Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 highlights: INDIA bloc halts BJP’s majority

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Rahul Gandhi said, “The BJP does not respect the people and they do not talk to the people properly. Kishori Lal Sharma has a great relationship with Amethi and it’s the people who have elected him. It’s disrespectful to say that he’s a PA. He has been working with the people all throughout.”

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Rahul Gandhi said “We are going to have a meeting with our alliance partners tomorrow and these questions will be discussed there. We respect our partners and we are going to take their opinions before making a decision.”

Congress presidentKharge said, “You all know that the Congress has fought the elections facing multiple difficulties. Our bank accounts were frozen, but we ensured that the campaign continued to be positive throughout. We fought the elections based on issues of inflation, unemployment but on the other hand the PM was spreading false narratives.”

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said, “This was a fight to save the Constitution of the country and has emerged victorious in it. The country has said that they do not want Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah to run the country.”

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said that the people’s mandate is a win for the people of the country and the democracy.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa, son of one of Indira Gandhi's assassins Beant Singh, won from Punjab's Faridkot as an Independent with 2.96 lakh votes.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, looking at a historic third term, won from Varanasi by over 1.5 lakh votes.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Congress' Vikramaditya Singh conceded to BJP's Kangana Ranaut in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi. He said, “I congratulate Kangana Ranaut for the win. I will continue to work on the vision I gave to the people of Mandi during the campaign. I assure the people of Mandi that I and my government will stand with the people in the coming days. I will also soon begin a tour of the parliamentary constituency.”

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: AIMIM's Asaduddin Owaisi wins from Hyderabad by over 3.3 lakh votes.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has won from Vidisha by eight lakh votes.

Lok Sabha 2024 winners list: Candidates leading across BJP, Congress, SP and others. Check complete list here

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: People have bid farewell to Narendra Modi, Uddhav Thackeray Sena leader Sanjay Raut said. "The people of the country have given a farewell to Modi ji. It's a failure of PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah that the BJP was not able to retain their 2019 number. Rahul Gandhi's leadership and state leaders like Mamta Banerjee, Uddhav Thackeray, Akhilesh Yadav, Tejaswi Yadav, and everyone worked hard and destroyed the arrogance of PM Modi and Amit Shah," he said.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be addressing a press conference at 5.30 pm today.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Lallu Singh, incumbent Faizabad MP from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), conceded defeat to the Samajwadi Party candidate Awadhesh Prasad, saying “Hum aapka samman nahi bacha paaye (we could not save your respect).”

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Union Minister Ajay Mishra 'Teni' lost in the Kheri constituency in Uttar Pradesh by a margin of 25,494 votes.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: BJP's Annamalai trails by over 33,000 votes in Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: A key party meeting is underway at party chief JP Nadda's official residence, it was reported. Senior party leaders Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh are also present.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Nitish Kumar's JDU is ahead in 14 of 16 Lok Sabha seats it contested in Bihar. Read here

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Home Minister Amit Shah is leading in the Gandhinagar constituency in Gujarat with a margin of over 6.15 lakh votes.

Priyanka Gandhi posted an old picture with KL Sharma as he leads from Amethi against BJP's Smriti Irani.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Leaders of all INDIA bloc parties are likely to meet in Delhi at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Maneka Gandhi is trailing from Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur by more than 22,000 votes, the latest data from Election Commission showed.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Omar Abdullah, former chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, on Tuesday, June 4, conceded defeat to his nearest rival and independent candidate Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid in the Baramulla seat in the Lok Sabha elections 2024. Read more

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: TMC candidate Yusuf Pathan is leading by a margin of over 31,000 votes in Baharampur.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Mansukh Mandaviya wins from Porbandar Lok Saba seat by more than 3.78 lakh votes.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Mehbooba Mufti concedes defeat in Anantnag-Rajouri seat

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party is leading in 37 with BJP at 32 and Congress in 7 seats.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Charanjit Singh Channi wins Jalandhar seat

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Abhishek Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress is leading in the Diamond Harbour constituency in West Bengal by a margin of over 7 lakh votes.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: In a strong reaction to surprising Lok Sabha election results, the Congress demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's resignation. Read more

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Omar Abdullah conceded defeat and said, “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.”

