Election Results 2024 | People's Verdict: Mandate For Modi 3.0 And Stronger Opposition In Lok Sabha

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is poised to form the government for a third consecutive term with the BJP-led NDA getting a majority in the Lok Sabha, notwithstanding losses in three Hindi heartland states after a bitterly fought election.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, whose candidates had contested in the name of Modi, won or was ahead in 240 seats, falling short of the 272 majority mark and needing the support of allies in the party-led National Democratic Alliance(NDA) for government formation, a far cry from the 303 and 282 seats it had won in 2019 and 2014 respectively to have a majority on its own.

With support from BJP's key allies N Chandrababu Naidu's TDP and Nitish Kumar's JD(U), which were leading or winning 16 and 12 seats in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar respectively, and other alliance partners, the NDA crossed the halfway mark and appeared to be on course to bag around 290 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha. The TDP also swept the assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh dislodging YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSRCP.

Preparing to take office for a record-equalling historic third term, Prime Minister Modi pledged to work with all states, regardless of the party in power, to build a developed India. 

Union minister Anurag Thakur won the Hamirpur parliamentary seat for the fifth consecutive time, defeating his nearest rival from Congress Satpal Raizada by a margin of 1,82,357 votes.

The senior BJP leader polled 6,07,068 votes against 4,24,711 votes bagged by Raizada, a former MLA from Una, according to the Election Commission.

Expressing confidence that the BJP-led NDA would once again form its government at the Centre, Thakur said India had progressed a lot under Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the last 10 years and this process would continue.

The people of Himachal Pradesh have given their hundred per cent support to the BJP and it would return to them the same once its government is formed again, he added.

The BJP-led NDA on Tuesday got a simple majority in the Lok Sabha elections by winning 273 seats. While results for 498 seats were declared by the Election Commission, counting on 45 seats was still on.

According to the tally on the EC website, the BJP has already won 226 seats, and its allies TDP and JDU won 12 seats each, Shiv Sena 7, LJP (Ram Vilas) 5 and JDS and RLD two seats each.

Other NDA partners including Jana Sena, NCP, UPPL, AJSU, HAMS, SKM and Apna Dal (Sone Lal) have won one seat each.

The BJP had already won the Surat Lok Sabha seat unopposed.

BJP's Yogender Chandoliya wins Northwest Delhi seat by more than 2.90 lakh votes, defeats Congress candidate Udit Raj, according to Election Commission.

The INDI bloc leaders will meet at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence on Wednesday evening to decide on their further strategy and whether to reach out to their former allies Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu for government formation.

Top opposition leaders of the alliance would be meeting at 6 PM at the 10, Rajaji Marg residence of the Congress president where they would discuss their way forward, news agency PTI reported citing sources. The leaders will deliberate on the Lok Sabha poll results and on whether to bring on board the JDU and TDP in moving towards government formation.

Opposition leaders including Sharad Pawar, Mamata Banerjee, M K Stalin, Champai Soren, Uddhav Thackeray, Akhilesh Yadav, Sitaram Yechury, D Raja and others are likely to attend the meeting, along with top Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav wins Kannauj Lok Sabha seat by a margin of 1,70,922 votes, according to data compiled by the Election Commission.

Congress candidate Gaurav Gogoi wrests Jorhat seat in Assam from BJP MP Topon Kumar Gogoi by a margin of 1,44,393 votes, according to Election Commission.

Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal has won the Dibrugarh Lok Sabha seat in Assam by 2.79 lakh votes, according to data compiled by the Election Commission.

JDS patriarch HD Deve Gowda congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for leading the NDA to victory, and expressed confidence that his third term will be "eventful" and mean progress for India.

"I congratulate PM @narendramodi avaru for leading the NDA to victory. Am very confident that his third term will be eventful and mean progress for India," Gowda, a former PM said in a post on social media platform X.

The JDS, which is part of the NDA, had contested in three Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka, and managed to win two of them.

The Lok Sabha election results do not fully reflect the unanimous thinking of the people but have come out in favour of "those who wield authority and money power and undertook a false campaign", AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami said on Tuesday.

Playing down the party's poll debacle, he said the election results have been on expected lines in favour of those who wield authority. "The election results will not discourage us. We have learnt a lesson on how to face the 2026 assembly elections. We will ensure a huge victory in the 2026 assembly polls," Palaniswami said in a statement.

Congress won both the Lok Sabha seats in strife-torn Manipur on Tuesday, according to the Election Commission.

Alfred Kanngam S Arthur won the Outer Manipur seat by 85,418 votes, defeating his nearest rival Kachui Timothy Zimik of the NPF. Arthur secured 3,84,954 votes, while Zimik bagged 2,99,536 votes.

In the Inner Manipur seat, Angomcha Bimol Akoijam defeated his nearest rival Thounaojam Basantakumar of the BJP by 1,09,801 votes. Akoijam got 3,74,017 votes and Singh received 2,64,216 votes.

BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan has won from Vidisha Lok Sabha constituency in Madhya Pradesh by a whopping 8,21,408 votes, defeating his nearest Congress rival.

The former MP chief minister got 11,16,460 votes while Congress candidate Pratap Bhanu Sharma, a two-time parliamentarian, managed to secure 2,95,052 votes.

This was Chouhan's sixth victory from Vidisha, once represented by BJP stalwarts like former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1991), Sushma Swaraj (2009 and 2014) and newspaper baron Ramnath Goenka (1971).

The BJP asserted on Tuesday that the Lok Sabha poll victory for its alliance underlines people's faith and confidence in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of "Viksit Bharat".

Home Minister Amit Shah said on X that the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) third consecutive victory in the national election has shown that people's trust is only in Modi. The voters' support is their blessing for the prime minister's work in the last 10 years for the welfare of the poor and farmers, revival of heritage and self-respect of women.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said the NDA's poll triumph is a victory of Modi's policies and his dedication towards the welfare of the poor. The people of India have expressed their immense faith in Modi's leadership, he said.

"This is the first time after 1962 that a government after completing two terms has returned to power for the third consecutive time. The NDA has also swept the states - Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh - where Assembly elections were held. The Congress has been wiped out in these states. The BJP for the first time will form the government in Odisha. It has also performed exceptionally in Lok Sabha polls in Odisha," says PM Modi at BJP headquarters in Delhi.

