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PremiumLok Sabha Election 2024 Live Phase 6: The 58 seats across six states and two Union Territories (UTs) in the 6th phase of Lok Sabha elections recorded over 60% voter turnout on Saturday. According to the Election Commission, till 10.30 pm, West Bengal recorded the highest turnout with 78.27% voter turnout, followed by 63.56 in Jharkhand and 61.84 in Odisha.
Haryana recorded 59.43% voter turnout. While Delhi recorded 56.60% voter turnout, Bihar 55.25, UP recorded 54.3%, and Anantnag Rajouri seat of Jammu and Kashmir recorded 53.60 %.
Several politicians, and prominent personalities cast their votes in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday.
President Droupadi Murmu, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, and senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, among others, cast their votes.
All 10 seats of Haryana and seven seats of Delhi went to polls in this round of voting. The voting was also held on 14 seats of Uttar Pradesh, eight seats each of Bihar and West Bengal, six seats in Odisha, 4 seats in Jharkhand and one seat of Jammu and Kashmir.
The 42 assembly constituencies in Odisha also voted along with the Lok Sabha elections today.
About 11.13 crore people were eligible to vote in this phase of polling held at 1.14 lakh polling stations across 58 seats, the Election Commission of India said. This includes 5.84 crore men, 5.29 crore women and 5,120 third gender electors.
There were over 8.93 lakh registered 85+ years old voters, 23,659 voters above 100 years and 9.58 lakh PwD voters for Phase 6 who have been provided the option to vote from the comfort of their homes, the commission said.
Overall, 889 candidates were in the fray in this phase, the poll panel said.
The key candidates include Bhartiya Janata Party leaders (BJP) leaders Dharmendra Pradhan (Sambalpur), Manoj Tiwari (North East Delhi), Maneka Gandhi (Sultanpur), Abhijit Gangopadhyay (Tamluk), Naveen Jindal (Kurukshetra) and Manohar Lal Khattar (Karnal), to name a few. The Congress party's prominent candidates in the fray today are Kanhaiya Kumar (North East Delhi) and Raj Babbar (Gurgaon). PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti is contesting from Anantnag-Rajouri seat in Jammu and Kashmir.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, among the 58 seats that went to polls on Saturday in the sixth phase, the BJP alone had won 40. And the Congress could not win any of these seats.
The voter turnout in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections held on May 20 was estimated to be 62.15 per cent, which is higher than the polling in the same seats in 2019 when it was 61.82 per cent. The fourth phase of polling held on May 13 recorded a turnout of 69.16 per cent while the third phase held on 7 recorded 65.68 per cent voter turnout. The second phase held on April 26 saw 66.71 per cent turnout and the first phase of polling held on April 19 saw 66.1 turnout, according to the Election Commission of India.
Elections to 486 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats is over by the end of phase 6 polling on Saturday. The remaining 57 seats will vote in the last phase on June 1. The results of seven phases will be declared on June 4.
The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), seeking a record third term under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has set a target of winning 400 seats this election. The ruling alliance is challenged by the opposition parties led by the Congress under the banner of the INDIA bloc.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Till 10.30 pm, the 58 seats recorded 60% approximate voter turnout.
West Bengal: 78.53%
Jharkhand: 63.56
Odisha: 62.07
Haryana: 59.51
Delhi: 56.73
Bihar: 55.24
Uttar Pradesh: 54.3%.
J&K (Anantnag Rajouri): 53.60%
According to the poll officials, the highest polling percentage of 58.30 per cent was recorded in North East Delhi where sitting BJP MP Manoj Tiwari is pitted against Kanhaiya Kumar of Congress.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: I thank all those who have voted in the penultimate phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. NDA’s numbers are looking better and better. People have realised that since INDI Alliance is coming nowhere close to power, voting for it is futile, said PM Modi in a post on X.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Till 7.45 pm, the 58 seats recorded 59.8% approximate voter turnout.
West Bengal: 78.19%
Jharkhand: 62.87
Odisha: 60.07
Delhi: 54.48
Uttar Pradesh: 54.3%.
J&K (Anantnag Rajouri): 52.28 %
Haryana: 58.44
Bihar: 53.46
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: The Election Commission of India on Saturday said that Anantnag-Rajouri seat made history, as it recorded its highest turnout in last 35 years, at 51.35 % in General Elections 2024
With this, all three PCs in Kashmir valley have now recorded highest voter turnouts now, said EC.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said that a high amount of voting is happening in the national capital. “The people of Delhi are coming out to vote even in the extreme heat... The INDIA alliance is growing with every phase... The trouble for the NDA is increasing everyday."
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Narain Lal Nadda, father of BJP chief JP Nadda, casts his vote in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Election Commission of India said that the 58 seats voting today saw 57.70% approximate voter turnout till 5 pm. West Bengal recorded 77.99%, while UP recorded 52.2%. Delhi recorded 53.75 % while Anantnag Rajouri seat of Jammu and Kashmir recorded 51.35 % turnout, the poll panel said. While Jharkhand recorded 61.14 % turnout till 5 pm, Bihar and Haryana recorded 52 and 53 per cent turnout, respectively.