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Union minister Nitin Gadkari is leading from the Nagpur Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra, as per latest data from the Election Commission of India.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: According to trends, NDA leading on 297 seats and the INDIA bloc is at 225.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: BJP candidate from Raebareli, Dinesh Pratap Singh, conceded defeat.In a post on social media, he wrote, “I worked very hard but there were some lapses for which I apologise to the people of Raebareli. I thank my workers and apologise to the people of Raebareli. We worked hard but the result is not in our hands. The people are like God and their decision is appropriate. I want to assure the people that I will always be there to serve them.”

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Former Chhattisgarh CM and BJP leader Raman Singh said, "After the counting of voters for 6-7 rounds, NDA is going to get around 290 seats. BJP-led NDA will form its government in the country. BJP will also reach around 270 seats. In Odisha and Andhra Pradesh too, BJP will form its government."

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Akhilesh Yadav and his wife Dimple are both leading in their seats. Akhilesh Yadav is leading by a margin of 61,351 votes in Kannauj and Dimple Yadav is leading in Mainpuri by a margin of 68,261 votes, as per the EC.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Rahul Gandhi has a huge lead of over 2 lakh votes in the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat. In Raebareli, the Congress leader is leading by more than 1.5 lakh votes.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Veteran actor and TMC leader Shatrughan Sinha is leading in Asansol Lok Sabha seat with a margin of over 26,000 votes.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Prajwal Revanna, candidate from Janata Dal-Secular (JD(S)), is expected to emerge victorious in the Hassan Lok Sabha constituency of Karnataka.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Early trends suggest that the Opposition’s INDIA bloc has made massive gains when compared to the 2019 numbers, and is on course to cross the 200-seat mark. Read here

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Sensex down over 5,000 points, Nifty falls 1,447 as counting day.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: NDA alliance is leading in Bihar, as per latest trends issued by the Election Commission of India. Janata Dal (United) is ahead on 14 seats in Bihar, while Bharatiya Janata Party is leading on 11 seats.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: In Jalandhar, Charanjit Singh Channi has a substantial lead over his BJP's Sushil Rinku- an impressive margin of 1,09,912 votes.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) vice-president and Baramulla Lok Sabha candidate Omar Abdullah is trailing in Baramulla by a margin of 46,225 votes, as per the ECI.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: BJP is set to retain the North Goa constituency, while has a small lead in the South Goa constituency.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: In Indore, NOTA garnered 1,11,691 votes, reported Indian Express.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: The NDA’s tally is just short of the 300 mark while the Congress is currently close to the 100-mark.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh said, "We are forming the government for the third time. The trends are in favour of BJP. The results will also be in favour of BJP. Based on 10 years of governance of BJP government, the public has chosen BJP again."

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is trailing from Thiruvananthapuram constituency against BJP‘s Rajeev Chandrasekhar, as per the Election Commission of India.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: TMC has extended its lead in West Bengal and is now ahead in 32 seats. The BJP is leading in 9 and the Congress in one, trends show.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: In Himachal Pradesh, BJP is leading in all four Lok Sabha constituencies, as per the latest trends from the Election Commission. Kangana Ranaut has secured a lead of 30,017 votes.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 extended losses as trends suggest below expectations lead for Narendra Modi-led BJP.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Congress candidate S Supongmeren Jamir is leading over his nearest rival Chumben Murry of the NDPP by over 23,500 votes in the lone Lok Sabha seat in Nagaland, as per Election Commission.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Congress candidate from UP's Amethi Lok Sabha seat, KL Sharma is leading from the seat with a margin of 19,177 votes. BJP candidate Smriti Irani is trailing.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Amritpal Singh, an independent candidate from Punjab's Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha seat is leading from the seat with a margin of 45,424 votes.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi leading by a margin of 15,461 votes, as per official ECI trends.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar is leading over by margin of 10,766 votes in Karnal Lok Sabha seat.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Rahul Gandhi is leading the Rae Bareli seats by 28,326 votes. The Congress leader also leads in Wayanad, which he currently represents in the Lok Sabha.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: After trailing in early trends, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a lead of 436 votes over Congress's Ajay Rai in Varanasi Lok Sabha seat.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Supriya Shrinate said that early trends are very encouraging for the Congress. She said, “We fought the elections on the issues of the people.”

Congress' Jairam Ramesh said, "These trends show that the present (PM) is going to become former. This is his moral and political defeat. It has never happened before that the Prime Minister trails from his own constituency. The trends in Varanasi are just the trailer."

