2024 Lok Sabha Elections Phase 6 Voting Live Updates: Voting peacefully held in 58 constituencies, voter turnout at 59.06%, ECI announces – India News

On Saturday, a nomadic couple walked together for hours in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district to exercise their democratic right.

Despite the hot weather in the country, voters remained undeterred and enthusiastic to cast their votes. A large number of voters formed long queues at the polling stations at the stipulated time of closing of polls.

The ECI issued a press note saying that the sixth phase of voting for the 2024 general elections recorded around 59.06% voter turnout as of 7.45 pm.

Six people, including four women, sustained minor injuries in clashes between supporters of two candidates outside a polling station in Mendhar area of ​​Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Saturday, news agency PTI reported.

Delhi recorded a voter turnout of 53.73 percent by 5 pm on Saturday as residents braved scorching heat to cast their vote in seven Lok Sabha constituencies. In the 2019 general election, Delhi had a voter turnout of 60.52 percent and the BJP won all seats.

At Delhi’s Nirman Bhawan, the sixth phase of voting has concluded and EVMs have been sealed at the polling booth.

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BJP candidate from Jhargram Assembly constituency Pranath Tudu was allegedly attacked by miscreants while visiting booth number 200 in Mongrapota Assembly constituency today.

Voting for the sixth phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections ends as EVMs are sealed at booths in East Champaran

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According to data released by the ECI, the voter turnout at 5 pm was as follows:

Bihar – 52.24%

Haryana – 55.93%

Jammu and Kashmir – 51.35%

Jharkhand – 61.41%

NCT of Delhi – 53.73%

Odisha – 59.60%

Uttar Pradesh – 52.02%

West Bengal – 77.99%

The turnout by 5 pm was recorded at 57.70 percent. The sixth and penultimate round of Indian Lok Sabha elections is currently underway in 58 constituencies across six states and two union territories, including all seven seats in Delhi.

The Election Commission of India welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision not to interfere in the plea seeking uploading of Form 17C data. The commission had asserted that the voting data of all candidates shared with polling officials through Form 17C on the polling day cannot be altered.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Saturday that India would win around 300 seats after the sixth round of voting in the national capital for the Lok Sabha elections. He said the people and “India – Bharat” would win.

Just metres from the Line of Control (LoC), polling stations for the Lok Sabha elections in Sehar and Makri, the last Indian villages in the area of ​​Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir, were bustling with eager voters. Despite their closeness to the border, voters turned out in large numbers to exercise their right to vote without fear of cross-border shelling.

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and his wife Kalpana Das arrived at a polling station in New Delhi to cast their vote in the sixth phase of the election.

The Election Commission on Saturday released voter turnout data for India’s first five Lok Sabha elections, highlighting the rampant malicious attempts to deliberately create false reports and undermine the electoral process.

Actor Siddharth Malhotra has fulfilled his duty as a responsible citizen and flown out to his hometown to cast his vote in the ongoing sixth phase of the Indian Lok Sabha elections 2024. After casting his vote on Saturday, Siddharth shared a picture of himself on his Instagram account.

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Uttar Pradesh, where voting is underway in 14 constituencies for the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections, recorded a voter turnout of 43.95 percent by 3 pm.

The voter turnout recorded in Uttar Pradesh by the Election Commission is as follows:

– Ambedkarnagar recorded 50.01%

– Basti recorded 47.03%

– Azamgarh recorded 45.38%

– Sultanpur recorded 45.31%

– Lalganj recorded 44.63%.

– Domariaganj recorded 43.96%.

– Jaunpur recorded 43.75%.

Voters in Punjab will be able to check the length of queues at polling stations from their homes from June 1, state electoral commissioner (CEO) Shivin C announced following the launch of the ‘Voter Queue Information System’ on Saturday.

The ongoing sixth phase of Indian Lok Sabha elections recorded a voter turnout of around 49.2 percent by 3 pm.

Voter turnout data by state can be found here.