INDI alliance couldn't even come closer to BJP's winning numbers: PM Modi at BJP headquarters 

"The voters of Jammu and Kashmir have shown unprecedented enthusiasm by voting in record numbers. They have also shown a mirror to those who try to defame the nation. I salute the people of this occasion of victory," says PM Modi at BJP headquarters in Delhi.

'This was my first polls since my mother's death. This is an emotional moment for me,' said PM Modi in post-victory speech

“Today's mandate is the victory of  of biggest democracy in the world. Grateful to the nation for trusting NDA,” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing party workers at BJP headquarters in Delhi after NDA wins majority.

Janasena chief Pawan Kalyan won the Pithapuram Assembly seat defeating his YSR Congress Party rival Vanga Geetha by a margin of over 70,000 votes.

The Janasena party, which contested 21 Assembly and two Lok Sabha constituencies, has performed well by winning or leading in all seats.

Kalyan polled 1,34,394 votes while his nearest rival Geetha secured 64,115 votes, according to Election Commission data.

The BJP on Tuesday made a clean sweep in Himachal Pradesh, winning all four Lok Sabha seats.

Union Minister Anurag Thakur won for the fifth time in a row from the Hamirpur Lok sabha seat, actor Kangana Ranaut and Rajiv Bharadwaj made their maiden debut from Mandi and Kangra seats while former BJP state president Suresh Kashyap retained his Shimla seat.

In a major upset in the Faizabad parliamentary constituency, where the temple town of Ayodhya is situated, Samajwadi Party candidate Awadhesh Prasad defeated sitting BJP MP Lallu Singh by a margin of 54,567 votes.

According to the Election Commission data, Prasad polled 5,54,289 votes while Lallu Singh got 4,99,722. The BSP's Sachidanand Pandey managed to secure 46,407 votes.

In all, 13 candidates were in the fray in Faizabad.

BJP leader and Union minister Jitendra Singh has won the Udhampur Lok Sabha seat for the third time, defeating Congress candidate Choudhary Lal Singh.

After maintaining a narrow lead in the early rounds of counting, Jitendra Singh emerged victorious, equalling the feat of veteran Congress leader Karan Singh, who held the seat in 1971, 1977, and 1980.

Singh, who previously won the seat in 2014 and 2019, secured 571076 votes, defeating Choudhary Lal Singh by a margin of 1,24,373 votes, the Election Commission of India website, said.

The Congress on Tuesday created history by winning the lone Lok Sabha seat in Nagaland after a gap of 20 years, the ECI said.

The party does not have any MLA in the state assembly.

Congress candidate S Supongmeren Jamir defeated his nearest rival Chumben Murry of the NDPP, a BJP ally, by a margin of 50,984 votes, Sushil Kumar Patel, returning officer for the Lok Sabha polls, told reporters.

Jamir polled 4,01,951 votes, while Murry got 3,50,967 votes and Independent candidate Hayithung Tungoe Lotha got 6,232 votes, he said..

This was the first major win for the Congress that does not have any MLA in the state assembly since 2014. The party had last won the Lok Sabha seat in 1999.

PM Modi receives warm welcome at BJP headquarters in New Delhi

BJP's Ramvir Singh Bidhuri won the South Delhi seat, defeating AAP's Sahi Ram Pahalwan by a margin of 1,24,333 votes.

Bidhuri is the leader of opposition in the Delhi Assembly.

He was fielded by the BJP in place of outgoing MP Ramesh Bidhuri. The BJP won all seven seats in Delhi in the 2014 and the 2019 general elections, and is set to repeat the feat this time too.

In the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress fielded candidates in three of the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi and the Aam Aadmi Party in four as part of a seat-sharing agreement between the two constituents of the INDIA bloc.

BJP candidate Arun Govil, who played the role of Lord Ram in the popular TV serial Ramayana, won from the Meerut Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, defeating his nearest rival Sunita Verma of the Samajwadi Party.

Govil won by a margin of 10,585 votes.

He secured 5,46,469 votes, SP's Sunita Verma got 5,35,884 votes and BSP's Devvrat Kumar Tyagi got 87,025 votes.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday won the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh by a margin of 3,90,030 votes, bettering his mother Sonia Gandhi's victory margin in 2019.

According to the Election Commission (EC), Rahul Gandhi secured a total of 6,87,649 votes against the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Dinesh Pratap Singh who got 2,97,619 votes. Thakur Prasad Yadav of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) secured 21,624 votes.

BJP candidate Dilip Ghosh, the previous West Bengal state president of the saffron party, was defeated in Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency by a margin of 1,37,981 votes, the Election Commission said on Tuesday. He was defeated by Kirti Azad, the cricketer-turned-candidate of the Trinamool Congress.

The Rashtriya Lok Dal, a BJP ally in Uttar Pradesh, registered its first win in the Lok Sabha elections in the state.

According to the Election Commission data, in Bijnor, RLD's Chandan Chauhan defeated his nearest rival Deepak of the Samajwadi Party by a margin of 37,508 votes.

Chauhan polled 4,04,493 votes, while Deepak bagged 3,66,985 votes.

As many as 11 candidates were in the fray from Bijnor Lok Sabha seat.

DMK leader and former Union Minister A Raja won from the Nilgiris Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu, defeating Central Minister L Murugan by a margin of 2,40,585 votes, according to the Election Commission.

Raja, who established a clear lead since the counting of votes was taken up in the morning, secured 4,73,212 votes while Murugan polled 2,32,627 votes. AIADMK's D Logesh Tamilselvan finished third, obtaining 2,20,230 votes.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday won the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala with a margin of over 3.5 lakh votes against CPI's Annie Raja, according to figures released by the Election Commission.

Gandhi got 6,47,445 votes which was lower than the 7,06,367 votes he got in 2019 from the same constituency.

This time he won by a margin of 3,64,422 votes against his nearest rival, CPI's Annie Raja who got 2,83,023 votes.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP chief JP Nadda arrive at BJP headquarters as NDA inches towards victory. 

PM Modi thanks people for placing faith in NDA, tweets, “People have placed their faith in NDA, for a third consecutive time! This is a historical feat in India’s history. I bow to the Janata Janardan for this affection and assure them that we will continue the good work done in the last decade to keep fulfilling the aspirations of people. I also salute all our Karyakartas for their hard work. Words will never do justice to their exceptional efforts.”

BJP's Anita Nagar Singh Chauhan defeated Congress leader and former Union minister Kantilal Bhuria by 2,07,232 votes in Ratlam-Jhabua (ST) Lok Sabha constituency of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. This is for the first time that a woman has won from the seat.