BJP candidate from Jhargram Lok Sabha seat, Pranat Tudu was attacked allegedly by miscreants when he was visiting booth number 200 in Monglapota in the parliamentary constituency today.
"We got information yesterday that BJP voters in Monglapota are not being allowed to vote. Due to this, we came to this area to check what was the problem. Here around 200 people attacked us with lathis, stones and some weapons. We could have been murdered if Central forces would not have been there...We did not get any protection from the local police...Didi doesn't want to impose CAA and make the country into Pakistan," Tudu told ANI.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Bollywood star Sidharth Malhotra flaunts his inked finger as he casts vote in his hometown
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Union Minister and BJP candidate Dharmendra Pradhan from Odisha's Sambalpur Lok Sabha seat cast his vote at a polling booth in Bhubaneswar
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat alleged that she had to wait for almost an hour to cast her vote as the battery of the EVM control unit at her polling booth "drained out".
CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat, who had gone to exercise her franchise at St Columba's School in the New Delhi constituency, alleged she had to wait for almost an hour to cast her vote as the battery of the EVM control unit at her polling booth "drained out".
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: According to Election Commission data, polling began at 7 am in Haryana, the overall turnout till 9 am was 8.31%, rising to 22.09% at 11 am, 36.48% at 1 pm and touching 46.26% at 3 pm
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Delhi Chief Electoral Officer has said the national capital recorded a voter turnout of approximately 44.58% till 3 pm on Saturday.
The office of the Chief Electoral Officer said that at 47.85%, the highest turnout was recorded in the North East Delhi constituency while the New Delhi seat had the lowest voting percentage at 42.17.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'mujra' remark AAP leader Sanjay Singh said “I have said this time and again that PM Modi’s language doesn’t seem to be that of a man sitting at such a high Constitutional post. He has no control over his speech. It is unfortunate what he said today; no one is taking him seriously in the country and he is disappointed by this fact."
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and his wife Kalpana Das arrive at a polling centre in New Delhi to cast their votes in the sixth phase of polling.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: According to the EC, West Bengal recorded the highest voter turnout (70.19%) followed by Jharkhand (54.34 %), Uttar Pradesh (43.95%), Odisha (48.44%), Jammu and Kashmir (44.41%), Bihar (45.21%), Haryana (46.26%), and Delhi (44.58%)
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi and RJD leader Manoj Jha on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his ‘mujra’ for vote bank remark. While Priyanka Gandhi said that no Prime Minister has ever used such words. Manoj Jha quipped that he is now worried about PM. Read More Here
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: "As per my political analysis, we (BJP-led NDA) had formed the government after the fifth phase, and the sixth and seventh phases will help us cross the 400 seat-mark," says Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: According to Election Commission, West Bengal recorded 70% voter turnout till 3pm, while UP recorded 43.95 %. Delhi recorded 44.58 % while Anantnag Rajouri seat of Jammu and Kashmir recorded 44.41 % turnout. Jharkhand recorded 54.34 % turnout, Haryana 46.26 and Bihar 45.21 percent.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi said that these elections are against dictatorship, to save the constitution, and to save democracy. "I want to urge the people of Delhi to exercise their rights and choose their representative in the Parliament... AAP has always worked for the welfare of women. We installed CCTV cameras to ensure their security, we gave them free bus rides, and recently the CM announced ₹1000 each for every woman of Delhi every month," said Shelly Oberoi.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: The Election Commission Of India (ECI) shared a photo of voters standing in a long queue to cast their vote in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Chief Electoral Officer Maharashtra says, "It is noticed that some old video from other states are getting circulated through social media showing miscreants trying to vitiate the poll process and particularly tampering with EVM. It is clarified that such videos are not related to Lok Sabha Elections 2024 in Maharashtra. The poll in the state is completed smoothly and peacefully."
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Co-founder and CMO of boAt, Aman Gupta cast his vote at a polling station in Hauz Khas, Delhi, earlier today.
“Today, I am not an entrepreneur or a businessman, I have come to cast my vote as an Indian. I would appeal to the people also to cast their vote and help in the formation of the government. Every vote counts; it is not a holiday," said Aman Gupta.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: BJP candidate from Odisha's Puri Lok Sabha constituency Sambit Patra claimed that the EVMs are not working at several booths in Puri town and people were facing inconvenience. Reacting to his claim, EC official termed the allegations as baseless.
“The general allegations made regarding non functioning of EVMs in Puri & the allegation that those are sponsored are incorrect & baseless. In Booth No 77 of 107 Puri AC, mock poll was conducted in presence of Polling agents," said Puri District Election Officer in a post on X.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat on Saturday failed to cast her vote at a polling booth set up in St Thomas School in Delhi as she was told that the machine’s battery is down. Speaking to PTI, Karat said that she has written a complaint about the same.
However, reacting to her claim, in a post on X, New Delhi District Election Officer said, "Battery of CU of PS 27, St. Columbus school Ashok place drained at the time. Approx. 10 voters were in queue. Battery was replaced in 15 minutes and voting resumed. Presently, voting is going smoothly. Queue in shaded area."