Bihar: 45.21 percent

Haryana: 46.26 percent

Jammu and Kashmir: 44.41 percent

Jharkhand: 54.34%

NCT of Delhi: 44.58 percent

Odisha: 48.44 percent

Uttar Pradesh: 43.95 percent

West Bengal: 70.19 percent

Voter turnout by 3 pm was recorded at 49.2 percent. Voting in the sixth and penultimate round of India’s Lok Sabha elections is underway in 58 constituencies across six states and two union territories, including all seven seats in Delhi.

The state, which has the largest number of MPs in India’s lower house with 80, has already concluded voting for 53 seats in the first to fifth phases, with the remaining 13 seats due to go to polls in the seventh phase on June 1. Counting of votes for all seven phases is scheduled for June 4.

“It has been noticed that old videos from other states are being circulated through social media, in which miscreants are seen trying to disrupt the voting process, especially tampering with the Election Commission. It is clear that such videos have no connection to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra. Polling in the state has been completed smoothly and peacefully,” Maharashtra Election Commissioner said in a post on X.

Uttar Pradesh, where voting is underway in 14 constituencies, recorded a voter turnout of 37.23 per cent by 1 pm. Polling began at 7 am and ended at 6 pm. Among the constituencies, Ambedkar Nagar recorded the highest voter turnout at 41.59 per cent, followed by Basti at 40.07 per cent, Sultanpur at 38.42 per cent, Azamgarh at 38.37 per cent, Lalganj at 38.12 per cent and Domariaganj at 37.64 per cent.

The turnout in Jaunpur was 37.41 per cent, Machilishahar 37.36 per cent, Shrawasti 36.74 per cent, Pratapagarh 36.01 per cent, Bhadohi 35.82 per cent, Allahabad 34.06 per cent and Phoolpur 33.05 per cent. The turnout in the Gainsari Assembly by-elections was 37.59 per cent.

Eight constituencies in West Bengal’s Assembly, where elections for the sixth phase were held on Saturday, recorded a voter turnout of 54.80 per cent by 1 pm, officials said.

Polling began at 7 am in Tamluk, Kanti, Ghatal, Jhargram, Medinipur, Purulia, Bankura and Bishnupur constituencies. Bishnupur (SC) had the highest voter turnout of 58.64 percent, followed by Tamluk (57.64 percent), Ghatal (57.31 percent), Jhargram (ST) (56.95 percent), Bankura (54.21 percent), Kanti (51.66 percent), Medinipur (51.57 percent) and Purulia (50.34 percent). Polling will close at 6 pm.

A total of 1,45,34,228 voters — 73,63,273 male, 71,70,822 female and 133 belonging to the third gender — are eligible to exercise their franchise at 15,600 polling stations.

Of the 79 candidates, Bankura and Jhargram have the highest number of candidates with 13 each, followed by Purulia (12), Medinipur and Tamluk with nine each. Bishnupur and Ghattal constituencies have seven candidates each.

919 companies of central commands have been deployed along with more than 29,000 state police personnel.

In Ranchi, Congress’ Yashaswini Sahay, daughter of former Union minister Subodh Kant Sahay, is contesting against BJP’s Sanjay Seth, while in Dhanbad, the battle is on between the BJP’s Baghmara MP Dhul Mahato and the Congress.Anupama Singh. In Jamshedpur, BJP’s Bidyut Balan Mahato is challenging JMM’s Baharagolla MP Sameer Mohanty. In Giridih, AJSU’s Chandra Prakash Chaudhary is challenging JMM’s Tundi MP Mathura Mahato.

Kalpana Soren, wife of jailed former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, also voted. After casting her vote, she posted on X, “Today, I exercised my right to vote by taking part in this election celebration for a great victory of justice over injustice. I request you all to go to the polling booths in large numbers and exercise your right to vote to protect our democracy and constitution. If Hemant is there, he is brave! Jharkhand will not succumb! India will not stop!”