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: BJP leader Rajyavardhan Rathore said that he is confident that the BJP will form the government. "We are winning for sure," he asserted.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: NDA is leading in Bihar with 29 seats. India bloc has 9 seats, trends show.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trailing against Congress candidate Ajay Rai from Varanasi.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: BJP, which won all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi both in 2014 and 2019, is leading in six seats in the national capital. The AAP is leading in one seat.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Union Minister and BJP candidate Kiren Rijiju and his party’s sitting MP Tapir Gao are leading on both the Arunachal Lok Sabha seats.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: CEC Rajiv Kumar said, "Counting of votes for 542 Constituencies have begun. Our teams are here in the control room to monitor the counting of votes virtually. Our website has around 2 lakh hits per second. We are managing all of that from here. All the ROs have been asked to allow the polling agents and candidates to sit there so that the counting is conducted with transparency."

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti is trailing in the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat, as per Election Commission trends.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Trends from the Election Commission of India show Prime Minister Narendra Modi ia trailing from Varanasi against Congress candidate Ajay Rai.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Vikramaditya Singh said, "The results will be good, it (counting) has just begun. All will be well. Exit Polls were manufactured by media, so it had not authenticity, today's verdict will be of India, of Himachal Pradesh. We will match the numbers stated by the leaders of INDIA Alliance."

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: As per early trends, the big names leading so far are Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi, Amit Shah, Akhilesh Yadav and Supriya Sule.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Independent candidate from Punjab's Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha seat 'Waris Punjab De' chief Amritpal Singh is leading from the seat, early trends show.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: According to early trends, NDA has neared the majority mark and is now leading in 259 seats against INDIA bloc’s 189 seats.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Opposition MVA is leading on 28 seats in Maharashtra, as per early trends while Mahayuti is ahead in 26 seats.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Early trends show NDA ahead in 302 seats while INDIA bloc is ahead in 170 seats. The BJP is ahead in 256 seats, as per the trends so far, television channels show.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Congress leader Pawan Khera said, "I have full faith in the support I have received from the public. Yesterday Mallikarjun Kharge wrote a letter to all the government officials, the Election Commission should also include itself in it. They should also read the letter carefully and do their work without any pressure or fear."

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: The BJP-led NDA has gone past the 200-seat mark in very early trends while the Opposition’s INDIA bloc is at 122 seats. However, these are very early trends and are based on multiple news channels.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: ZPM candidate Richard Vanlalhmangaiha is leading by 1,537 votes over his nearest rival K Vanlalvena of the MNF in only Lok Sabha seat in Mizoram, as per early trends on the EC website.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Piyush Goyal are leading in their respective constituencies. Supriya Sule, the daughter of NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar, is also leading in her respective constituencies.

Nitin Gadkari, who is vying for a third term in the Lok Sabha from Nagpur, has established a lead over his Congress' Vikas Thakre.

Piyush Goyal, a first-time Lok Sabha candidate, is contesting from the Mumbai North constituency against Congress' Bhushan Patil.

In Baramati constituency, Supriya Sule has taken the lead over her sister-in-law, Sunetra Pawar, wife of Maharashtra's deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is ahead in Kerala’s Wayanad and UP‘s Raebareli seats, early trends show as per various television channels. These trends are based on postal ballots and counting of EVM votes is yet to begin.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Early trends show Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. These trends are still based on postal ballots.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: BJP's Amit Malviya said in a post on X, “Reports of violence from the counting center in Sreerampur, West Bengal. It would be good if Mamata Banerjee reigns in the criminal elements in her ranks. But one has not heard a public appeal for peace from her. Does she want violence to be the norm in Bengal?”

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Varanasi Commissioner Mohit Agarwal said, “There is a three-level security arrangement in Varanasi. There is inner cordon where paramilitary is deployed. Then there is PSE and the third cordon is of local police. A total of 1,500 police officers have been deployed here. 25 gazetted officers are on duty. No one will be able to enter without proper checking.”

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: BJP-led NDA has taken a lead in very early trends, as per multiple television channels. India Today has given NDA a lead in 111 seats. Opposition’s INDIA bloc stands at 67, the news channel reported.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Counting of votes has begun and early trends indicate that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken a significant lead as the PM Modi led party is vying for a third successive term in office.

