Counting of votes in 542 Lok Sabha seats is underway. As per latest trends BJP appears to set for a come back with a lead of 294 followed by Congress 50.
NDA is leading in 344 , UPA 88 and others __110 _. BJP alone is leading in _294_ seats and Congress 50. DMK 23, JDU 16, Shiv Sena 20, YSR Congress 24, TRS 8, BSP 12, SP 8 , Trinamool Congress 23, Biju Janata Dal 14 and others 5.
Prominent candidates who are leading include Senior BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Party Chief Amit Shah, Union Ministers Smriti Irani and Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadhkari, Hansraj Ahir, Poonam Mahajan and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
While, Prime Minister and Senior BJP leader Narendra Modi is leading in Varanasi after first round of counting, Party Chief Amit Shah is ahead in Gandhinagar , Gujarat, Rajnath Singh in Lucknow, Smriti Irani in Amethi, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi in Raebareli, Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad in Kerala and Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram.
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Congress candidate Ashok Chavhan is trailing in Nanded and party candidate Shailja Kumari in Ambala seat in Haryana.
In Chandigarh, Kirron Kher of BJP is leading against Pawan Kumar Bansal of Congress. In Punjab, BJP’s Sunny Deol is leading from Gurdaspur parliamentary constituency, Shiroman Akali Dal (SAD) Sukhbir Singh Badal in Firozpur and Sitting MP and AAP candidate Bhangwant Mann in Sangrur.
In Uttar Pradesh, Union Ministers Sanjeev Kumar Balyan is leading in Muzaffar Nagar, V K Singh in Ghaziabad, Mahesh Sharma in Gautam Buddha Nagar, Santosh Kumar Gangwar in Bareilly, Manoj Sinha in Ghazipur, Anupriya Patel in Mirzapur, Niranjan Jyoti in Fatehpur, Maneka Gandhi in Sultanpur, Party leader Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi in Kanpur, State Cabinet Minister Reeta Bahuguna Joshi in Allahabad, Feroze Varun Gandhi in Pilibhit, Film Actor Hema Malini in Mathura and Jagdambika Pal in Dumaria Ganj. The State Congress Chief Raj Babbar is ahead in Fatehpur Sikri, Senior Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav in Mainpuri, Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav in Azam Garh and Dimple Yadav in Kannauj. Party candidate Poonam Sinha is trailing in Lucknow.
In Uttarakhand, BJP is leading in all the five seats. They include Union Minister Ajay Tamta, State BJP Chief Ajay Bhatt, Udham Singh Nagar and Ramesh Pokhrial Nishank.
In Bihar, BJP and JDU are leading in 16 seats each, Lok Janshakti Party in 6 and RJD in 2. Prominent among them are Union Ministers R.K. Singh, Giriraj Singh, Radha Mohan Singh, Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Ravi Shankar Prasad. In Jamui constituency, Lok Jan Shakti Party candidate Chirag Kumar Paswan son of Ram Vilas Paswan is leading. In Patliputra constituency, Misha Bharti, RJD candidate and daughter of Laloo Prasad Yadav, has taken a modest lead over her nearest BJP rival Ram Kripal Yadav.
In Jharkhand, Prominent leading candidates include Union Ministers Jayant Sinha, Pashupati Nath Singh and Sunil Soren of BJP. Former Jharkhand Chief Minister and JMM chief Shibu Soren was trailing.
In Gujarat, BJP is leading in all the 26 seats in the state as per the available trends. The party is also leading in all the 7 Lok Sabha seats in Delhi. Prominent among them are former cricketer Gautam Gambhir is leading in East Delhi, State BJP President Manoj Tewari in North East Delhi, Union Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan in Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seats.
In Goa, BJP candidate and Union Minister Shripad Naik is leading in the North Goa and Congress leader Francisco Sardinha in South Goa constituency.
In West Bengal, trends are available from all the 42 constituencies. All India Trinamool Congress is leading in 24, BJP in 17 and Congress in one. Prominent leading candidates are Union Ministers Babul Supriyo Baral in Asansol and S.S. Ahluwalia in Burdwan-Durgapur and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of Congress Baharampur. Trinamool leaders who are marching ahead include Satabdi Ray, Saugata Ray and Sudeep Bandopadhyay. In Midnipur constituency, State BJP chief Dilip Ghosh has taken a marginal lead over Manas Ranjan Bhunia of All India Trinamool Congress candidate.