BJP's Praveen Khandelwal wins Delhi's Chandni Chowk seat, defeating Congress' J P Agarwal by margin of 89,325 votes

BJP candidate and actor-turned-politician Suresh Gopi won the Thrissur Lok Sabha seat by a remarkable margin of 74,686, according to the Election Commission on Tuesday.

With this, the saffron party opened its maiden account in the state for the lower house of Parliament.

Gopi defeated CPI leader V S Sunilkumar in an exciting fight. While Gopi garnered a total of 4,12,338 votes, Sunilkumar had to make do with 3,37,652 votes, according to the EC figures.

Two Samajwadi Party candidates - Pushpendra Saroj and Priya Saroj - are set to become the youngest candidates to win the Lok Sabha polls at 25 years of age, while DMK's T R Baalu (82) might become the oldest member to register victory.

Eleven candidates older than 80 years of age and 537 in the age group of 25-30 contested the Lok Sabha elections.

Pushpendra Saroj (Kaushambi constituency) and Priya Saroj (Machhlishahr constituency), both leading with comfortable margins, are set to become the youngest members of the Lok Sabha at 25.

Baalu (82), a six-time MP from DMK, is set to become the oldest member of the Lok Sabha. He is leading with a margin of 3.89 lakh.

Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, the TDP candidate from Guntur, is set to become the richest winner with assets valued at Rs 5,700 crore. Pemmasani is leading by over 3.3 lakh votes.

BJP’s Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, who contested from the Chevella seat in neighbouring Telangana, holds the second highest assets worth Rs 4,568 crore and is also poised to win. Reddy is ahead with a comfortable margin of over 1.5 lakh votes.

Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav has won from the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat while he and three others from the Yadav clan are leading by a comfortable margin, according to Election Commission figures. Dimple won from the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat by a margin of 2,21,639 votes, defeating her nearest rival BJP's Jaiveer Singh. She polled 5,98,526 votes, while Singh got 3,76,887 votes. BSP candidate Shiv Prasad Yadav got 66,814 votes.

D K Suresh, brother of Deputy Chief Minister and state Congress chief D K Shivakumar, was defeated in the Bangalore Rural constituency by BJP's C N Manjunath on Tuesday, in a big blow to the ruling party in Karnataka. The 58-year-old three-time MP, who was the only Congress candidate to win the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka, lost by 2,69,647votes, in what is seen as a setback to Shivakumar.

Manjunath polled 10,79,002 votes and Suresh 8,09,355.

BJP's Mahesh Sharma on Tuesday secured his third straight Lok Sabha election victory from Gautam Buddh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh by a huge margin of 5.59 lakh votes.

Sharma bagged 8,57,829 votes (59.69 per cent of the total 14,37,244 votes), according to Election Commission website figures at 6.30 pm.

Samajwadi Party's Mahendra Singh Nagar got 2,98,357 (20.76 per cent) votes while Bahujan Samaj Party's Rajendra Singh Solanki bagged 2,51,615 (17.51 per cent) votes, the EC showed.

Samajwadi Party candidate Dharmendra Yadav defeated his nearest rival Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat by a margin of 1,61,035 votes on Tuesday. While Yadav polled 5,08,239 votes, Nirahua got 3,47,204 and BSP candidate Mohammad Sabeeha Ansari got 1,79839 votes.

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi wins from Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituenc by defeating BJP's Madhavi Latha by 3 Lakh votes

Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha won from the Asansol Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal on Tuesday, the ECI said. The TMC leader defeated his nearest rival S S Ahluwalia of the BJP by a margin of 59,564 votes. Sinha secured 6,05,645 votes, while Ahluwalia garnered 5,46,081 votes.

Cricketer-turned-politician Kirti Azad defeated his nearest rival Dilip Ghosh of the BJP by 1,37,981 votes in Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha seat. Azad, the TMC candidate, secured 7,20,667 votes, while Ghosh, a former state BJP president, got 5,82,686 votes.

BJP's Vivek Bunty Sahu defeats Congress' Nakul Nath in Chhindwara Lok Sabha seat of Madhya Pradesh.

“I am happy that the Prime Minister did not get the majority figure. The Prime Minister has lost credibility, he should resign immediately because he had said that this time they would cross 400 seats,” said Mamata Banerjee.

Congress' Gurjeet Singh Aujla wins from Amritsar, defeats AAP's Kuldeep

On Lok Sabha election results, TMC chairperson Mamata Banerjee said, "Even after causing so many atrocities, spending so much money, this arrogance of Modi ji and Amit Shah, INDI has won and Modi has lost. They have even lost in Ayodhya."

BJP MP Gopal Jee Thakur on Tuesday retained the Darbhanga Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, defeating his nearest RJD rival by a margin of over 1.78 lakh votes, the Election Commission said. Thakur polled 5.67 lakh votes, as against 3.88 lakh by Lalit Yadav, a former state minister who was contesting on the RJD ticket.

Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna loses by a margin of 42,649 votes as Congress' Shreyas M Patel wins.

"The INDI alliance and Congress didn't just contest this election against a political party, but this election was fought against BJP, governance structure, intelligence agencies, CBI, ED and half judiciary. Because all these institutions were captured and threated by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah," said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

"You are aware that Congress and INDIA alliance fought the elections in a very adverse environment. Government machinery created hurdles at every step, from seizing back accounts to acting against several (opposition) leaders. From beginning to end, Congress' campaign was positive; we raised issues of inflation, unemployment, agrarian crisis and attack on constitutional bodies. The campaign run by PM Modi will be remembered in history for a long time," said Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge.

"The election results announced today... I will say... this is public's result and public's and democracy's victory. We had been saying that this battle is between public and Modi. We humbly accept the people's mandate. This time, the public did not complete majority to any one party, especially, ruling party BJP sought votes on the basis of 'one person, one face'. This is their political and moral defeat," said Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge.

“We respect people's mandate. This is a win for democracy. No clear majority to any party,” Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge addresses media.

Union Minister and BJP candidate Faggan Singh Kulaste on Tuesday defeated Congress's Omkar Singh Markam by a margin of 1,03,846 votes from the Mandla (ST) seat in Madhya Pradesh.

Markam is a sitting Congress MLA from the Dindori (ST) assembly seat.

