Live updates of 6th phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024: As residents of eight states and union territories cast their votes today to decide the fate of 889 candidates for 58 seats, multiple complaints have been received in the national capital, Anantanagrajuli in Jammu and Kashmir and Puri in Odisha over issues related to polling stations. PDP leader Mehboob Mufti has staged a sit-in protest alleging that his party’s poll workers are being confined to police stations, while INDIA block’s North West Delhi candidate Udit Raj said that poll workers are being barred from entering polling stations. BJP’s Puri candidate Sambit Patra said they are seeking an extension of time as some polling stations have not functioned for some time. With the sixth phase of voting over, only 57 seats will go to polls in the seventh phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
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Where are people voting? After a fierce election campaign following Arvind Kejriwal’s return from prison, voting will take place in all seven seats in Delhi today. Ten seats in Haryana, eight in Bihar, eight in West Bengal, six in Odisha, four in Jharkhand and 14 in Uttar Pradesh will also be voting. The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will also conclude its election schedule with voting in five remaining seats today (voting in Anantana Rajouri has been moved from the third phase to the sixth phase). In the sixth phase, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is contesting the maximum number of seats with 54 candidates, followed by the BJP with 51 candidates, the Bengal-based Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist Party) with 27 candidates and the Indian National Congress with 25 candidates.
Overview of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections: In 2019, the opposition Indian Union and the ruling NDA won 5 and 45 of these 58 seats, respectively. The BJP alone won 40 of these constituencies. In terms of vote share, the NDA parties won 51.36% of the votes, compared to 28.66% for the Indian Union. The Indian National Congress did not win any of these seats, but the Trinamool Congress (TMC), National Congress (NC) and Samajwadi Party (SP), which are now part of the Indian Union, were among the winners, apart from the independents BSP and Biju Janata Dal (BJD).
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