As per TV reports based on preliminary trends, NDA is ahead in 155 seats while the INDIA bloc is leading in 69 seats.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: NDA has taken a huge lead over the INDIA bloc, as per TV reports based on preliminary trends. The BJP-led alliance is ahead in 155 seats while the INDIA bloc is leading in 69 seats.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: India Today gives NDA lead in 111 seats while the Opposition’s INDIA bloc stands at 67.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: The BJP has taken lead in over 100 seats in very early trends, as per TV reports. INDIA bloc is ahead in 40 seats.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Abhijit Das, BJP’s candidate against TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee, alleged that some of his agents were forced out from counting centre as counting began in the state.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 Live: Very early trends showed that the NDA is ahead of the Opposition INDIA bloc in many seats. Please note that these are very early trends and only postal ballots are being counted right now.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: The first trends should start to emerge shortly after the counting of ballot paper votes.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Bharatiya Janata Party has already won the Surat Lok Sabha seat as Mukesh Dalal won unopposed after the nomination of Congress' Nilesh Kumbhani was rejected over irregularities in the signature of proposers and other candidates withdrew before the polls. Read here

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Counting of votes begins for the Lok Sabha elections. The process will commence with the counting of postal ballots and will continue till the final tallies are prepared.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi said that the party is hopeful that the election results will be the opposite of what the exit polls predicted. She said, “We have to wait and see. Just wait and see" after Rahul Gandhi termed exit polls as “Modi Media poll”.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: From the BJP, state minister Brijmohan Agrawal and party leader Saroj Pandey are in the fray while Congress' main candidates include former chief minister Bhupesh Baghel and Kawasi Lakhma.

The state has 11 Lok Sabha constituencies and the counting of votes will begin from 8am in 33 centres of the state.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: PM Narendra Modi penned a note to the nation ahead of the Lok Sabha election results and said that his three-day meditation at Kanyakumari was a humbling experience. He said, “The multitude of faces seen at rallies and road shows came in front of my eyes. The blessings from our Nari Shakti (women power)…the trust, the affection, all of this was a very humbling experience. My eyes were getting moist…I entered into a sadhana (meditative state). And then, the heated political debates, the attacks and counterattacks, the voices and words of accusations which are so characteristic of an election…they all vanished into a void.”

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: The Delhi traffic police issued a fresh advisory listing key roads where traffic restrictions and diversions will start from 5 am onwards. Top things you need to know:

1. Movement of traffic on the road stretch/carriageway from Gagan Cinema T-Point to Nand Nagri Flyover on Wazirabad Road (Mangal Pandey Road) Delhi will be restricted from 5:00 am onwards
2. Wazirabad Road (Mangal Pandey Road) will be closed for general traffic from 5:00 am onwards and traffic will be diverted from Gagan Cinema T-Point.
3. Owing to counting of votes at Commonwealth Games Village, Akshardham, there will be some traffic restrictions and diversions in the area.
4. Special traffic arrangements will be effective at August Kranti Marg and Siri Fort Road.
5. Those head towards ISBT, railway stations or airports are advised to carefully plan their travel with sufficient time at hand, Delhi traffic police said.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Lok Sabha election results could see BJP repeating its 2019 performance, poll strategist Prashant Kishor said. The party will win 303 seats or more this time, he said.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Yogendra Yadav predicted less than 272 seats for the BJP- very different from almost all exit polls.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: India bloc leaders will hold a meeting after the results of Lok Sabha elections.

"INDIA leaders will obviously meet after the results are declared. Any other meaning being given to it is completely misleading and false," Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Vote counting for the Lok Sabha 2024 elections will begin at 8 am today. Trends and results will begin from 8 am today.

Results of 175 Assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh and 147 Assembly constituencies in Odisha as well as results of bypolls in 25 Assembly constituencies will also be declared today.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: The Congress is contesting the fewest Lok Sabha seats in its history at 328 as the INDIA bloc hope to recover lost ground in key states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Maharashtra, Bihar and Karnataka.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: The key seats to look out for today are-

Amethi as Union minister Smriti Irani is eyeing her second straight win

Rae Bareli as Rahul Gandhi is contesting from the seat

Lucknow- Rajnath Singh is contesting from the seat

Hajipur- Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswanis fighting from the seat

Mumbai North- Union minister Piyush Goyal seeks to win from the seat

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: PM Narendra Modi thanked voters and said that voters will get NDA re-elected again in a post on X. He said, “They are casteist, communal and corrupt. This alliance, aimed to protect a handful of dynasties, failed to present a futuristic vision for the nation. Through the campaign, they only enhanced their expertise on one thing- Modi bashing. Such regressive politics has been rejected by the people.”

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: A total of 12 exit polls indicated that the NDA will get 365 seats and the INDIA bloc will get 146 seats. Exit polls showed that BJP's individual score will get 317 seats and the Congress will secure 61.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Madhya Pradesh CM is sure that it is going to be a BJP win as he said, “Results will come today, and the trends show that 'fir ek baar Modi sarkar, abki baar 400 paar'. We will join PM Modi's Vijay Yatra with a big majority.”