Kulaste polled 7,51,375 votes, while Markam bagged 6,47,529 votes, an official said.

BJP candidate Bansuri Swaraj wins from New Delhi constituency seat

BJP's Karan Bhushan Singh, son of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, won by 148843 votes from UP's Kaiserganj

Union Minister Amit Shah wins Gandhinagar Lok Sabha Seat in Gujarat by over 7.44 lakh votes defeating Sonal Ramanbhai Patel of Congress

BJP's Bjola Singh won by 27,5134 votes from UP's Bulandshahr seat
 

TMC's Yusuf Pathan defeats Congress' Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury by over 85,000 votes in BEngal's Behrampore seat. 

BJP's Kalaben Delkar retains Dadra and Nagar Haveli Lok Sabha seat by defeating Congress rival Ajit Mahala by 57,000 votes.
 

• Union Minister Amit Shah leading by over 7.44 lakh votes in Gandhinagar constituency of Gujarat
• Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan leading by 1,13,132 votes in Odisha's Sambalpur
• BJP's Pratap Chandra Sarangi leading by 1,00,873 votes in Odisha's Balasore 
• BJP's Sambit Patra leading by 99,604 votes in Odisha's Puri seat
• BJP's  Baijayant Panda leading in Odisha's Kendrapara by 27,892 votes

Congress candidate Dr Dharamvira Gandhi won by margin of 14831 votes at 305616 votes from Punjab's Patiala
 

BJP leader Om Birla wins from Rajasthan's Kota Lok Sabha constituency seat

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won his Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency seat by a margin of 15, 2513 votes

BJP candidate Mahima Kumari Mewar wins Rajasthan's Rajsamand Lok Sabha seat by margin of 3,92,223 votes, defeating Congress' Damodar Gurjar.

The BJP is leading in 19 of the 21 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha, election officials said. BJD candidate is leading in one seat and Congress nominee in one constituency.

Union Minister and BJP candidate Dharmendra Pradhan is leading from the Sambalpur Lok Sabha seat by 1,12,984 votes over his nearest BJD rival Pranab Prakash Das.

BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra is also leading by 93,555 votes over his nearest rival Arup Patnaik of the BJD in the Puri Lok Sabha seat.

BJP candidate Aparajita Sarangi is leading over her nearest rival Manmath Routray of the BJD by 32,282 votes in the Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha constituency.

NCP's Sunil Dattatray Tatkare Wins Maharashtra's Raigad Lok Sabha Seat by 82784 votes, Defeats Anant Geete

Congress' Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, looked to be headed for a comprehensive defeat in his home turf of Baharampur. Chowdhury, as per ECI data, was trailing with almost 60,000 votes behind Trinamool Congress’s star candidate and cricketer-turned-politician Yusuf Pathan even as counting drew to a near close.

Owing to Chowdhury’s possible defeat in the Baharampur parliamentary seat, among the last-standing perceived Congress fortresses of the state, this would be the first time that Trinamool Congress would have its flag grafted and flying from the region.

DMK candidate for Erode Parliamentary constituency K E Prakash leads by over 1.4 lakh votes against his nearest AIADMK rival P Ashok Kumar.

BJP's Kriti Devi Debbarman, sister of Tipra Motha founder Pradyot Debbarma, won the Tripura East Lok Sabha, defeating her nearest rival Rajendra Reang of the CPI(M) by 4,86,819 votes, according to the Election Commission's website. She polled 7,77,447 votes as against 2,90,628 by Reang.

The Congress registered victory in two seats and leading in five constituencies seats in Punjab, while the Aam Aadmi Party won one seat and is ahead in two, according to the Election Commission of India.

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) was leading in one parliamentary constituency while the two independents, including radical preacher Amritpal Singh, were also ahead.

Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi won from the Jalandhar reserve parliamentary constituency after defeating BJP candidate Sushil Rinku.

Out of 543 seats, BJP-led NDA is leading in 296 seats, INDI alliance in 229 seats, and Others in 18 seats

After meeting the ECI, Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, "We received the report from state units and candidates that after 2:30 PM, there is a delay in the updation on ECI websites. The second complaint was that there is no updation based on the parliamentary constituency. We haven't put any allegation, we just asked that updates be provided. The Election Commission has listened to us. They have said they won't let it delay any kind of updation."

Indore secures BJP's second seat in Madhya Pradesh, Shankar Lalwani wins Indore seat by 1175092 votes

BJP's Rajeev Chandrasekhar concedes defeat in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat as Congress' Shashi Tharoor wins

Former Bihar CM and Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) founder Jitan Ram Manjhi wins from Gaya Lok Sabha seat.

Former Karnataka CM and BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai wins from Haveri Lok Sabha seat.
 

Congress candidate Amar Singh won by 34202 votes at 332591 votes from Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab.
 

Shiv Sena UBT candidate Anil Desai leads by over 53777 votes against Shiv Sena's Rahul Shewale in Mumbai South Central parliamentary seat 

"First of all, I want to congratulate the public of Kaiserganj. Second, I want to congratulate the people of Devipatan Mandal, which has four seats out of which we are winning three seats. The people have proved that it is the bastion of the BJP," says BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh as his son and candidate from Kaiserganj, Karan Bhushan Singh, leads in the constituency.

Congress turncoat from Himachal's Sujanpur assembly seat Rajinder Rana loses to Captain Ranjit Singh by a margin of 2,440 votes.

UP Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna said, "We are winning the Shahjahanpur Lok Sabha seat. We will form the government at the centre. The celebrations of the Congress party are temporary. Let them celebrate till the final results are out. Victory will be ours. PM Modi will become the Prime Minister."
 

Shashi Tharoor, Congress' leading candidate from Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency said, "This is the blessing for the 4th time and I will do my best to be worthy of that trust to serve them well. The world T20 is going on but super over was here...BJP put up an enormous fight...One important message of Suresh Gopi in Thrissur is that his systematic outreach to minority communities. It is a very strong message to BJP that communal campaign won't go very far in Kerala..."
 

AIMIM MP from Maharashtra's Aurangabad Lok Sabha seat, Imtiaz Jaleel, was trailing behind his Shiv Sena rival Sandipan Bhumre by more than 36,000 votes, as per the latest EC data. Bhumre has so far got 2,62,664 votes, while Jaleel got 2,25,735 votes.

Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate Chandrakant Khaire was at the third place with 1,65,273 votes, the official said.

