Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: Nitish Kumar to attend NDA meeting in Delhi, report says

In at least 15 Lok Sabha seats, the margin of votes between the top two leading candidates was less than the votes secured by the person third in the tally by 6 pm.

Majority of these constituencies are in Uttar Pradesh and the party that is on the third slot even as the counting is still underway on several seats is the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), a party neither with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) or the opposition INDIA bloc.

Interestingly, in at least two seats -- Siwan and Karakat, both in Bihar, an Independent is right behind the leading candidate.

Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar will on Wednesday take part in the NDA meeting scheduled in the national capital, highly placed sources told news agency PTI.

Kumar, whose party is set to grab 12 out of the state's 40 seats, will be leaving for Delhi in the morning.

Kumar had visited Delhi during the weekend when he met top BJP leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

With the BJP falling short of majority, Kumar is being seen as a key player whom the opposition INDIA bloc is also sending fillers. 

"This is a victory of the people of Pataliputra constituency; women, youth, our hardworking party workers and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s blessings have all won today. The people of India have rejected BJP and they have shown their faith in us. INDIA alliance is going to form the government at the Centre, and we will fulfill all our promises," she said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said people have shown full confidence in the BJP and the NDA and the Lok Sabha elections results were a victory of the people, democracy and faith in the country's Constitution.

"After 1962, for the first time a government has won the mandate for a third consecutive term," Modi said addressing a gathering at the BJP headquarters.

The Congress on Tuesday broke its decade-long jinx in Gujarat as its candidate Geniben Thakor won from Banaskantha Lok Sabha seat by more than 30,000 votes.

Congress had drawn a blank in the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi both in 2014 and 2019 when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had swept all 26 seats.

This time, the BJP is poised to win 25 seats.

Thakor defeated the BJP's Rekha Chaudhari by 30,406 votes in a nail-biting contest. Thakor polled 6,71,883 votes against her rival's 6,41,477.

The Biju Janata Dal on Tuesday congratulated the BJP for its success in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the state and thanked the people of Odisha for allowing the regional party to serve them.

BJD spokesperson Sasmit Patra, Manas R Mangaraj and MP Sulatra Deo in a joint press conference said that the regional party was indebted to the people of Odisha for allowing it to serve the state for uninterrupted 24 years.

"We are grateful to the people of Odisha for blessing us for 24 years to serve them. We are thankful to the people. We are also indebted to the people for having blessed us in this election also. The party has got about 40 per cent vote share though it is less by three per cent from the previous elections," Patra said.

Stating that a slight decline in vote share made a difference in the number of seats, Patra said: "The party has got about 50 seats. We will work as per the wishes of the people in coming days," he said.

The BJP has won 43 seats and was leading in 35 constituencies in the 147-member Odisha Assembly.

BJP candidate Dilip Ghosh, the previous West Bengal state president of the saffron party, was defeated in Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency by a margin of 1,37,981 votes, the Election Commission said on Tuesday.

He was defeated by Kirti Azad, the cricketer-turned-candidate of the Trinamool Congress.

Ghosh, accustomed to facing challenges, was tasked with retaining a seat won narrowly by the BJP's S S Ahluwalia by about 3,000 votes in the last elections.

He was, however, defeated by 1,37,981 votes this time around, according to the EC data.

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Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, the TDP candidate from Guntur, is set to become the richest winner with assets valued at Rs 5,700 crore. Pemmasani is leading by over 3.3 lakh votes.

BJP's Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, who contested from the Chevella seat in neighbouring Telangana, the second wealthiest candidate with assets worth Rs 4,568 crore, is also poised to win.

Reddy is ahead with a comfortable margin of over 1.5 lakh votes.

Industrialist Naveen Jindal, the BJP candidate from Haryana's Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat, declared assets worth Rs 1,241 crore and is leading with over 30,000 votes.

TDP candidate from Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, Prabhakar Reddy Vemireddy, declared assets worth Rs 716 crore and is leading by over 2.3 lakh votes, turning out to be another wealthy candidate staring at victory.

