- Polling for the third phase of the 17th Lok Sabha elections has concluded. The total voter turnout of 13 states and 2 union territories which went to polls today is recorded at 65.27%.
LS polls: 3rd phase concludes, total voter turnout is 65.27%
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2019-04-23 20:28:07
Third phase polling concludes
2019-04-23 17:46:32
West Bengal: Total voter turnout in West Bengal till 05:00 PM is 78.9%.
2019-04-23 17:43:30
Kerala: Total voter turnout in Kerala till 05:30 PM is 70%.
2019-04-23 17:16:31
Assam: EX-PM Dr Manmohan Singh cast his vote in Guwahati's Sarumutoria.
2019-04-23 17:12:32
Karnataka: Total voter turnout in Karnataka till 5 PM is 57.84%.
2019-04-23 17:10:08
Kerala: Total voter turnout in Kerala till 5 PM is 65%.
2019-04-23 15:22:55
Assam: With the rise in the number of cases of EVM malfunctioning at polling booths, former Assam DGP Hare Krishna Deka has alleged that his vote got recorded for another party and not the one for which he voted. He cast his vote from polling station number 155 in Guwahati's Lachit Nagar. He went to the election officials to file his complaint but was warned for punishment in case he fails to justify his claim.
2019-04-23 15:15:04
West Bengal:Man standing in a queue to vote killed in clashes between Congress and TMC workers in Baligram, Murshidabad.
2019-04-23 15:13:30
Panic gripped the locals after unidentified miscreants hurled bombs outside the booth no 47 and 48 at Rani nagar in Murshidabad. The polling booth has been shut down by the authorities of the area. Police already reached to the spot but no one arrested so far.
2019-04-23 15:08:38
Assam: Former Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh leaves after casting his vote at a polling booth in Dispur.
2019-04-23 14:39:32
Jammu & Kashmir: PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti casts her vote at polling booth number-37D in Bijbehara area of Anantnag district.
2019-04-23 14:32:53
Estimated voter turnout till now for the 3rd phase of the Lok Sabha Elections 2019 is37.89%. Voting for 116 parliamentary constituencies across 13 states and 2 union territories is being held today.
2019-04-23 14:32:25
Gujarat:Finance Minister & BJP leader Arun Jaitley casts his vote at a polling booth in Ahmedabad.
2019-04-23 13:37:11
Delhi:Congress candidates, Sheila Dikshit from North East Delhi & Ajay Maken from New Delhi parliamentary constituency, file nomination.
2019-04-23 13:29:37
Gujarat:Veteran BJP leader LK Advani casts his vote at a polling booth at Shahpur Hindi School in Ahmedabad.
2019-04-23 13:27:57
Kerala: A snake was found at a polling booth in Kannur's Kandakai. Polling resumed after the snake was caught.
2019-04-23 12:40:37
Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel after casting his vote at polling booth number 55 in Durg in the 3rd phase of polling of Lok Sabha Elections2019: "We have said what we had to say in favour of the party and our candidates, now voters will decide. They are the real judge".
2019-04-23 12:39:59
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and wife Sulakshana Sawant cast their votes at polling booth no. 47 in Sankhali Lok Sabha constituency.
2019-04-23 12:18:56
Singer Hans Raj Hans to contest from North West Delhi constituency on a BJP ticket.
2019-04-23 12:18:26
Sunny Deol after joining BJP: "The way my Papa worked with and supported Atal ji, I am here today to work with and support Modi ji. My work will do the talking".
2019-04-23 12:07:51
Delhi:Actor Sunny Deol joins Bharatiya Janata Party in presence of Union Ministers Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman.
2019-04-23 12:06:48
Boxer Vijender Singh to file his nomination from South Delhi seat as Congress candidate shortly: "I'm happy that Congress has given me a responsibility to serve the people. As a son of a driver,I understand the plight of the poor. I'll reach out to ppl to understand their problems".
2019-04-23 12:06:24
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Karnataka: Senior Congress leader and Gulbarga candidate Mallikarjun Kharge cast his vote at polling booth number 119 in Gulabarga.
2019-04-23 11:58:26
Delhi: Actor Sunny Deol arrives at Bharatiya Janata Party office, he will join the party shortly.
2019-04-23 11:55:39
Wayanad:People queue up at a polling booth in Sugandhagiri to cast their vote in the third phase of polling of Lok Sabha elections.
2019-04-23 11:52:53
Delhi: Actor Sunny Deol to join Bharatiya Janata Party shortly
2019-04-23 11:45:30
Kerala:Veteran actors Mammootty and Mohanlal cast their votes in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram respectively.
2019-04-23 11:40:16
Viramgam: Congress leader Hardik Patel casts his vote at booth number 252/355 in Surendranagar constituency.