Chirag Paswan, president of the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), asserted that he was "firmly" with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"Once again- Modi Government! I and my party Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) stand firmly in support of the country's successful Prime Minister, respected Shri @narendramodi ji. NDA is going to form the government with full majority under the leadership of Prime Minister ji. The country is going to get a strong and powerful government for the third time again," he posted on X .

While Paswan was leading from the Hajipur seat, candidates of his party were ahead of their rivals in four other constituencies in Bihar, according to the Election Commission.

BJP victory margins in Uttar Pradesh are very narrow, saidNCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar. He further added that an INDI alliance meeting is likely in Delhi tomorrow.

Over speculations on social media of him speaking to JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar says "I have not spoken with anyone yet."

BJP candidate Govind Makthappa Karjol wins Chitradurga constituency in Karnataka with 68, 4890 votes

BJP candidate from Mandi and actor Kangana Ranaut says, "We fought this election in the name of Narendra Modi. It is the result of his credibility and his guarantee and the faith of people in him that we are going to form the government for the third time..."

BJP is leading in all four parliamentary constituencies in Himachal Pradesh.

The INDI 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.

INDI bloc parties SP and Congress were leading in 37 and 7 seats, the election panel's data for polls to the 80 parliamentary constituencies in the state showed.

The BJP was leading in 33 seats and its allies Rashtriya Lok Dal and Apna Dal in one seat each.

Chandrashekhar of Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) was leading by 1,09,799 votes over BJP's Om Kumar.

The BJP was leading in eight Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand, its ally AJSU Party in one, while the Congress was ahead in two and the JMM in three seats, according to available trends.

Union Minister and sitting MP Arjun Munda was trailing to Congress's Kalicharan Munda in Khunti Lok Sabha seat by around 1.02 lakh votes, according to the Election Commission.

Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah has gained an unassailable lead of 6.15 lakh votes over his nearest Congress rival Sonal Patel in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat, officials said on Tuesday.

Shah has so far got 7.96 lakh votes, while Patel received 1.81 lakh votes, they said.

PM Modi to reach BJP headquarters at 7 PM

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, Sharma is leading by 88,908 votes.

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.

Lok Sabha election trends at 2 pm showed the margin to be more than two lakh votes in four of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, with BJP’s Mahesh Sharma in Gautam Buddh Nagar so far drawing the biggest lead.

The other seats where the margin of lead was over two lakh votes were Bulandshahr, Mathura and Rae Bareli (Congress’s Rahul Gandhi), according to Election Commission figures at 2 pm.

In Gautam Buddh Nagar, BJP’s Mahesh Sharma was leading by a margin of over 3.32 lakh votes against Samajwadi Party’s Mahendra Singh Nagar.

In Rae Bareli, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi was ahead by a margin of 2.49 lakh votes against BJP’s Dinesh Singh.

In Bulandshahr, BJP’s Bhola Singh had a lead of over 2.69 lakh votes with Congress’ Shivram in second position.

In Mathura, BJP’s Hema Malini was leading by a margin of 2.14 lakh votes against Congress’s Mukesh Dhangar.

The counting of votes for Lok Sabha elections 2024 is still underway and final results will come later today.

Chandrashekhar Azad, Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) candidate from Uttar Pradesh's Nagina Lok Sabha seat, is leading from the constituency with 93,431 more votes than his nearest rival candidate from the BJP, Om Kumar, according to the latest trend put out by the Election Commission.

Former Punjab CM and Congress candidate Charanjit Singh Channi, wins from Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat; defeats BJP candidate Sushil Kumar Rinku by a margin of 1,75,993 votes.

TMC's Mahua Moitra, who is seeking re-election from West Bengal's Krishnanagar seat, is leading with a vote margin of 60527 against BJP candidate Amrita Roy, as per ECI.Bharatiya Janata Party's Amrita Roy has so far garnered 238294 votes. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Mahua Moitra won from Krishnanagar Lok Sabha seat by winning 614,872 votes.

BJP's Manju Sharma wins Jaipur seat by margin of 3,31,767 votes against Congress candidate and former minister Pratap Singh Khachariawas: EC data.

 "We always said that all three constituencies in Murshidabad will be won by the TMC and this is what has happened," says TMC candidate from Murshidabad Lok Sabha constituency Abu Taher Khan.
 

BJP workers chant Hanuman Chalisa at BJP headquarters in Delhi. As per official ECI trends, the BJP has won 2 seats and is leading on 239 so far. 

Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah called up TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu and congratulated him: TDP sources

As per official ECI trends, TDP is leading on 16 Lok Sabha seats and is leading on 131 Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh. Counting for both the elections are underway.

Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar to address media at 3 PM

Union Minister And BJP candidate from Bikaner Lok Sabha seat Arjun Ram Meghwal said, “I thank the BJP workers and voters for ensuring my victory for the fourth time...My priority will be to ensure Bikaner becomes 'Viksit Bikaner'...NDA is forming the government...” As per official ECI trends, he is leading by a margin of 65,042 votes.

BJP national vice-president Baijayant Panda was leading in the Kendrapara Lok Sabha constituency in Odisha by 13,714 votes on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Election Commission.

Anshusman Mohanty of the BJD was at the second spot, while Congress candidate Siddharth Swarup Dash was in the third position.

The BJP has maintained an impressive lead in 10 out of 11 Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh, as per trends available so far. The Congress has managed a lead only in the Korba seat where its sitting MP Jyotsna Mahant, wife of the incumbent leader of opposition Charandas Mahant, was leading by a margin of 8,304 votes over the BJP's influential woman leader Saroj Pandey.

In the high-profile Rajnandgaon seat, Congress leader and former chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, who was initially leading, was trailing by a margin of 33,512 votes against the BJP's sitting MP Santosh Pandey.

BJP's influential leader, Brijmohan Agrawal, was leading by a significant margin of 2,04,684 votes against Congress' Vikas Upadhyay in the crucial Raipur seat.

In Durg, BJP's sitting MP Vijay Baghel was ahead against his nearest rival, Rajendra Sahu of Congress, by 1,82,933 votes.

In the Naxalite-hit Bastar seat (Scheduled Tribe reserved), BJP's Mahesh Kashyap was leading by a margin of 29,722 votes against Congress firebrand leader Kawasi Lakhma.

In the Bilaspur seat, BJP's Tokhan Sahu, a former MLA, was leading by a margin of 40,594 votes against Congress' Devendra Yadav, an incumbent MLA.