Union Minister and BJP candidate from Guna in Madhya Pradesh, Jyotiraditya M Scindia, had declared assets worth Rs 424 crore.

Actor-turned-politician and BJP's Mathura candidate, Hema Malini, declared assets worth Rs 278 crore.

Scindia won by a margin of over 5 lakh votes while Hema Malini is leading by 2.8 lakh votes.

There are 2,572 crorepati candidates in the fray.

BJP - 
Narendra Modi from Varanasi
Kangana Ranaut from Mandi
Anurag Thakur from Hamirpur
Basavraj Bommai from Haveri
Prahlad Joshi from Dharwad
Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna
Arun Ram Meghawal from Bikaner
Om Birla from Kota
Karan Bhushan Singh from Kaiserganj
Amit Shah from Gandhinagar
Kiren Rijiju from Arunachal West

Tejasvi Surya from Banglore South

Praveen Khandelwal from Chandni Chowk

Congress

Shreyas M Patil from Hassan
Rahul Gandhi from Wayanad
KC Venugopal from Alapuzzha
Shashi Tharoor from Thiuvananthapuram 
Charanjit Singh Channi from Jalandhar 
Kishori Lal Sharma from Amethi

'BJP doesn't respect people, but the fact is KL Sharma has been working in Amethi for the past 40 years. He is very closely connected to the people of Amethi. Calling him PA and giving him names is very offensive. 

-The fight was to save the constitution

-I expected Indians to fight in unison and that has come true. 

-You have taken the first step towards saving the constitution. 

-We respected our coalition partners and respected their vision

-We have given India a new vision, a vision that is pro poor, a vision that is pro production

-The country has unanimously told that it will not allow Mr Modi and Mr Shah to run the country 

- People have understood the link between Adani and Modi, if Modi wins Adani shares rise, if Modi faces defeat Adani shares fall

- The poorest of the country have voted to save the constitution 

-'People of India have sent a clear message'

-'People believe that If Modi got another chance the constitution will be chanfged'

Actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut has edged past Congress Vikramaditya Singh to conclude a fiery competition between the two rivals.

BJP candidate Ranaut received 5,37,022 votes while Singh had a tally of 4,62,267 in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has been declared the winner from Gujarat's Gandhinagar in the 18th Lok Sabha elections. The BJP leader received 10,10,972 votes to make her Congress rival Sonal Ramanbhai Patel a distant second.

PM Narendra Modi will retain his Lok Sabha seat from Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi for a third straight term. The BJP leader has sealed a victory against Congress' Ajay Rai.

Modi receieved 6,12,970 votes in the 18th Lok Sabha elections and comfortably defeated Rai by 1,52,513 votes.

BJP's Shankar Lalwani has sealed a comfortable victory in the Lok Sabha polls with 12,26,751 votes in his favour.

His biggest competition was not from any opposing candidate but the NOTA button.

NOTA, or None of the Above, was the choice of 2,18,674 voters of Indore.

Sanjay Solanki was of the BSP was the third on the list with 51,659 in his kitty.

NOTA created a record with 2.18 lakh voters in Madhya Pradesh's Indore.

It, apparently, was the runner-up on the Indore seat.

14.01% of total voters opted for 'None of the Above', which was introduced in 2013 following a Supreme Court order.

2nd highest is 51,660. On Gopalganj seat, in the 2019 parliamentary polls 5% of voters of the state opted for the NOTA.

As per EC, over 4.62 lakh (0.99 per cent of the total voters opted for NOTA.

Comedian Shyam Rangeela, who wished to contest the Lok Sabha elections against PM Modi, went on a spree on social media as poll results were being declared.

"Who stopped the comedian from Rajasthan in Uttar Pradesh,
Now Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh shocked them and defeated them," he said in one of the posts.

He also reacted to an old post made by PM Modi.

"Today I experienced how sometimes immense happiness turns into immense sorrow," the prime minsiter's post read.

To this he replied, "Modi ji, I too had this experience at the time of the pamphlet, it seems you need to pay a little more attention."

The Aam Aadmi Party won the Sangrur consituency after Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer receieved 3,64,085 in the Lok Sabha elections.