2019-04-23 11:26:56
BJP MP candidate from East Delhi, Gautam Gambhir holds roadshow ahead of filling his nomination, says, "I really want to contribute something to the country & whatever our PM has done in the last 5 years, I want to take that legacy forward."
2019-04-23 11:24:35
Social activist Anna Hazare after casting his vote in Ralegan Siddhi, Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra.
2019-04-23 10:53:36
Karnataka: Priyank Kharge and his wife Shruthi Kharge cast their votes at polling station number 26, in Gundagurti village, in Kalaburagi Lok Sabha constituency.
2019-04-23 10:47:07
Thushar Vellappally, an NDA candidate from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, demands re-polling after EVM malfunction.
2019-04-23 10:30:23
Goa Chief Electoral Officer: Entire set of EVMs has been replaced for AC 34, PS No 31 as per report from DEO South Goa.
2019-04-23 10:28:47
West Bengal:Three TMC workers injured after a crude bomb was hurled at them. The incident took place in Domkal municipality in Murshidabad.
2019-04-23 10:26:51
Gujarat:Heeraben Modi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother casts her vote at a polling station in Raisan, Ahmedabad.
2019-04-23 10:10:27
UP: Younger brother of Mulayam Singh Yadav, Abhay Singh Yadav after casting his vote at a polling booth in Saifai, Mainpuri.
2019-04-23 09:54:46
Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik casts his vote at a polling booth in Bhubaneswar.
2019-04-23 09:36:02
Parkash Singh Badal, SAD Patron: Sukhbir Singh Badal will contest from Ferozepur and Harsimrat Kaur Badal will contest from Bathinda.
2019-04-23 09:30:14
Gujarat: BJP President Amit Shah and his wife Sonal Shah cast their votes at a polling booth in Naranpura Sub-Zonal office in Ahmedabad.
2019-04-23 09:28:05
Odisha: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan casts his vote at a polling booth in Talcher.
2019-04-23 09:22:22
West Bengal: Man carries his 87-year mother to a polling booth in Kotwali Primary Junior Basic School, in Malda.
2019-04-23 09:16:29
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and wife Anjali cast their vote at a polling booth in Anil Gyan Mandir school in Rajkot.
2019-04-23 09:12:32
Odisha: Former IAS officer and BJP MP candidate from Bhubaneswar, Aparajita Sarangi casts her vote at polling booth in Government Primary School, IRC village, Bhubaneswar. She is up against former IPS officer and BJD candidate Arup Patnaik.
2019-04-23 09:07:33
Gujarat: PM Narendra Modi casts his vote at a polling booth in Ranip, Ahmedabad.
2019-04-23 08:28:48
2019-04-23 08:28:32
Gujarat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives to cast his vote at polling booth in Nishan Higher Secondary School in Ranip, Ahmedabad. BJP President Amit Shah also present.
2019-04-23 08:22:33
Maharashtra: Nationalist Congress Party's Supriya Sule along with her family casts her vote a polling station in Baramati. She is sitting MP and NCP MP candidate from Baramati.
2019-04-23 08:20:04
Maharashtra: A senior citizen couple, 93-year-old Prabhakar Bhide and 88-year-old Sushila Bhide cast their votes at a polling booth in Pune's Mayur colony.
2019-04-23 08:15:24
Gujarat:BJP President and party's candidate from Gandhinagar Parliamentary constituency Amit Shah, near the polling booth at Nishan Higher Secondary School in Ranip, Ahmedabad. PM Narendra Modi will cast his vote at the polling booth, shortly.
2019-04-23 08:09:51
Kerala:CM P. Vijayan queues up to casts his vote at polling booth in RC Amala Basic UP School in Pinarayi in Kannur district.
2019-04-23 08:02:58
Bihar: Visuals from polling booth number 151 in Supaul parliamentary constituency where voting is yet to begin, currently mock poll is underway at the polling booth after a faulty EVM was replaced.
2019-04-23 07:59:22
Gujarat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his mother at her residence in Gandhinagar today. He will cast his vote in Ahmedabad, shortly.
2019-04-23 07:54:08
Karnataka: BJP MP candidate from Shimoga BY Raghvendra casts his vote at a polling booth in Shikaripura, in the third phase of general elections.
2019-04-23 07:47:57
Gujarat:Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at his mother's residence in Gandhinagar. He will cast his vote in Ahmedabad, shortly.
2019-04-23 07:41:22
West Bengal:Voters queue outside polling booth in Kotwali Junior Basic School, in Malda. 5 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state are voting in the third phase of general elections today.
2019-04-23 07:32:23
Assam: People queue up outside station number 224 in Dhubri to cast their votes. Four parliamentary constituencies of the state are undergoing polling today.