In the lone SC-reserved Janjgir-Champa seat, BJP woman leader Kamlesh Jangde was ahead by a margin of 42,716 votes against Congress candidate and former state minister Shivkumar Dahariya.

Apart from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there are 11 Union ministers in the fray from the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh which sends 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha.

Those who are leading currently are: PM Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, MoS Finance Pankaj Chaudhary, MoS Law and Justice SP Singh Baghel, and Mos Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti.

Those currently trailing are: Smriti Irani, Mahendra Nath Pandey, Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Anupriya Patel, Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, Kaushal Kishore and Ajay Mishra Teni.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh are leading from their Varanasi and Lucknow Lok Sabha seats, respectively.

According to the Election Commission, at 12.30 pm PM Modi was leading by 79,566 votes over Ajay Rai of the Congress.

In Lucknow, Rajnath Singh is leading by 19,642 votes against SP's Ravidas Mehrotra.

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.

Atul Garg, who replaced former union minister V K Singh as BJP's Ghaziabad Lok Sabha candidate, was leading by a margin of over 1.14 lakh votes, poll trends from the Election Commission showed Tuesday.

Garg had polled over 3.26 lakh votes as compared to Congress' Dolly Sharma who bagged 2.11 lakh votes and Bahujan Samaj Party's Nand Kishor Pundir who got 38,653 votes till 1.15 pm.

Singh, a former Army chief, had won from Ghaziabad with a margin of over 5 lakh votes in the Lok Sabha polls of 2014 and 2019.

"I think it’s time to accept the inevitable. Congratulations to Engineer Rashid for his victory in North Kashmir. I don’t believe his victory will hasten his release from prison nor will the people of North Kashmir get the representation they have a right to but the voters have spoken and in a democracy that’s all that matters," tweets JKNC vice-president and Baramulla Lok Sabha candidate Omar Abdullah.

The BJP is ahead of the Congress in all four Lok Sabha seats in Himachal Pradesh, according to Election Commission data.

BJP candidate from Mandi Kangana Ranaut is leading by a margin of 74,925 votes over her Congress rival Vikramaditya Singh. Union minister Anurag Thakur, seeking a fifth term from the Hamirpur seat, is ahead by a margin of 1,62,916 votes over Congress' Satpal Raizada, the EC data showed.

Former state BJP president and sitting party MP from Shimla Suresh Kashyap is leading by 88,295 votes and BJP Kangra nominee Rajiv Bhardwaj by 2,43,173 votes.

Bhardwaj's Congress rival Anand Sharma has conceded defeat.

BJP candidate from Karnataka's Dharwad, Pralhad Joshi leading by a margin of 85,971 votes as per official ECI trends.

As per official ECI trends, Congress is leading on 95 seats and INDIA bloc has crossed 200. 

Delhi: Union Minister and BJP candidate from Mumbai North, Piyush Goyal says, "I want to thank the voters of North Mumbai for blessing us. As per the trends, BJP is leading by around 1.25 lakh votes and if this continues, we will surely win the North Mumbai seat and in India, BJP-led NDA will form its govt and serve the people of the country..."

BJP candidate Jyotiraditya Scindia wins in Madhya Pradesh's Guna seat

Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Piyush Goyal have established a clear lead in their respective constituencies in Maharashtra, as per the latest trends of counting for the Lok Sabha elections.

According to the Election Commission, Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has bagged 2,56,448 votes, leading by 1,26,802 over his nearest rival from the Congress in the Mumbai North constituency.

Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari is ahead by 46,434 votes against Congress's Vikas Thakre after securing 2,51,217 votes so far in the Nagpur Lok Sabha seat.

The ruling BJP and its allies, Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and United Peoples' Party Liberal (UPPL), are leading in 11 and opposition Congress in four of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam on Tuesday, according to election officials.

BJP is ahead in eight constituencies with Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal in Dibrugarh, Rajya Sabha MP Kamakhya Prasad Tasa in Kaziranga, MLA Ranjit Dutta in Tezpur, sitting MP Pradan Baruah in Lakhimpur, Bijuli Kalita Medhi in Guwahati, Dilip Saikia in Darrang-Udalguri, Amar Sing Tisso in Diphu (ST), Parimal Suklabaidya in Silchar (SC) and Kripanath Malla in Karimganj leading over their nearest rivals.

NDA constituents AGP and UPPL have also maintained leads in Barpeta and Kokrajhar with MLA Phanibhushan Choudhury and Joyanta Basumatary respectively. For the Congress, Lok Sabha deputy leader of opposition Gaurav Gogoi in Jorhat, sitting Nagaon MP Prodyut Bordoloi and MLA Rakibul Hussain in Dhubri are leading currently, officials said.

Among prominent candidates who are trailing are AIUDF president and three-time Dhubri MP Badruddin Ajmal and BJP's Jorhat sitting MP Topon Gogoi.

Following the Congress' appeal to electors in Madhya Pradesh's Indore to select the 'None of the Above' option, it has so far got more than 1.7 lakh votes in the Lok Sabha seat, breaking the previous NOTA record of Gopalganj in Bihar.

NOTA gives an option to voters to reject all candidates in a constituency.

In the 2019 elections, the Gopalganj Lok Sabha seat in Bihar recorded the maximum NOTA votes at 51,660, about 5 per cent of the total votes polled in the constituency.

As per the latest data available on the EC's website amid vote counting underway on Tuesday, NOTA has so far got 1,72,798 votes in Indore, the second highest after BJP candidate Shankar Lalwani who got 9,90,698 votes.

All the 13 other candidates in Indore have so far received less votes than NOTA.

The NDA appeared falling significantly short of its target of bagging 45-plus of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra, going by the latest trends in counting of votes.

The BJP was leading in 12 seats and allies Shiv Sena in 7 and NCP in 1 constituency as per the latest trends. The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi comprising the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) seemed to be faring rather well, leading in 27 seats. A Congressman turned independent was leading in Sangli seat.

AAP candidate Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer is leading in Punjab's Sangrur Lok Sabha seat against SAD (Amritsar) nominee Simranjit Singh Mann, according to the Election Commission. Hayer was leading by a comfortable margin of 1,48,772 votes against sitting MP Mann, according to the Election Commission data.

Embroiled in a battle for survival, Left parties marginally improved their performance in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, leading in eight to 10 seats according to vote counting trends. The CPI (M), which had only three MPs in the 17th Lok Sabha, was leading in five parliamentary seats, trends of the Election Commission website around 12 noon showed.