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: AAP leader Gopal Rai said, “The entire country is waiting to know the results. Everyone saw that people had voted this time for employment and to save the democracy and Constitution. The exit poll of ‘janata’ says that the INDIA alliance government will be formed."

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: All eyes are set on Baramati where three-time MP Supriya Sule of NCP (Sharad Pawar) is against her sister-in-law of the rival faction of the NCP headed by Ajit Pawar.

It is a Pawar vs Pawar fight as Sharad Pawar and his nephew Ajit Pawar fight for political supremacy.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: BJP headquarters today is prepared to celebrate the party's victory in the elections with a white shamiana with orange and green stripes and separate media booths.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Bansuri Swaraj, late Sushma Swaraj's daughter, has made her electoral debut from the New Delhi seat as she faces AAP's Somnath Bharti.

Will she win the seat? Check latest updates here

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Postal ballots are ballots that are sent by mail, allowing eligible voters to cast their vote remotely, rather than in person at a polling station. Read our explainer on postal ballots here

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Manoj Tiwari's ‘Hind ka Sitara’ was a hit in Panchayat web series. But the Bhojpuri actor-singer is also looking to win his seat North East Delhi for the third time today. Against him is Congress' Kanhaiya Kumar as INDIA alliance's joint candidate.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 continued its bull run after most exit polls predicted the return of PM Modi-led BJP government. BSE Sensex closed 2,507 points, or 3.39 per cent higher at 76,468.78. Nifty 50 closed at 733.20 points, or 3.25 per cent higher at 23,263.90.

The stock market is likely to see a surge today as well, analysts said.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said, "INDIA alliance is going to form the government. We won't get anything less than 295 seats. If you talk about 'Modiji ka exit poll', they have shown a positive swing of 14 per cent for us in Bihar, on the other hand it is 7 per cent negative swing for Modiji and his alliance partners. In Bihar, we will get nothing less than 25 seats."

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: BJP leader Uma Bharti said the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will win around 450 Lok Sabha seat.

She said, “The exit polls came out day before yesterday, whatever their estimates are, but my estimate cannot be less than four hundred and fifty (seats for NDA).”

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Congress leader Harish Rawat said, “We are quite hopeful that Congress is winning. We are winning big in Himachal Pradesh, and INDIA (bloc) is winning across the country, we will get majority and form government. BJP supporters are disappointed. They have just tried to make a psychological impact through exit polls.”

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Bhupesh Baghel claimed that numerous electronic voting machines in his Rajnandgaon constituency were changed. The state's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said that the "mismatch" in the number of EVMs shared with Bhupesh Baghel is not supported by facts as, “The alleged mismatch in EVMs number shared with the INC candidate of Rajnandgaon PC is not based on facts. The EVMs used during polls are exactly according to the list of machines shared by Returning Officer after randomization with contesting candidates.”

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: PM Modi led 206 outreach events during the campaign- including public rallies and road shows. The PM gave 80 interviews during this period.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: BJP leaders met at the headquarters of the party for a meeting chaired by president J P Nadda and attended by senior ministers, including Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh on Monday.

BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawde said, “The meeting only reviewed the elections and voting and discussed arrangements and deployment (of party workers) for counting of votes."

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Ahead of counting day, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar traveled to Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: For 7 Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, BJP is going solo while AAP and Congress have a 4-3 seat-sharing deal under which Arvind Kejriwal's AAP is contesting four seats while Congress is vying for three.

AAP contested from South Delhi, New Delhi, West Delhi, and Northwest Delhi while Congress contested from East Delhi, Northeast Delhi, and Chandni Chowk.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: If you have been tracking news for the past few months, you must have read headlines saying: INDIA bloc meets… INDIA bloc holds talks… and so on.

For the uninitiated, 26 opposition parties formed a grand alliance before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and called it the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance and its acronym ofcourse is INDIA.

What INDIA bloc has?

The alliance includes Indian National Congress, Trinamool Congress and regional parties like the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and Samajwadi Party.

What INDIA bloc does not have?

A prime ministerial candidate.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: As you await the results of the Lok Sabha elections, authorities ramped up security measures at various locations nationwide.

In order to ensure fair counting of votes, law enforcement agencies, including police and paramilitary forces, intensified their patrols around the counting centres.

