Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: TN records 63.20% of polling as of 5 PM
Catch the live updates of polling being held in 102 constituencies across 21 states and Union Territories
People wait for cast his votes (Hemanathan M)
CHENNAI: The 2024 Lok Sabha polls will kick off Friday with polling for the first phase scheduled in 102 constituencies spread across 21 states and Union Territories, including 39 seats in Tamil Nadu and the lone Puducherry seat.
Approximately 6.23 crore voters in Tamil Nadu will vote across nearly 68,000 polling stations, deciding the fate of 950 candidates.
Voting will begin at 7 AM and end at 6 PM.
Among the prominent candidates in the fray in the first phase are Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Sarbananda Sonowal, Gaurav Gogoi of Congress and DMK's Kanimozhi. K Annamalai, who is steering the BJP campaign in Tamil Nadu, is also among the contestants.
Live Updates
- 19 April 2024 12:40 PM GMT
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: EVMs are being taken to the strongroom from the polling booths, where voting concluded at 5 pm.
- 19 April 2024 12:38 PM GMT
On the percentage of voting in Tamil Nadu in the first phase of elections, the state Chief Electoral Officer Satyabrata Sahoo says, "Our voting percentage by 5 PM is average 63.20% for the state. Highest in Dharmapuri parliamentary constituency, 67.52 and minimum, 57.04% in Chennai South."
#WATCH | Chennai: On the percentage of voting in Tamil Nadu in the first phase of elections, the state Chief Electoral Officer Satyabrata Sahoo says, "Our voting percentage by 5 PM is average 63.20% for the state. Highest in Dharmapuri parliamentary constituency, 67.52 and… pic.twitter.com/4CMyyCVIYc
— ANI (@ANI) April 19, 2024 - 19 April 2024 12:32 PM GMT
State BJP chief and Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency candidate K Annamalai says, "We saw complaints from a large number of voters on their names being missing from the voters' list. This happened in many places. We are demanding re-poll in places where the names of a large number of voters were missing. We have a doubt that there was some political interference because the names of a large number of BJP caders were missing from the voters list."
- 19 April 2024 12:14 PM GMT
Dharmapuri received the highest polling - 67.52% and Chennai South polled the lowest. It recorded 57.04%.
The polling percentage for the bypoll for Vilavancode constituency stood at 56.68% at 5 PM
- 19 April 2024 12:07 PM GMT
VIDEO | Lok Sabha Elections 2024: People of a village in Thanjavur of Tamil Nadu boycott elections over their demands for basic amenities. #LSPolls2024WithPTI #LokSabhaElections2024 pic.twitter.com/0ItimtoppU
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) April 19, 2024