PDP chief and candidate from Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag–Rajouri Lok Sabha seat, Mehbooba Mufti is trailing, while National Conference candidate Mian Altaf Ahmad leading from this seat with a margin of 1,84,726 votes.

Chandrababu Naidu, whose Telugu Desam Party is making significant gains in both the Andhra Pradesh assembly and Lok Sabha elections as a member of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), is poised to become a crucial figure in national politics as a potential kingmaker.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav leading from UP's Kannauj seat with a margin of 64,511 votes. Meanwhile, SP's Dimple Yadav is leading Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat with a margin of 79,734 votes.   
 

On the share market showing downward trend today, Uttar Pradesh Congress chief and candidate from Varanasi, Ajay Rai says, "This has been done deliberately - show such Exit Polls that would ensure people that their government is coming to power and share market gets bullish...They have money invested by their people. They withdrew their money comfortably. This shows that their government is going away. They did a fake Exit Poll and secured their money. The common man is troubled."
 

 Veteran actor and TMC candidate from Asansol Lok Sabha seat, Shatrughan Sinha leading from the seat with a margin of 26,197 votes.  

Congress MP and candidate from Behrampore (West Bengal), Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury trailing by a margin of 9199 votes. TMC candidate Yusuf Pathan leading here. 

DMK candidate from Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat Ganapathy Rajkumar P leading with a margin of 7,400 seats. BJP candidate K Annamalai trailing. 

BJP candidate Maneka Gandhi trailing by a margin of 10,078 votes in UP's Sultanpur, Samajwadi Party candidate Rambhual Nishad leading.

Sensex continues its downward trend; currently down by 4470.38 points, trading at 71,998.40

HD Kumaraswamy has won in Karnataka's Mandya Lok Sabha seat by 530453 votes

Congress MP and candidate from Jorhat Lok Sabha seat, Gaurav Gogoi says, "In the beginning, all I would like to say is that Rahul Gandhi had said that the Exit Polls declared a few days back are Modi polls - this has turned out to be true. The ground reality is turning out to be different from Exit Polls..."

As per the official ECI trends, he is leading by a margin of 44,837 votes. 

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said, "If Congress crosses the mark of 100 Lok Sabha seats, INDIA alliance will come to power...The Congress party could even reach the mark of 150 Lok Sabha seats...If Congress emerges as the biggest party, the Prime Minister will be from the Congress party...It is the wish of the nation that Rahul Gandhi should lead the nation..."

Sensex crashes by more than 3000 points; currently trading at 73,336.66, down by 3132.12 points
 

ECI releases initial trends of 539 seats, the BJP is leading on 237 seats, Congress leading on 97 seats, Samajwadi Party leading on 34 seats

On his son and party candidate, Nakul Nath trailing in initial trends, senior Congress leader Kamal Nath says, “Jo hai so hai, we will examine it.” On election trends for Congress, he says, "Yes, I saw the party leading on 214. It is good. It is what is being reported in the news. We will see what actually happens."

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister and BJP candidate from Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat leading from the seat with a margin of 4,948 votes. Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor trailing. 

Jailed 'Waris Punjab De' Chief Amritpal Singh, an independent candidate from Punjab's Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha seat leading from the seat with a margin of 45,424 votes. 

TMC leading in 22 seats

BJP leading in 10 seats

Congress leading in 2 seats

As per initial trends of 528 seats by ECI, the BJP is leading on 231 seats, Congress leading on 100 seats, Samajwadi Party leading on 33 seats  

AIMIM chief and candidate from Hyderabad (Telangana), Asaduddin Owaisi leading by a margin of 15461 votes, as per the official ECI trends. Counting of votes is underway.

BJP MP and candidate from Patna Sahib constituency, Ravi Shankar Prasad said, "I have no doubts, I will make the final comments upon winning. All I can say is that ours will be a very decisive victory. People of India are blessing the NDA, under the leadership of PM Modi...."

JD(S) candidate from Karnataka's Hassan Prajwal Revanna leading from the seat with a margin of 1446 votes.

As per initial trends of 406 seats by ECI, the BJP is leading on 194 seats, Congress leading on 76 seats, Samajwadi Party leading on 30 seats   

As per Election Commission of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trailing in Varanasi Lok Sabha seat by 6,000 votes, while opposition INDI bloc's Ajay Rai is leading from the UP seat

Sensex opens in red; currently down by 1342.22 points, trending at 75,126.56

As per initial trends of 215 seats by ECI, the BJP is leading on 110 seats, Congress leading on 42 seats, Samajwadi Party leading on 19 seats
 

Congress Rahul Gandhi leading in kerala's Wayanad

AIUDF's Badruddin Ajmal trailing in Assam's Dhubri

Prajwal Revanna leading in Karnataka's Hassan

Radhakrishna Doddamani, Congress candidate and Mallikarjun Kharge's son-in-law is trailing from Gulbarga (Kalaburagi) seat

Misa Bharti trailing from Bihar's Patliputra

NCP's Sunetra Pawar leading in Baramati seat of Maharashtra

SP's Dimple Yadav leading from Mainpuri in UP

BJP leader Smriti Irani leading in UP's Amethi

PM Narendra Modi leading from UP's Varanasi

TDP's Nara Lokesh leading from Mangalgiri in Andhra Pradesh

BJP candidate from Arunachal West seat Kiren Rijiju is leading by 4,000 votes

YSRCP's YS Sharmila Reddy trailing from Kadapa seat in Andhra Pradesh

BJP's Tejasvi Surya leading by 26,000 margin votes in Bengaluru South seat

BJP is leading 26 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, while TMC is leading in 9 seats out of 42 seats

Congress candidates are leading in 6 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab

BJP's Amit Shah leading from Gujarat's Gandhinagar

BJP's Kangana Ranaut leading from Himachal's Mandi

BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad leading from Patna Sahib Seat

BJP's Ram Kripal Yadav leading from Patna's Patliputra seat

BJP's Jagadish Shettar leading from Belgaum Lok Sabha Seat

BJP's Jyotiraditya Scindia leading from Guna Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh

Pankaja Munde leading

DK Suresh leading

 BJP candidate Tamilisai Soundararajan is leading from Chennai South seat

SP chief Akhilesh yadav leads in UP's Kannauj

DMK's Kanimozhi Karunanidhi is leading in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi seat