He left behind Congress candidate Sukhpal Singh Khaira by 1,72,560 votes.

Pollster Pradeep Gupta breaks down during India Today live coverage. 

His Axis My India had predicted a Modi landslide with a range of 361-401 seats for the NDA. 

HD Kumaraswamy beats his Congress opponent Venkataramane Gowda by a margin of 2,84,620 votes. The JD(S) leader received a total of 8,51,881 votes to win in Karnataka's Mandya.

5 unexpected results so far

1: Congress' Amethi Lok Sabha candidate Kishori Lal Sharma has secured a lead of more than 1 lakh votes over sitting BJP MP and Union Minister Smriti Irani, dubbed a giant slayer after she defeated Rahul Gandhi from the seat in 2019.

2: Another unexpected result is unfolding in West Bengal's Baharampur seat, where TMC candidate and first-time contender Yusuf Pathan is leading against Congress' leader in the outgoing Lok Sabha and six-time MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury by 29,781 votes.

3: Union Minister and two-time MP from Kheri, Ajay Kumar Teni, is trailing behind Samajwadi Party's (SP) Utkarsh Verma Madhur by 30,337 votes.

4: Senior BJP leader and former Union minister Maneka Gandhi is also trailing in the Sultanpur constituency against SP candidate Rambhual Nishad by 22,637 votes.

5: Annamalai Kuppusamy, the BJP Tamil Nadu president, is trailing in Coimbatore against DMK's Ganapathy Rajkumar P by 33,230 votes.

Uddhav Thackrey tells India Today to 'wait a little more', he will speak

Over speculations on social media of him speaking to JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, NCP-SCP chief Sharad Pawar says "I have not spoken with anyone yet."

BJP's Govind Makthappa Karjol has emerged victorious in electoral battle in Karnataka's Chitradurga, the Election Commission said.

Karjol had a surplus of 48,121 votes against Congress opponent BN Chandrappa, who received 6,36,769 votes.

ABP is reporting that Nitish Kumar has been offered the role of Deputy PM. 

India Today: Mallikaarjun Kharge calls a meeting of INDIA leaders in this evening.
The meeting was earlier scheduled for June 5. 

Former Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi has been declared the winner from the Jalandhar constituency.

The Congress leader secured 3,90,053 votes to win the election. He left behind BJP opponent Sushil Kumar Rinku by 1,75,993 votes.
 
 

BJP's Manju Sharma wins the Jaipur seat in Rajasthan. 

Prajwal Revanna likely to face defeat by 43123 votes in Hassan, Karnataka. He received 6,26,108 votes
His opponent Congress' Shreyas M. Patel received 6,69,231 votes

NDA Alliance - 294
BJP - 241
JDS - 2
NCP - 2
JSP - 2
OTHERS - 47

INDIA Alliance - 232
CONG - 97
NCP SP 6
RJD 4
CPM 4
IUML 3
Rest - 122

While Kishori Lal has a lead nearing 1 lakh, Smriti Irani has managed to get 2,24,871 votes 

Sharad Pawar in touch with Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu - India Today reports quoting sources. 

543/543 seats-

Breakdown - 

NDA - 300
INDIA - 225
OTH - 18

Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah called up TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu and congratulated him, as per ANI. 

The official ECI trends, TDP is leading on 16 Lok Sabha seats and is leading on 131 Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh. Counting for both elections is underway. 

As per India Today, Naidu said that the Chief Minister swearing in ceremony would happen on 9th of June and they have invited PM Modi. 

Omar Abdullah is out of the fight and has accepted defeat. He said, 'time to accept the inevitable'

On the Baramulla seat, Rashid Engineer who is currently in jail is leading by 1,28,441.

NDA Alliance
BJP - 39.1%
JDU - 1.0%
APNA DAL - 0.1%
Rest - 5.2%

INDIA Alliance
CONG - 25.2%
SP - 3.8%
TMC - 3.4%
REST - 10.2%

The London postgrad Iqra Hasan, who is contesting on a SP ticket is leading by more than 10,000 votes from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh.

