BJP’s candidate from Bhopal, terror-accused Pragya Thakur has extended her lead to over 1 lakh votes. She is pitted against former chief minister and veteran politician of Congress Digvijaya Singh. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won all but two of the 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh in 2014. However, it lost the state …
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Jharkhand Lok Sabha election results 2019 live updates: Kirti Azad trailing by 117047 votes
Counting for 14 Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand is underway and early trends, depicting the likely winners and trailing candidates, have started coming in. The pace of declaration of results may be slower this time since the Election Commission will also tally the voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) slips with five EVMs per assembly segments. Lok …
‘Will Do Anything for Safety of Votes’: Kushwaha Tells Supporters to Pick Up Arms to Protect EVMs
Patna: Opposition RLSP chief and former Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha on Tuesday reacted angrily to reports of alleged tampering of EVMs by the ruling NDA, urging party workers and supporters to pick up arms for “protection” of votes. Rashtriya Lok Samata Party chief Kushwaha, who dumped the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance last year and joined …
Sikkim Lok Sabha Elections Results 2019 LIVE: SDF Overall Lead Down to 1,200 Votes as SKM Holds Lead in East Sikkim
Dek Bahadur Katwal of Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) has maintained his overall lead in the counting for Sikkim’s sole Lok Sabha seat. While the lead had extended to over 4,000 votes in the interim, Indra Hang Subba of Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) has seen the margins tighten over the past hour. This has been majorly …
Madras High Court Junks Plea for Recounting of Votes in Case of VVPAT-EVM Mismatch
Chennai The Madras High Court Wednesday refused to entertain a petition seeking recounting of votes if they do not tally with VVPAT slips and pulled up the petitioner for moving the plea at the eleventh hour. A vacation bench comprising Justice RMT Teekaa Raaman and Justice P D Audikesavalu asked why the petitioner did not …
Opposition Leaders Meet EC Ahead of Result Day, Demand VVPAT Verification Before Counting Votes
New Delhi: Leaders of as many as 22 opposition parties met the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday and demanded verification of VVPAT slips of randomly selected polling stations before the counting of votes polled in the just-concluded Lok Sabha election begins on May 23. They also demanded that if any discrepancy is found during VVPAT …
Counting Day: How Will Votes be Counted ?
May 22, 2019 10:50 PM IST India India Did you know that there are 14 tables in every counting room where the fate of political candidates are decided ? Did you know that matching EVM with VVPAT slips consume an hour of time per polling station? If no, then read on. News18 dissects the entire …
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Counting of votes begins in Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura
The counting for two Lok Sabha seats in Arunachal Pradesh, two in Manipur, two in Meghalaya, one in Mizoram, one in Nagaland, one in Sikkim and two in Tripura started at 8 AM on Thursday. A total of 12 candidates are in the fray from two parliamentary seats of Arunachal Pradesh. Arunachal West is one of …
Setback for Oppn Day Before Election Results as Poll Panel Refuses Change in Process of Counting Votes
New Delhi: In a major setback to the Opposition just a day before results of the Lok Sabha elections are announced, the Election Commission has turned down their demand to tally the VVPAT (Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail) slips before the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). A delegation comprising representatives of opposition parties had asked the …
Uttar Pradesh Election Result 2019: Rahul Gandhi Trailing by 8,000 Votes in Amethi as BJP Registers Lead in Over 50 Seats
Early trends of counting suggest that Congress President Rahul Gandhi is trailing to BJP’s Smriti Irani from the grand old party’s bastion in Amethi by more than 8,000 votes. Amethi is a stronghold for Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who has been elected to Parliament from the seat since 2004. However, in 2014 BJP leader and …
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