Seems like the stage is truly set for the counting process to begin.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Maharashtra's Sena vs Sena battle is straight out of a book everyone is waiting to read. The Shiv Sena, led by Uddhav Thackeray, faces a significant challenge following party's split in 2022 which led to a separate faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde which has been recognised as the official Shiv Sena by the Election Commission.

In 2019, the Shiv Sena allied with BJP, securing 18 out of the 48 seats in Maharashtra.

This time Eknath Shinde is with the BJP and it remains to be seen who wins the most seats: Sena or Sena?

Follow latest updates here

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: The Lok Sabha elections saw Jammu and Kashmir witnessing the greatest voter participation in the last 35 years. The Election Commission said, “The final voter turnout in J&K is 143889, which is approximately 11.3% more than the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. It is the highest voter turnout in the last 35 years.”

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: If PM Modi secures a third straight term in office, he will match the feat achieved by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who is the only premier till now to have won three consecutive terms.

Jawaharlal Nehru held the position of Prime Minister for 17 years, from 1947 to 1964 making him the longest-serving prime minister in India's history.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: India-Today-My Axis poll and Today’s Chanakya predicted NDA tally to over 400 seats while My Axis forecasts 322-340 seats for the BJP and 60-75 seats for the Congress.

Axis projected INDIA alliance to get 131-166 seats while Chanakya predicted it to be between 96 and 118.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Arduous? Gruelling? Tiresome? Exasperating? No one knows which word would Congress' Shashi Tharoor use for the entire election process but it remains to be seen whether he can win his Lok Sabha seat Thiruvananthapuram again.

His main challenger is Union minister and BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar who marks his first foray into Lok Sabha elections while Pannyan Raveendran from the Communist Party of India (CPI), who won in 2005, is also in the fray.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Rahul Gandhi, Rae Bareli and results- the three ₹to look out for today. And why not? After all, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh instead of his former constituency Amethi.

Rae Bareli has been a stronghold of the Gandhi family as Sonia Gandhi has represented the constituency since 2004. In the last Lok Sabha elections, Sonia Gandhi won the seat by a margin of over 1.6 lakh votes.

In 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi faced a stunning defeat at the hands of BJP leader Smriti Irani by a margin of over 55,000 votes in Amethi.

So yes, we do await the results of Lok Sabha elections with a special focus on Rae Bareli.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: No time like now to revisit the first Lok Sabha election in India after Independence.

Well, it took four months and were conducted in 1951-52 for 489 Lok Sabha seats.

Who won? The Indian National Congress won 364 seats and formed the government under the prime ministership of Jawaharlal Nehru.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Ever wondered how Election Commission undertakes the counting process? Wonder no more. We got you covered.

Basically, as per Rule 54 A of the Conduct of Elections Rules 1961, the counting of postal ballot papers shall be started first at the Returning Officer's (RO) table.

After 30 minutes of the commencement of counting of postal ballots, the counting of votes from EVMs should be started.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: The Election Commission of India will provide live updates and results on its official website. You can also check real-time updates on the Voter Helpline App will also be available for real-time updates.

And ofcourse, keep reading Hindustan Times' blog for all the latest updates.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: The counting of votes will begin at 8am today. The complete results are expected to be announced by the evening.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Key batttleground states today include Bihar, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana where the INDIA bloc will hope to stop the BJP. Of these, Haryana and Maharashtra go to Assembly polls later this year while Bihar will hold Assembly polls late next year.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: The rules of counting have been defined by the Election Commission of India. Rule 51 (“Time and place for counting of votes”) of The Conduct of Election Rules, 1961, which says that “returning officer shall, at least one week before the date, or the first of the dates, fixed for the poll, appoint the place or places where the counting of votes will be done and the date and time at which the counting will commence.”

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: All major exit polls say that the NDA will be returning with a huge majority and the BJP will better its previous numbers.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Over 67,000 ballot units, along with 1.47 lakh postal ballots for Lok Sabha elections and 1.46 lakh for assembly elections, will be tallied today.

A massive, massive process, right?

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: The BJP won 71 of 80 Lok Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh in 2014 polls while its ally Apna Dal (S) also won two seats in Uttar Pradesh. In 2019, the BJP’s tally was 62 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state as its ally Apna Dal (S) won two seats.

Will BJP again have a stellar performance in the state?

Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Ofcourse we are watching out for PM Modi's seat today from Varanasi as he seeks a third consecutive term but don't forget to look out for senior cabinet members like Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh who are also in the fray.