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

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).