BJP candidate Navneet Rana from Maharashtra's Amravati is Trailing

NCP candidate Supriya Sule is trailing from Maharashtra's Baramati seat

Congress leader Imran Masood is leading from UP's Saharanpur

BJP's Manohar Lal Khattar leads in Haryana's Karnal seat

BJP leading on 6 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha

Congress candidate Gaurav Gogoi leading from Jorhat Lok Sabha seat

BJP's Bijuli Kalita Medhi leading from Guwahati Lok Sabha seat

BJP's Sarbananda Sonowal leading in Dibrugarh Lok Sabha seat

Omar Abdullah trailing

Mehbooba Mufti trailing

Anurag Thakur leading from Himachal's Hamirpur

Kangana Ranaut leading from Himachal's Mandi

Smriti Irani leading in UP's Amethi by 100 votes

Srikant Shinde leading in Maharashtra's Kalyan

Narayan Rane leading

BJP candidates are leading in 5 Lok Sabha seats from West Bengal

BJP's Narendra Modi leading from UP's Varanasi seat

BJP candidate Ravi kishan from UP's Gorakhpur leading

BKP candidate from Himachal's Mandi Kangana Ranaut trailing

Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor leading from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram

Piyush Goyal leading

Jyotiraditya Scindia leading

The mammoth exercise to count votes polled for the Lok Sabha seats in the 2024 elections has began at 8 am on Tuesday. Trends and results will begin coming in shortly.

1. Narendra Modi: Prime Minister Modi, is seeking a third term from Varanasi, the constituency that paved his way to the Lok Sabha after his stint as Chief Minister. He is pitted against Congress leader and INDIA bloc candidate Ajay Rai. PM Modi won the seat by huge margins in 2014 and 2019.
2. Amit Shah: The Union Home Minister entered the Lok Sabha in 2019 from Gandhinagar and is seeking his second straight term from the seat, which has been held by BJP veterans in the past. Shah, who earlier served as BJP President, is against Congress candidate Sonal Patel.
3. Rahul Gandhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from two seats -- Wayanad and Raebareli. Gandhi, who lost the family bastion seat of Amethi in 2019 and entered the Lok Sabha from Wayanad, is aiming to maintain the party's lone bastion left in the state. He is up against BJP's Dinesh Pratap Singh and BJP's K. Surendran, as well as CPI-M's Annie Raja in Wayanad.
4. Supriya Sule and Sunetra Pawar: The Baramati constituency is another 'hot seat' that will decide the future of the 'Pawar' legacy. NCP supremo Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule is against his cousin Ajit Pawar's wife, Sunetra Pawar, from the seat. The exit polls have predicted a tight contest.
5. Shashi Tharoor: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who is a three-time MP from Thiruvananthapuram, is facing a three-way contest against BJP's Rajeev Chandrasekhar and CPI-M's Panniyan Ravindran. The exit polls have predicted a tight contest.
6. K. Annamalai: BJP Tamil Nadu chief and rising face in the south, K Annamalai, is aiming to make the party's inroads in the state. Contesting from Coimbatore, the former cop is up against DMK leader Ganapathy P Rajkumar and AIADMK's Singai Ramachandran.
7. Rajnath Singh: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is seeking a third term from Lucknow. The former Uttar Pradesh CM served as the Home Minister in BJP's first term and Defence Minister in the second term. Singh is facing SP candidate Ravidas Mehrotra and BSP candidate Sarwar Malik.
8. Abhishek Banerjee: As the BJP is aiming to make further inroads in West Bengal, and TMC is looking to maintain its fortress, TMC general secretary and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee is contesting from Diamond Harbour seeking a second term from the seat. Banerjee is pitted against CPI(M) candidate Pratikur Rahaman and BJP's Abhijit Das.
9. Akhilesh Yadav: Former Uttar Pradesh CM and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav made a surprise entry in the Lok Sabha polls, announcing his candidature from Kannauj. Yadav, who is an MLA from Karhal assembly constituency, is facing incumbent MP and BJP leader Subrat Pathak.
10. Asaduddin Owaisi: The Hyderabad constituency is bracing for a big showdown with four-time MP and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi facing a challenge against BJP candidate and actor-turned-politician Madhavi Latha.

With counting slated for today for the Lok Sabha elections, which have seen the largest voter participation, the electoral fate of several leaders across the political spectrum will be decided.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh are among the senior BJP leaders in the fray. Key opposition leaders, including former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, NCP's Supriya Sule, and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, are also contesting the poll.

"The people of India have made the country win. The poor, deprived, exploited people whose rights were taken away from them, they realised that Prime Minister Modi is the one who brought 25 crore people above the poverty line," says BJP MP Ravi Kishan.

Congress MP and party candidate from Chandigarh Manish Tewari says, "It is Tuesday, Hanuman's day. People have expressed their opinions. The opinions are locked in the EVMs. The EVMs will open and the opinion will come out. Whatever the people's decision will be, everyone should accept it with respect. This is the capability of Indian democracy."
 

BJP candidate from Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat Rajeev Chandrasekhar: "I think, at the end of the day, we will see what the results are but the most important thing today for all of us in the BJP and NDA is a third term for our Prime Minister and to continue to take India forward. I am of course, happy about the fact that the exit polls have shown a resounding mandate for our PM. I am also hopeful about the result pertaining to my seat in Thiruvananthapuram."

BJP candidate from Hyderabad, Madhavi Latha says, "I am pretty excited and all of them who have voted for BJP in the entire country are looking forward for especially this particular seat that we win and bring justice to Hyderabad. We all know that PM Modi in the entire two terms has tremendously worked for the nation and he has not just worked and left the love but he has also left a beautiful autograph of 'Modi Ka Pariwar' in the hearts of all Indians. I'm so sure that the entire country today would have been in their prayers, blessing and wishing for '400 paar' and these blessings have a tremendous storm of positivity in the nation along with winning the Hyderabad seat..."

The counting of votes will start at counting centres across the country at 8 AM. The process will begin with the counting of postal ballots, followed by the opening of the EVMs, announced Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar.

Exit polls have overwhelmingly predicted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for a historic third term, likely with a commanding majority. Despite this, the INDI bloc, consisting of 40 opposition parties, remains optimistic about securing a majority when the votes are counted.

With hours left before the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections in the world's largest democracy, security has been heightened at multiple locations across the country with police and paramilitary forces conducting intensive patrolling.