Counting of votes for 542 LS seats, 4 state assemblies begins

Counting of votes for the 17th Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh is underway amidst tight security.

Trends are available for Lok Sabha elections from 505 constituencies out of 542.

NDA is leading in  28 , UPA  99  and others 88  . BJP alone is leading in 269 seats and Congress 51. DMK 21, JDU 15, Shiv Sena 18, Telugu Desam 2, YSR Congress 19, BSP 13,  SP 7 AND Trinamool Congress 20.  

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 and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

 

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading in Varanasi after the first round of counting, Party Chief Amit Shah is ahead in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, Rajnath Singh in Lucknow, Smriti Irani in Amethi and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi in Raebareli.

In Uttar Pradesh,  BJP is leading in 19, UPA in 2 and Mahagathbandhan 2 as per the latest report.

YSR Congress is ahead in nine seats and TDP in four.

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, CPIM leading at Vadakara, Kasaragod, Alappuzha and  Kozhikode. IUML is ahead at Malappuram and Ponnani. While, BJP is leading at Palakkad and Thiruvananthapuram and Congress is ahead at Idukki.  

In Tamil Nadu, DMK is leading at Erode, Cuddalore, Tenkasi and Tirunelveli. Congress is leading at Virudhunagar.

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.

In the Assembly elections, trends received from two seats in Andhra Pradesh show that YSR Congress is leading in Ongole and Kamlapuram  Seats.

In Arunachal Pradesh  Assembly elections,  BJP is leading in TWO seats.

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.

In Uttar Pradesh, counting of votes is taking place at 77 centres. Our Lucknow correspondent reports, All the strong room locks were opened in front of representatives of political parties or candidates and the observers of the Election Commission in every counting center. Special cabins have been formed for matching of VVPAT slips.

The three-tier security system at counting center is having Central Armed Police Forces securing the inner circle and PAC and State police in other layers.

The fate of many high profile leaders including Senior BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav, Party Patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and many presents and former Union Ministers is sealed in the EVMs.

In Madhya Pradesh, around 1,800 CCTV cameras have been installed at the 292 centres across 51 district headquarters and 15 thousand personnel deployed.  

Our correspondent reports that The political fate of 438 candidates including 38 women and one-third gender will be decided today. Congress and BJP are in direct fight in almost all the 29 seats in the state.

Prominent among them are BJP state resident Rakesh Singh from Jabalpur, Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar from Morena, ex-Union Minister and Congress nominee Kantilal Bhuria from Ratlam, Senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna and Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s son Nakul Nath from Chhindwada.

The Bhopal Lok Sabha seat is being watched keenly because of the contest between Congress veteran Digvijay Singh and Malegaon blast case accused Pragya Singh Thakur.

After the first round of counting from Hamir Pur Parliamentary constituency in Himachal Pradesh BJP's Anurag Thakur is leading.  

In Odisha, simultaneous counting of votes for the elections to 21 Lok Sabha and 146 Assembly seats are taking place at 63 centres in 22 districts. Our Correspondent reports that One-hundred 72 platoons of Special Armed Police and sixty-nine companies of Central Armed Police Forces have been deployed to avoid any untoward incidents during the process.

Around 6 thousand 7 hundred persons have been deployed for the counting in 152 halls across the State.

In Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections YSRCP is leading in 30 seats and TDP is leading SIX as per latest trends.

A 24-hour EVM Control Room has been set up at Nirvachan Sadan in New Delhi to monitor complaints related to polled EVMs. The Control Room contact number is 011-23052123.