends came in, the SP was leading on 34 seats as against the BJP’s 36 seats. The census is a spoiler for the BJP which had claimed it'll sweep the State from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an MP.
Jharkhand Election Results 2024: BJP is trailing JMM in five seats in Jharkhand despite the raid on former CM and JMM president Hemant Soren.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Anil Desai won the Mumbai South-Central seat by a margin of 53,384 votes, defeating sitting Shiv Sena MP Rahul Shewale.
At least 15 Muslim candidates are leading in various constituencies across the country, including the TMC candidate from Berhampore, Yusuf Pathan who has maintained a comfortable lead against Congress veteran Adhir Ranjan Choudhary. A total of 78 Muslims were in the fray in the Lok Sabha elections this year.
Congress candidate Imran Masood from Saharanpur is leading by. over 80,000 votes while Iqra Choudhary, a 29-year-old candidate from Kairana is also leading by over 60,000. Afzal Ansari, incumbent MP from Ghazipur, is also leading in his seat by over 1 lakh votes while AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi is leading by over 3 lakh votes in Hyderabad where he is also the incumbent MP.
PM Modi wins Varanasi seat, defeats Congress’s Ajay Rai
Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat, defeating Congress’s Ajay Rai by a margin of 1,52,513 votes, as per Election Commission data.
The Bharatiya Janata Party( BJP) won Ahmedabad East, Ahmedabad West, Mahesana and Junagadh Lok Sabha constituencies in Gujarat as the Election Commision of India declared early results of the Lok Sabha choices.
Patel won from Ahmedabad East by a periphery of4.61 lakh votes, Dinesh Makwana won from Ahmedabad West by2.86 lakh votes, Haribhai Patel won from Mahesana by3.28 lakh votes and Rajesh Chudasama won from Junagadh by1.35 lakh votes.
All of them defeated their nearest Congress rivals.H.S. Patel and Chudasama were sitting MPs while Haribhai Patel and Makwana are new faces.
Independents Engineer Rashid, Amritpal Singh, Indira Gandhi’s assassin’s son Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa close to electoral victory
Both ‘kingmakers’ Janata Dal (U) and TDP will attend an NDA meet to be held in New Delhi on June 5 as INDIA alliance leaders are set to meet on the same day to decide the future course of action.
