Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE: NDA Leading In 290 Seats, INDIA Ahead In 219, Others at 31; PM Modi Now Ahead After Trailing Initially

PM Modi 3.0 Or India Bloc will wrest power from NDA?

The wait is finally over and the D-Day has arrived as Prime Minister Narendra Modi eyes a record-equalling third straight term in power while the INDIA opposition bloc's hopes to prove exit polls wrong and spring a surprise as the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha election 2024 is set to begin today at 8 am.

Mumbai South Central Result UpdateRound 4Shiv Sena (UBT)'s Anil Desai maintains lead at the end of fourth round of counting. Shiv Sena's Rahul Shewale trailing by 6,547 votes at the end of fourth round.Anil Desai- 82,955

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a lead of 21,629 votes over Congress's Ajay Rai in Varanasi LS seat in Uttar Pradesh: EC.

NDA at 10:30am is leading in 297 seats and India alliance in 215 seats, others at 31

Mumbai South Result Update l Round 2 --- Shiv Sena (UBT)'s Arvind Sawant jumps to lead in the second round. Shiv Sena's Yamini Jadhav trailing by 3,059 votes.Arvind Sawant- 40,089

Mumbai South Central Result Update l Round 3 -- Shiv Sena (UBT)'s Anil Desai maintains lead at the end of third round of counting. Shiv Sena's Rahul Shewale trailing by 3,149 votes at the end of third round. Anil Desai- 60,912

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Sitting Congress MP from Kerala's Wayanad, Rahul Gandhi, is leading by over 20,000 votes against CPI's Annie Raja, the wife of CPI General Secretary D. Raja, and state BJP President K. Surendran, as per early trends on Saturday - IANS

AIADMK candidate Tamilmani leads in Namakkal, the first LS segment where Tamil Nadu's main opposition is leading.

Yamini Jadhav (SS-Shinde) leads over Arvind Sawant (SS-Uddhav) by over 11 thousand votes in Mumbai South seat

BJP's Manoj Tiwari leading in Delhi's North East Seat

10.12 AM: Mehbooba Mufti trailing in Anantnag-Rajouri by over 65,353 votes.

10 am --- PM Narendra Modi is now leading by over 436 votes in Varanasi

At 9:54 am --- NDA Leading In 290 Seats, INDIA Ahead In 219, Others at 31; PM Modi Trailing In Early Trends In Varanasi

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi trailing from Hyderabad,BJP's Madhavi Latha ahead

BIG Update at 9:22 am --- Prime Minister Narendra Modi trailing in early leads in Varanasi

Vote counting update in West Bengal at 9:12 am --- TMC (INDIA) - 15, BJP (NDA) - 19 LF and Congress - 3 Seats - 37/42

As per initial trends by ECI till 9 am, the BJP is leading on 75 seats, Congress leading on 25 seats, Samajwadi Party leading on 8 seats, AAP leading on 5 seats.

At 9:02 am --- Amritpal Singh Independent Candidate is leading in Khadoor Sahib with 4052 Votes. Opposition MVA is leading on 28 seats in Maharashtra, the ruling Mahayuti is ahead in 26 seats. Congress' Shyamkumar Barve is leading in Ramtek, and NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule has outpaced her sister-in-law Sunetra Pawar in Baramati.

Early trends at 8:50 am show Congress leader Rahul Gandhi leading in Wayanad and Rae Bareli, PM Modi leading in Varanasi. In Gandhinagar, Amit Shah is leading, Nitin Gadkari leading in Nagpur, K. Annamalai leading in Coimbatore, Smriti Irani is ahead in Amethi.

At 8: 41 am --- Incumbent BJP MP Tejasvi Surya leads in Bengaluru South; he is pitted against Congress' Sowmya Reddy.

According to Hindi news channel India TV at 8:40 am --- NDA ahead in 288 seats, INDIA Alliance leading in 111 seats, Others ahead in 24

According to ABP News trends at 8:36 am --- NDA 228, INDIA 119, Others 10

As Per Times Now at 8:32 am --- NDA Is Leading in 239 Seats, INDIA Ahead in 96, Others At 16

Early Trends at 8:24 am ---   Nitin Gadkari leading in Nagpur, Om Birla leading in Kota Arun Govil trailing in Meerut,  ML Khattar trailing in Karnal, Pankaja Munde leading in Beed, Owaisi leading in Hyderabad, Dharmendra Yadav is leading in Azamgarh

Updates at 8:19 am --- Kangana Ranaut of BJP is trailing in Mandi. BJP leading in Nagaur. Nishikant Dubey is leading in Jharkhand's Godda

Early trends as postal ballot are being counted at 8:13 am --- Smriti Irani, Dimple Yadav, Kangana Ranaut, Supriya Sule, Piyush Goyal & Mihir Kotecha are ahead

As per India TV at 8:12 am-- BJP candidates Smriti Irani and Navneet Rana are leading from Amethi and Amravati respectively.

