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

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?

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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.”