Indian Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live Phase 6: Today, May 25, voting will take place in 58 seats across six states and two union territories (UTs) in the sixth and penultimate phase of the Indian Lok Sabha Elections 2024. In this poll, voting will take place in all 10 seats in Haryana and seven seats in Delhi.
Voting, which begins at 7 am, will take place in Bihar (8 seats), Haryana (all 10 seats), Jammu and Kashmir (1 seat), Jharkhand (4 seats), Delhi (all 7 seats), Odisha (6 seats), Uttar Pradesh (14 seats) and West Bengal (8 seats).
Forty-two constituencies in Odisha will also be voting simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections.
According to the Election Commission of India, a total of 889 candidates are in the fray at this stage.
The leading candidates in today’s contest include Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Dharmendra Pradhan (Sambalpur), Manoj Tiwari (North East Delhi), Maneka Gandhi (Sultanpur), Abhijit Gangopadhyay (Tamluk), Naveen Jindal (Kurukshetra) and Manohar Lal, to name a few. The leading Congress candidates in today’s contest are Kanya Kumar (North East Delhi) and Raj Babbar (Gurgaon). PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti is contesting from Anantnag Rajouri constituency in Jammu and Kashmir.
In the 2019 Indian Lok Sabha elections, the BJP alone won 40 of the 58 seats going to polls today in the sixth phase of the election. The Indian National Congress failed to win any of these seats.
Turnout for the fifth phase of India’s Lok Sabha elections, held on May 20, was estimated at 62.15%, surpassing the 61.82% turnout in the same constituency in 2019.
Elections for 486 of India’s 543 lower house seats will be concluded by the end of the sixth phase of voting today. The remaining 57 seats will go to polls in the final phase on June 1.
The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), seeking a record third term under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is targeting 400 seats in the upcoming election. The ruling coalition is taking on the opposition, led by the Indian National Congress, under the banner of the United India Party.