In Odisha, Biju Janata Dal is leading in 14 and BJP in seven. In Puri, there is a neck and neck fight between BJP’s national spokesperson Dr. Sambit Patra and Pinaki Mishra of Biju Janata Dal. In Kalahandi constituency, State BJP President Basanta Kumar Panda has increased his lead over Bhakta Charan Das of Congress.
After first round of counting from Hamir Pur Parliamentary constituency in Himachal Pradesh BJP’s Anurag Thakur is leading.
In Sikkim, Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) and Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) are neck and neck. In Nagaland also it is a close contest between Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party and Indian National Congress.
In Meghalaya, as per the latest trends, the National People’s Party, NPP’s Agatha Sangma is leading over her Congres rival Mukul Sangma in Tura.
In Tripura, BJP has taken a lead in both Tripura East and Tripura West constituencies.
In Jammu & Kashmir, National Conference leader Farooq Abdulla is leading in Srinagar and BJP candidates Dr. Jitendra Singh in Udhampur and Jugal Kishore in Jammu.
In Andra Pradesh, out of 25 parliamentary seats, YSR Congress is ahead at 24 and Telgu Desam Party one.
In Telangana, TRS is leading at Karimnagar, Mahabubabad, Malkajgiri, Nagarkurnool, Nalgonda, Warangal, Zahirabad and Medak while BJP is ahead at Adilabad.
In Chhattisgarh, Vijay Bhagel of BJP in Durg constituency and Jyotsna Charandas Mahant of Congress in Korba constituency are leading.
In Madhya Pradesh, BJP leaders Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur is leading in Bhopal and Nandkumar Singh Chouhan in Khandwa constituency.
In Andaman & Nicobar islands BJP is leading in the lone seat.
In Kerala, UDF led by Congress is leading in all the 19 seats followed by LDF one. In Ernakulm Union Minister K J Alphonse is trailing. In Pathanamthitta which was another major point of attention due to sabarimala, UDFs Anto Antony is leading by 18000 votes.
In Tamil Nadu, the UPA comprising the DMK, Congress and the Left are having a phenomenal lead whereas in the Assembly bye-polls, the ruling AIADMK and main opposition DMK are racing neck and neck. The UPA is leading in 36 out of 38 seats while AIADMK and the PMK of the NDA are leading in one seat each. Notable among the candidates who are leading include Ms Kanimozhi of DMK, state BJP President Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan, Former Union Ministers from the DMK, TR Baalu, Dayanidhi Maran, A Raja and SS Palanimanickam. Union Minister and BJP candidate in Kanyakumari seat Mr Pon Radhakrishnan is trailing. Former Union Minister and PMK candidate in Dharmapuri Dr Anbumani Ramadoss is leading against his DMK opponent.
In Karnataka, BJP is leading at Bangalore North, Bangalore Central, Bangalore South, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamarajanagar, Chikballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Haveri, Uttara Kannada and Koppal. JD(S) is leading at Hassan and Tumkur. Congress is leading in Puducherry.
Out of the total 543 Parliamentary seats, elections were held in 542 constituencies. Over eight thousand candidates are in the fray. The elections to the Vellore constituency in Tamil Nadu was cancelled on the grounds of excessive use of money power.
The results are expected by late evening due to tallying of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail slips, VVPAT with the Electronic Voting Machines. This is the first time that in General Elections results of voting machines will be matched with slips generated by paper trail machines.
The exercise is taking place in five polling stations selected randomly per Assembly segment.
Trends are also available for assembly elections in 4 states of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh and by polls in Tamil Nadu.
In Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress is leading in 150 seats followed by TDP in 23 and Jansena Party and Independent in 1 each. Chief Minister Chandra Babu Naidu leading in Kuppam while his son Nara Lokesh is trailing in Magalagiri. YSR Congress President Jagan Mohan Reddy has established a lead in Pulivendla.
In Arunachal Pradesh, BJP is ahead in 17 constituencies and National People’s Party, JD(U) and Independent one each.
In Odisha, BJD is leading in 98 seats followed by BJP in 30, Congress in 14 and CPI(M) and Independent in one each. Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik is ahead in Bijepur.
Sikkim Krantikari Morcha, is leading in 7 seats while SDF in two in State Assembly elections. Chief Minister Pawan Chamling is leading in Poklok-Kamrang.
In Tamil Nadu Assembly by-polls, DMK is ahead in 11 while AIADMK in 10 seats.
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