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: The 58 seats voting today saw 39.13 % approximate voter turnout till 1 pm, Election Commission of India said. West Bengal recorded 54.8%, while UP recorded 37.23 %. Delhi recorded 34.37 % while Anantnag Rajouri seat of Jammu and Kashmir recorded 35.22 % turnout, the poll panel said. Jharkhand recorded 42.5% turnout till 1 pm.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Former Indian cricket team captain MS Dhoni votes in Ranchi. 58 seats are voting in the sixth phase of polling on Saturday.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday asked Pakistan leader Ch Fawad Hussain to stop interfering in elections being held in India. Hussain, a PTI leader, had quote tweeted Arvind Kejriwal's tweet about casting vote. “The elections taking place in India are our internal matter. India will not tolerate interference from the biggest sponsors of terrorism," Kejriwal said in response.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma cast her vote at a polling station in Delhi during the Phase 6 of Lok Sabha Elections on Saturday.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: INDIA bloc candidate Somnath Bharti alleges foul play by BJP in the New Delhi seat that he is contesting. Bharti is pitted against Bansuri Swaraj of BJP from New Delhi seat.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: The 58 seats voting today saw 25.76 % approximate voter turnout till 11 am, Election Commission of India said. West Bengal recorded 36.88%, while UP recorded 27.06 %. Delhi recorded 21.69 % while Anantnag Rajouri seat of Jammu and Kashmir recorded 23.1 % turnout, the poll panel said.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Long queues of voters were seen during the Phase 6 polling in West Bengal where eight seats are voting today. West Bengal recorded 16.5 per cent voting till 9 am.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, his wife Sunita Kejriwal cast their votes for the sixth phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 at a polling booth in Delhi on Saturday. All seven seats of Delhi are voting in the sixth phase of polling on May 25.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Voters took selfies after casting votes in Jharkhand in the sixth and penultimate phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 on Saturday.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar casts his vote for the sixth phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024, at a polling booth in Delhi.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya along with his wife and family members casttheir votes at polling centre in Jwala Devi Inter College under Phulpur Parliamentary seat in Prayagraj in Phase 6 polling on Saturday.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: BJP candidate from Chandni Chowk Praveen Khandelwal cast his vote along with his family consisting of his 84 year old mother in the sixth phase of polling on Saturday.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi clicks a selfie with his mother Sonia Gandhi after casting his vote at a polling booth during the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections, in New Delhi on Saturday
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, among the 58 seats polling today in the sixth phase, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had won 45 seats. The parties in the opposition INDIA bloc could win just 5 seats.
To break it further, the BJP had won 40 of these seats in 2019. And the Congress could not win any of these seats. Instead, the 5 INDIA bloc seats in 2019 were won by the Trinamool Congress (TMC), the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) and the Samajwadi Party (SP).
Read More: In 2019, Congress couldn't win any of the 58 seats voting in phase 6 today, BJP bagged 40
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra 's son and daughter cast their votes in the sixth phase of the general elections. Priyanka's son Raihan Rajiv Vadra and daughter Miraya urged everyone to exercise their rights.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: The 58 seats voting in phase 6 registered 10.82 % approximate voter turnout till 9 am, Election Commission of India said. West Bengal recorded 16.5%, while UP recorded 12.3 %. Delhi recorded 8.9 % while Anantnag Rajouri seat of Jammu and Kashmir recorded 8.8 % turnout, the poll panel said. Among other states, Bihar saw 9.6 %, Haryana 8.3 %, Jharkhand 11.7 % and Odisha 7.4 % turnout till 9 am.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Election Commissioner Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, his family members show their inked fingers after casting their votes for Lok Sabha Elections 2024 in Delhi. 58 seats are voting in phase 6 today.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Ajay Bijli, MD PVR Cinemas, cast his vote during the sixth phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 on Saturday.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: BJP candidate from Kurukshetra Naveen Jindal and his wife Shalu Jindal stand in a queue to cast their votes for #LokSabhaElections2024 at a polling station in their constituency. INDIA bloc has fielded AAP leader Sushil Gupta from the Kurukshetra seat.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Long queues of voters was seen in Anantnag-Rajouri seat of Jammu and Kashmir seat voting in the Phase 6 of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 today. PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti is pitted againts NC candidate Mian Altaf from the seat.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar cast his vote in the phase 6 of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 in the national capital on Saturday.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Sitting BJP MP from Allahabad seat Rita Bahuguna Joshi with her husband Puran Chandra Joshi cast their votes in Civil Lines under Phulpur parliamentary constituency of Prayagraj on Saturday. BJP has fielded Neeraj Tripathi, son of former West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi, as their candidate from Allahabad seat.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: BJP candidate from Phulpur seat Praveen Patel along with his wife and family members after casting their votes at polling station at Primary School, Andawa in Prayagraj on Saturday. Phulpur seat on Prayagraj (erstwhile Allahabad) was once represented by India's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru.