2019-04-23 07:18:19
Third phase polling concludes
Voting begins for third phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2019 in 116 constituencies across 13 States & 2 Union Territories.
2019-04-23 06:43:35
Third phase polling concludes
New Delhi: Polling began in 13 states and two Union Territories on Tuesday in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections.
In all, 117 seats are going to the polls in the third phase of the seven-phased election.
Voting will be completed in all seats of Gujarat, Kerala, Goa, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Karnataka, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu with the third phase polls.
The Presidents of the two main political parties are in the fray in the third phase with BJP chief Amit Shah making his Lok Sabha election debut from Gandhinagar and Congress President Rahul Gandhi contesting from Wayanad.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will aim to defend the 62 of the 117 third phase seats it won in 2014 and its performance in this phase will be crucial in deciding its political fortunes.
The Congress had won 16 seats, while the remaining seats were divided between BJD (6), CPI-M (7), NCP (4), Samajwadi Party (3), Shiv Sena (2), RJD (2), AIUDF (2), IUML (2), LJP (1), PDP (1), RSP (1), Kerala Congress-M (1), CPI (1), Swabhimani Paksha (1) and Trinamool Congress (1). Three seats were won by Independent candidates.
This time the BJP will be tested in its bastion Gujarat -- where polling will be held for all the 26 Lok Sabha seats -- apart from Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh, where the party had done well in 2014.
In 2014, the BJP won all the 26 seats in Gujarat, 11 of 14 in Karnataka, 8 of 10 in Uttar Pradesh, 6 of 7 in Chhattisgarh, 6 of 14 in Maharashtra, both the seats in Goa and one seat each in Assam, Bihar, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
Gujarat being the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP would again look for a clean sweep in the state. However, the Congress, which gave a tough fight to the BJP in the Assembly polls held in 2017, is hoping to win 10 to 15 seats this time.
The three young Gujarat leaders -- Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor and Jignesh Mewani -- whose positions had helped the Congress build a narrative against the BJP during the Assembly elections, are not in the fray for the Lok Sabha polls.
Patidar agitation leader Patel, who joined the Congress last month, cannot contest due to his conviction in a rioting case, while Thakor quit the Congress earlier this month.
In Karnataka, the BJP is considered to have a strong footing in many of the 14 seats going to the polls on Tuesday. However, the saffron party faces tough challenge from the Congress-JD-S combine.
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Moreover, its vote shares too dipped in the Assembly polls held in Karnataka last year as compared to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
In the Assembly elections, the BJP had polled lesser votes than the Congress but got more seats.
The BJP faces a strong challenge in Uttar Pradesh, as the third phase of Lok Sabha elections will be fought in the "Yadav belt".
The Samajwadi Party (SP) strongholds of Mainpuri, Badaun and Sambhal will go to the polls on Tuesday and the party's prospects have received a considerabe boost following its alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). The Congress too is also likely to cut into BJP votes.
Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) President Shivpal Singh Yadav, who is contesting from Firozabad against his nephew and SP candidate Akshay Yadav, has been cautioning the people against the SP-BSP combine.
SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav is contesting from Mainpuri. The joint rally held in the constituency on Friday, in which BSP supremo Mayawati, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav shared the stage, is likely to boost the prospects of the SP candidates.
In Maharashtra, the third phase of polling will be held in some NCP strongholds, including Baramati, Madha, Kolahpur and Satara. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule is contesting from the party's bastion in Baramati.
The Congress and the NCP have dominated the local bodies and cooperatives in the sugar belt of the state, which has of late been challenged by the BJP-Shiv Sena combine. The Lok Sabha results will show if the NCP is able to regain its earlier dominance in the region.
In Chhattisgarh, the BJP has sought to beat the anti-incumbency wave against its sitting MPs by replacing all of them. Here the saffron party faces a renewed challenge from the Congress, which returned to power in the state in 2018 after 15 years.
The Congress is focusing more on local issues, telling the voters that its government has quickly delivered on its promises.
Of the five seats in Bihar, the BJP had won only one in 2014 and it is again contesting one seat this time.
Janata Dal (United), the BJP's ally in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), is contesting three seats while the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) is contesting one seat.
As part of the grand alliance, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is contesting three seats, while the Congress and the Vikasheel Insaan Party (VIP) are contesting one seat each.
The key contest is in Madhepura, where sitting MP Pappu Yadav, who had won on a RJD ticket in 2014, is contesting for the Jan Adhikar Party, a political outfit floated by him in 2015. He is up against RJD candidate Sharad Yadav.
In Odisha, the third phase of elections will witness a battle between several political heavyweights as well as former bureaucrats.
Puri will witness a triangular fight between spokespersons of three major political parties, as two-time sitting MP and BJD spokesman Pinaki Mishra will cross swords with BJP's national spokesperson Sambit Patra and state Congress media cell Chairman Satya Prakash Nayak. Dhenkanal is also expected to witness a triangular fight.