According to Times Now --- Abhishek Banerjee of TMC is leading in Diamond Harbour (WB) while Nakul Nath is ahead in Chhindwara. Ravi Kishan is leading in Gorakhpur, Shatrughan Sinha - TMC is trailing in Asansol. BJP is trailing in Shimla.

According to ABP News at 8:06 am--- NDA is leading in 7 of the 10 seats, INDIA alliance is ahead on 3 seats, as per early trends.

BREAKING NEWS - Counting of votes begins, postal ballots to be counted first

All eyes will be glued on Uttar Pradesh, the state having the maximum Lok Sabha seats -80. and how major political parties perform there. The state led by BJP's Yogi Adityanath is seen as one of the most decisive factors in determining which party or alliance will form the government at the Centre. In the 2019 elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) bagged a whopping 62 seats in the state

According to the India Today-Axis My India exit poll, the BJP will emerge as the single-largest party, both in terms of seats and votes. The predictions are a whopping 26-31 seats of the total 42 with a 46 per cent vote share for the BJP, while the TMC will be reduced to 11-14 seats and 40 per cent votes. The Left-Congress alliance is pegged to get 12 per cent votes and the latter probably two seats.

Here's what the Exit poll results projected by different agencies predicated last Saturday. It showed BJP is clinch at least five out of Delhi's seven Lok Sabha seats, while the opposition INDIA bloc (AAP-Congress in Delhi) could bag emerge winners on 2 seats.

IT capital of India, Bengaluru and the the capital city of Karnataka has 4 Lok Sabha seats. The southern city went to polls on April 26. The four seats in Bengaluru are Bangalore Rural, Bangalore North, Bangalore Central, and Bangalore South. In the 2019 elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged victorious in three of the four Bengaluru constituencies, while the Congress could manage clinching just 1 seat. Congress' DK Suresh was won from Bangalore Rural, whereas DV Sadananda Gowda, PC Mohan, and Tejasvi Surya of the BJP won the Bangalore North, Bangalore Central, and Bangalore South seats, respectively.

In the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra, 289 counting centres will be in the spotlight as the Mahayuti alliance (BJP, CM Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar-led NCP) and Maha Vikas Aghadi (Sharad Pawar-led NCP, Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress) aim for political supremacy in the western state. Exit polls have given some hope to the Opposition, with many of them predicting 23 to 32 seats for the NDA and 16 to 25 seats for the INDIA bloc.

Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday said that a "very robust system" has been put in place. "There are around 10.5 lakh booths. Each booth will have 14 tables. There are observers and micro-observers. Nearly, 70-80 lakh people are involved in the process," he said.

Stay with FPJ for live updates on the latest numbers, trends, leads and wins and losses from all across India.

Maharashtra Election Results 2024 Live Updates: On Monday, Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis met MNS leader Raj Thackeray at his residence in Mumbai's Dadar area on. For 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, the MNS has supported the ruling coalition in Maharashtra, which comprises of BJP, Shiv Sena, and Ajit Pawar's faction of the NCP.

The Congress is confident and claiming that the INDIA bloc, a coalition of over 25 opposition parties,will secure victory in the elections with more than 295 seats. In 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP had bagged 303 seats with PM Narendra Modi retaininga second term. Congress which suffered a shock went down to meret 52 seats. What worked for the BJP in 2019 polls were gains in the states of West Bengal and Karnataka in 2019 polls.

Let's look at what the exit polls last Saturday predicted -- Nearly 7 exit polls projected approximately 350-370 seats for the BJP-led NDA in the 543-member Lok Sabha. What they forecast was the INDIA bloc bagging around 107-140 seats. This figure is definitely way short of of the majority mark of 272 seats.

While there is a sense of _deja vu_ as the D-day has dawned, we have to salute the election process and the Indian republic.If there are two words that can describe the 75-day marathon run over 7 phases, it can be _keenly fought_ with the ruling party and the opposition giving their best.

Bitter words were exchanged but thankfully less violence than in times past. Sometimes the level of discourse and debate was less than desirable but that is a given because we are talking of a billion and a half population with unparalleled diversity. Taking umbrage over Akhilesh's comments, BJP said his party may spread "anarchy" on Tuesday. A high-level delegation of the BJP met UP Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa and urged him to take strict action against any such attempts.