The 29-year-old was in the limelight because of her campaigns in the LS polls. If she wins from Kairana, she will be taking her family legacy ahead with that.

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Andhra Pradesh - 175 SEATS

TDP-129
YSRCP-21
JSP-19
BJP-6

ODISHA- 147 SEATS
BJP- 71
BJD-59
INC-15
IND-2

Samajwadi Party leader Awadesh Prasad is leading by 2,244 votes in Uttar Pradesh's Faizabad, a constituency that houses Ayodhya's Ram Temple.

BJP's Lallu Singh is currently the runner-up and has tallied 1,83,805 votes so far.

Congress' candidate from Haryana's Gurgaon is leading by 13,698 votes. His BJP rival Rao Inderjit Singh was in second place, as per ECI.
 
 

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appears to have cemented his victory in the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat by attaining a huge lead of over 2 lakh votes against his rivals, according to the figures given by the Election Commission.

By 12.13 pm, of the 3,77,905 votes counted, Gandhi received 2,25,691 while his nearest rival -- CPI's Annie Raja -- got 96,677 votes and BJP's K Surendran was at a distant third with 50,713 votes. Rahul had won from Wayanad LS seat in 2019 with a huge margin by getting 7,06,367 votes out of the total of 10,92,197.

BJP candidate and actor-turned-politician Suresh Gopi appears poised for a win in the Thrissur Lok Sabha seat with a comfortable lead of over 58,000 votes against his nearest rival, according to the Election Commission figures.

Gopi, till around 12.15 pm, got 2,97,760 votes, surpassing the 2,93,822 total votes he received in the 2019 LS polls in Thrissur.  His nearest rival this time is CPI's V S Sunilkumar who got 2,39,241 votes till around 12.15 pm and Congress' K Muraleedharan was third with 2,33,517 votes. T

he actor had lost from Thrissur in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and then in the 2021 state assembly polls.

BJP and Congress were leading in 8 seats each out of 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana at 12.30 pm.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi was ahead of his nearest BJP rival K Madhavi Latha in the Hyderabad parliamentary constituency.

Breakdown of NDA - 294/543
BJP - 241
TDP -16
SENA -5
JDU -14
LJP(RV) - 5
12:39

Breakdown of INDIA bloc- 229/543
Congress- 93
Samajwadi Party- 36
TMC-31
SS UBT- 11
NCP SP- 7
RJD- 4
CPI M- 5
DMK- 21

*The numbers are from News18

-Mamata prevails over BJP, TMC leading on 30 of 42 seats
-BJP underperforms compared to 2019, leading on 10 seats
-Congress, CPI(M) leading on 1 seat each
-Mahua Moitra, Abhishek Banerjee leading on respective seats
-Neck-and-neck fight in Baharampur, Yusuf Pathan marginally ahead of Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal leading by over 1 lakh votes in Dibrugarh

DMK's A Raja leading in Nilgiris

RJD's Misa Bharti is leading, Rohini Acharya is trailing

Maneka Gandhi trailing by a margin of 10,078 votes in Sultanpur (Uttar Pradesh)

Eknath Sinde's son and Shiv Sena leader Shrikant Shinde leading by 97782 votes in Kalyan

BJP's Kangna Ranaut leads in Himachal's Mandi seat by 54,042 votes.

Arjun Munda of BJP is trailing by 41,622 votes in the Khunti

Arun Govil of BJP is leading by 2750 in Meerut

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NOTA runner up in Indore with more than 1 lakh votes

The TMC raced ahead of its rivals, leading in 28 seats after several rounds of counting, while the BJP led in 11, Congress and CPI(M) in one each, according to the Election Commission website. TMC candidate and sitting MP Abhishek Banerjee is leading in the Diamond Harbour constituency over his nearest rival, BJP's Abhijit Das, by a margin of 115,933 votes.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi increases lead by over one lakh votes against nearest rival in Kerala's Wayanad LS seat: EC.
 
 

Dhruv Rathee, a fierce critic of the BJP, has questioned the legitimacy of exit polls in India. "Did they all do this to manipulate the stock market? Or were they threatened by someone to do it?" the YouTube star wrote on social media.