LS polls Highlights: Nearly 60% polling till 5 pm in phase one, says EC

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8:58 AM

General Elections 2024 LIVE update: Voting underway for 5 seats in Maharashtra

Voting started today morning in five Lok Sabha seats of Maharashtra, where more than 9.5 million voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the first phase. A total of 97 candidates, including Union minister Nitin Gadkari, are in contention in Nagpur, Ramtek (SC), Bhandara-Gondia, Chandrapur and Naxal-hit Gadchiroli-Chimur (ST) constituency, all located in eastern-most parts of the state.

8:43 AM

General Elections 2024: Voting for lone Lok Sabha seat in Andamans begins

Voting for the lone Lok Sabha seat in Andaman and Nicobar Islands began at 7:00 am today amid tight security measures. A total of 315,000 voters are eligible to exercise their franchise. Special voting stations have been built for 39 voters of the Great Nicobarese tribe of Strait Islands, 68 members of the Onge tribe at Hut Bay and 98 Shompen tribals of Great Nicobar Island.

8:31 AM

General Elections 2024 LIVE update: Polling underway for 2 LS seats in Meghalaya

 Voting for two parliamentary seats in Meghalaya began at 7:00 am today. Voters at numerous polling stations were seen queuing up as early as 6:00 am. a poll official said. The first five voters were rewarded with mementoes and first-time voters were also felicitated, encouraging them to exercise their franchise, he said.

8:29 AM

Lok Sabha polls 2024 update: Voting underway for lone Nagaland LS seat

Polling is underway for the lone Lok Sabha seat in Nagaland today. Over 1.32 million voters are eligible to exercise their franchise to decide the fate of three candidates in contention. Of the total 2,342 polling booths, 588 polling stations have been marked as critical and vulnerable, officials said.

8:27 AM

Lok Sabha elections first phase: Voting begins for Udhampur seat in J-K

Voting started in the first phase of general elections in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur parliamentary constituency on Friday with over 16.23 lakh electorate eligible to exercise their franchise.The polling began at 7 am in all 2,637 polling stations across the constituency despite pouring rain and will decide the fate of 12 candidates, including Union Minister Jitendra Singh who is eyeing a third term.

8:19 AM

Lok Sabha polls update: Former Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palaniswami casts vote in Salem

Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK leader Edappadi K Palaniswami  cast his vote today a polling booth in Salem. Tamil Nadu is going to the polls for all 39 of its parliamentary constituencies today in the first phase of the General Elections 2023. While the DMK-led alliance is hopeful of repeating its 2019 performance in the state, the BJP has conducted a hectic campaign after stitching together an alliance.

8:16 AM

General Elections 2024 LIVE updates: Voting for first phase of Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal begins

Voting in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal's Cooch Behar, Alipurduars and Jalpaiguri seats began today morning, an Election Commission official said. A total of 37 candidates, including Union minister and BJP leader Nisith Pramanik, are in the fray in the three constituencies. Voting is taking place at 5,814 polling stations, of which 2,043 are in Cooch Behar, 1,904 in Jalpaiguri and 1,867 in Alipurduars. All three seats are reserved, with Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri for SCs and Alipurduars for STs.

8:12 AM

Lok Sabha polls 2024 update: Voting begins in 39 LS segments in TN, voting delayed in some booths

Voting began at 7 AM today in all the 39 Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu for the 2024 General Elections, amid tight security arrangements. DMK's Dayanidhi Maran (Central Chennai), A Raja (Nilgiris) and Kanimozhi (Thoothukudi), BJP's K Annamalai (Coimbatore), L Murugan (Nilgiris) and Tamilisai Soundararajan (South Chennai), former Chief Minister O Panneerselvam (Ramanathapuram), Congress party's Karti Chidambaram (Sivaganga), AIADMK's J Jayavardhan (South Chennai) and AMMK chief TTV Dhinakaran (Theni) are among the prominent candidates.

 

 

8:00 AM

Lok Sabha elections: Voting begins for 4 LS seats in Bihar amid tight security

Voting for four Lok Sabha seats in Bihar began this morning, amid tight security arrangements. The polling started at 7 am in Nawada, Aurangabad, Gaya and Jamui, and will go on till 6 pm. Tight security arrangements are in place at Nawada and Aurangabad, besides reserved seats of Gaya and Jamui, where nearly 5,000 polling booths have been marked as 'sensitive', given the history of naxal violence in these areas. Over 7.5 million voters will decide the fate of 38 candidates in these four constituencies.

7:52 AM

Lok Sabha polls: 5 LS seats in Assam commence voting to decide fate of 35 candidates

Voting for five seats in Assam in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections began at 7 am today. The constituencies where voting has started in Dibrugarh, Jorhat and Kaziranga, situated on the south bank of the Brahmaputra river, and in Sonitpur and Lakhimpur - on the north bank.

Over 8.647 million people, comprising 4.364 million women who outnumber 4.282 million men and 123 third gender, are eligible to exercise their franchise in 10,001 polling booths across Assam. The voters will decide the political fate of 35 candidates, including union minister and BJP nominee Sarbananda Sonowal, his rival Lurin Jyoti Gogoi of Assam Jatiya Parishad and Gaurav Gogoi of the Congress.

7:42 AM

Lok Sabha elections: Polling begins for 2 LS seats, 50 assembly segments in Arunachal Pradesh

Viting for the two Lok Sabha seats and 50 assembly constituencies began in Arunachal Pradesh today under a massive security blanket. The polling began at 7 AM and will continue till 5 PM, the CEO informed. An estimated 892,694 voters, including 454,256 women, will exercise their franchise and decide the electoral fate of 133 candidates in the assembly polls and 14 Lok Sabha poll contestants.

7:37 AM

PM Modi calls upon young and first time voters to vote in large numbers

7:34 AM

Lok Sabha election 2024: Voting begins on 102 seats in first of 7-phase polls

Voting for the first phase of 2024 Lok Sabha elections begins today across 102 LS seats, constituting nearly a fifth of the total 543 seats, across 18 states and three Union Territories.

The voting is currently under in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhatisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakshadweep, and Puducherry.