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Lok Sabha elections 2024: Is Team Uddhav aligning with NDA? Party says no

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of the Shiv Sena said it is going to remain with the INDIA alliance and will not switch back to the NDA

65.79% turnout recorded in LS polls, excludes postal ballots, says EC

A voter turnout of 65.79 per cent was recorded in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections but the final figures may change as it does not include postal ballots, the Election Commission said on Thursday. In the 2019 parliamentary polls, the turnout was 67.40 per cent. While in 2019, India had 91.20 crore voters and out of these, 61.5 crore had exercised their franchise, in the 2024 polls, the size of the electorate grew to 96.88 crore. At a recent press conference, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar had said a total of 64.2 crore voters have exercised their franchise in the 2024 polls. "Overall, 65.79 per cent voter turnout recorded in general elections, 2024, at the polling stations," the Election Commission said in a statement. Voter turnout at polling stations means votes polled in electronic voting machines. The poll panel said detailed statistical reports having the number of postal votes and gross voter turnout will be made available after finalisation of details as rec

65.79% voter turnout recorded in 2024 elections, postal ballot pending

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar reported that 642 million voters exercised their franchise between April 19 to June 1

Here's how jailed LS polls winners Er Rashid and Amritpal will take oath

In the 2024 Lok Sabha election results announced on June 4, radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh won the Khadoor Sahib seat in Punjab while Engineer Rashid secured the Baramulla constituency

Pawar vs Pawar: Ajit makes inroads in Arunachal, Sharad wins Maharashtra

Lok Sabha election 2024: General Election result shows Sharad Pawar's national influence despite Election Commission officially recognising Ajit Pawar's faction

From Smriti Irani to Arjun Munda, Modi ministers who lost 2024 LS polls

Lok Sabha elections 2024 results: Smriti Irani lost to Congress candidate Kishori Lal Sharma by a margin of 167,196 votes in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi

LS polls 2024 : Sanjay Raut to attend INDIA bloc meet in Delhi today

Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut will attend the opposition INDIA alliance meeting to be held in New Delhi on Wednesday evening to deliberate on the Lok Sabha poll results, party sources said. Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said he will also travel to Delhi to attend the INDIA alliance leaders' meeting, but now only Raut will be attending it. Raut is already in the national capital for the meeting, the sources added. Thackeray on Tuesday pushed for staking a claim to form the next government at the Centre and said the opposition alliance's leaders will meet on Wednesday in New Delhi to decide on the Prime Minister's face. He said leaders of the Congress and other parties were holding talks with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Telegu Desam Party (TDP) head N Chandrababu Naidu to explore the possibility of their entry into the bloc. The Kumar-led JD(U) and the TDP are constituents of the BJP-headed NDA, which is poised to form the next government in the 543-member

Govt bonds still a 'buy' for foreign investors despite PM Modi's narrow win

Foreign investors have piled on bonds this year and remained on the buying side on Tuesday, despite the unexpected election outcome hitting stocks

Election results: Akhilesh hails UP voters for victory of INDIA bloc, PDA

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said the success of the INDIA bloc in Uttar Pradesh is the victory of the backward classes, Dalits and minorities, and attributed it to the PDA strategy and efforts put in by the alliance. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, who fought the elections on the plank of PDA (Pichada, Dalit and Alpasankhyak) unity, said voters have proved that no force and deceit is more powerful than people's power. "Dear intelligent voters of Uttar Pradesh, the victory of India bloc in the state is also the victory of the Dalit-Bahujan trust which, along with backward, minority, tribal, 'half population' (women) and all neglected, exploited, oppressed, backwards among the upper castes, has fought shoulder to shoulder to save the Constitution that gives the right to equality, respect, self-respect, dignified life and reservation," he said on X. The INDIA bloc has won 43 out of 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, with the SP securing 37 seats and Congress six. "This is th

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Which candidates won by the lowest margins?

Lok Sabha elections 2024 results: The BJP-led NDA is returning to power for a third term at the Centre as it surpassed the majority mark of 272 and won 292 seats

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Constituency-wise winners list for Uttar Pradesh

Lok Sabha polls 2024 result: The Congress won six seats while the Samajwadi Party won 37 seats by itself, marking a phenomenal return for the both the INDIA bloc parties

Rahul Gandhi sweeps Wayanad, Raebareli, Congress wins 99 Lok Sabha seats

Rahul Gandhi's decision to contest from Raebareli aims to uphold his party's long standing influence in this constituency, historically dominated by Congress

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Which candidates won by the biggest margins?

Five candidates, including four from the BJP and one from Congress, broke all previous records for the highest victory margin in a Lok Sabha election

Lok Sabha elections 2024 result: Constituency-wise winners list for Bihar

Lok Sabha election result: Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) is leading at 14 seats while the BJP is ahead on 13 seats, the vote counting trend till 3 pm showed

Election results 2024: BJP wins 240 Lok Sabah seats, Congress 99, says EC

The Election Commission of India has declared results for 542 of the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies, with the BJP winning 240 seats and the Congress 99. The result for the Beed constituency in Maharashtra -- where the NCP (Sharad Pawar) candidate Bajrang Manohar Sonwane is leading the BJP's Pankaja Munde -- is still awaited. While the Lok Sabha has 543 members, counting was held for 542 seats after the BJP's Surat candidate Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed. According to the results declared early on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is poised to form the government for a third consecutive term with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) getting a majority in the Lok Sabha, notwithstanding crushing losses in three Hindi heartland states after a bitterly fought election that was projected as a referendum on his popularity. The BJP, whose candidates contested in the name of Modi, won in 240 seats, falling short of the 272 majority mark and needing the support of allies i

5 candidates crush record for highest victory margin, Indore's Lalwani tops

At least five candidates, including four from the BJP, crushed the previous record for the highest victory margin in the Lok Sabha elections, with Indore's incumbent MP Shankar Lalwani of the BJP topping the list with a winning margin of 11.72 lakh votes. The Congress' Rakibul Hussain scored the second-highest victory margin with 10.12 lakh from Dhubri in Assam. Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan won from Vidisha by 8.21 lakh votes -- the third highest margin -- followed by the BJP's CR Patil, who recorded a margin of 7.73 lakh from Navsari in Gujarat. Union Home Minister Amit Shah won from Gandhinagar by a margin of over 7.44 lakh votes. The previous record for the highest winning margin was held by Pritam Munde, also from the BJP, who had won a bypoll in October 2014 from Beed in Maharashtra by more than 6.96 lakh votes. Patil, a three-term MP from Navsari, held the record for the second-highest margin after he won by 6.89 lakh votes in 2019. He has now

LS polls: Smriti Irani, Annamalai, Adhir Ranjan among big names who lost

Congress' Amethi Lok Sabha candidate Kishori Lal Sharma has emerged as a giant slayer by defeating sitting BJP MP and Union Minister Smriti Irani by a margin of over 1.5 lakh votes. Interestingly, Irani was dubbed a giant slayer in 2019 after she defeated Rahul Gandhi from the seat in the last general elections. According to Election Commission data, while Sharma got 5,39,228 votes, Irani managed to get 3,72,032 votes. In West Bengal's Baharampur seat, first-time contender Yusuf Pathan of the Trinammol Congress secured a comfortable victory over Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in the Congress veteran's Baharampur bastion. The former India cricketer beat the Congress' Leader in the 17th Lok Sabha and six-time MP by 85,022 votes. In Uttar Pradesh, Union Minister and two-time MP from Kheri, Ajay Kumar Teni, lost to Samajwadi Party's (SP) Utkarsh Verma Madhur by 34,329 votes. Another big upset in the state was the defeat of senior BJP leader and former Union minister Maneka Gandhi in the Sult

Lok Sabha polls 2024: BJP wins with reduced margins in national capital

BJP's poll debutant Yogendra Chandoliya trounced Congress' Udit Raj by over 2.90 lakh votes in the North West Delhi Lok Sabha seat, registering the highest victory margin among the seven winning candidates of the party in the national capital. In 2019, BJP's candidates won by margins ranging from over 2.28 lakh votes to 5.78 lakh votes. But this time, three of the candidates, including late BJP leader Sushma Swaraj's daughter Bansuri Swaraj, won by a margin of less than a lakh votes while only Chandoliya breached the two-lakh mark. Swaraj recorded the lowest victory margin among all the candidates. A first-timer, she was fielded by the BJP in place of outgoing MP and Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi, and defeated AAP's Somnath Bharti by over 78,000 votes. Lekhi won the seat twice in a row in 2014 and 2019 by margins of 2,56,504 and 1,62,708 votes respectively. New Delhi is the smallest parliamentary constituency in the city in terms of the number of voters which is 15.25 lakh. Apa

Lok Sabha polls 2024: What election results look like at 12 pm on June 4

Lok Sabha elections 2024: BJP leads in 236 constituencies, Rahul Gandhi leads in both Raebareli and Wayanad

Lok Sabha polls 2024: This is what the results look like at 5 pm on June 4

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 results: Counting for the General Elections began at 8 am on Tuesday. Early trends suggest BJP-led NDA inching towards victory, while the INDIA bloc trails