In the four constituencies of lower Assam that will go to the polls on Tuesday, both the Congress and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) are seeking to gain votes by targeting the BJP over its stance in support of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.
The AIUDF has accused the Congress of not adhering to "gentleman's agreement" between the two parties under which the regional party did not put up candidates on 11 seats and was expecting the Congress to field "weak candidates".
Congress, however, has said that it had no such arrangement.
The Congress will look to swell its tally in Kerala with Rahul Gandhi in the fray from Wayanad. The party had won 8 of the 20 seats in 2014 while a few more were won by its allies. The BJP too is seeing a realistic chance to win four seats in the southern state.
In West Bengal where it faces a multi-cornered challenge from the Trinamool Congress, the BJP and the CPI-M, the Congress will seek to at least retain the three seats it won in 2014.
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2019-04-23 03:00:57
Third phase polling concludes
New Delhi: Polling began in 13 states and two Union Territories on Tuesday in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections.
In all, 117 seats are going to the polls in the third phase of the seven-phased election.
Voting will be completed in all seats of Gujarat, Kerala, Goa, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Karnataka, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu with the third phase polls.
The Presidents of the two main political parties are in the fray in the third phase with BJP chief Amit Shah making his Lok Sabha election debut from Gandhinagar and Congress President Rahul Gandhi contesting from Wayanad.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will aim to defend the 62 of the 117 third phase seats it won in 2014 and its performance in this phase will be crucial in deciding its political fortunes.
The Congress had won 16 seats, while the remaining seats were divided between BJD (6), CPI-M (7), NCP (4), Samajwadi Party (3), Shiv Sena (2), RJD (2), AIUDF (2), IUML (2), LJP (1), PDP (1), RSP (1), Kerala Congress-M (1), CPI (1), Swabhimani Paksha (1) and Trinamool Congress (1). Three seats were won by Independent candidates.
This time the BJP will be tested in its bastion Gujarat -- where polling will be held for all the 26 Lok Sabha seats -- apart from Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh, where the party had done well in 2014.
In 2014, the BJP won all the 26 seats in Gujarat, 11 of 14 in Karnataka, 8 of 10 in Uttar Pradesh, 6 of 7 in Chhattisgarh, 6 of 14 in Maharashtra, both the seats in Goa and one seat each in Assam, Bihar, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
Gujarat being the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP would again look for a clean sweep in the state. However, the Congress, which gave a tough fight to the BJP in the Assembly polls held in 2017, is hoping to win 10 to 15 seats this time.
The three young Gujarat leaders -- Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor and Jignesh Mewani -- whose positions had helped the Congress build a narrative against the BJP during the Assembly elections, are not in the fray for the Lok Sabha polls.
Patidar agitation leader Patel, who joined the Congress last month, cannot contest due to his conviction in a rioting case, while Thakor quit the Congress earlier this month.
In Karnataka, the BJP is considered to have a strong footing in many of the 14 seats going to the polls on Tuesday. However, the saffron party faces tough challenge from the Congress-JD-S combine.
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Moreover, its vote shares too dipped in the Assembly polls held in Karnataka last year as compared to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
In the Assembly elections, the BJP had polled lesser votes than the Congress but got more seats.
The BJP faces a strong challenge in Uttar Pradesh, as the third phase of Lok Sabha elections will be fought in the "Yadav belt".
The Samajwadi Party (SP) strongholds of Mainpuri, Badaun and Sambhal will go to the polls on Tuesday and the party's prospects have received a considerabe boost following its alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). The Congress too is also likely to cut into BJP votes.
Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) President Shivpal Singh Yadav, who is contesting from Firozabad against his nephew and SP candidate Akshay Yadav, has been cautioning the people against the SP-BSP combine.
SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav is contesting from Mainpuri. The joint rally held in the constituency on Friday, in which BSP supremo Mayawati, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav shared the stage, is likely to boost the prospects of the SP candidates.
In Maharashtra, the third phase of polling will be held in some NCP strongholds, including Baramati, Madha, Kolahpur and Satara. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule is contesting from the party's bastion in Baramati.
The Congress and the NCP have dominated the local bodies and cooperatives in the sugar belt of the state, which has of late been challenged by the BJP-Shiv Sena combine. The Lok Sabha results will show if the NCP is able to regain its earlier dominance in the region.
In Chhattisgarh, the BJP has sought to beat the anti-incumbency wave against its sitting MPs by replacing all of them. Here the saffron party faces a renewed challenge from the Congress, which returned to power in the state in 2018 after 15 years.
The Congress is focusing more on local issues, telling the voters that its government has quickly delivered on its promises.
Of the five seats in Bihar, the BJP had won only one in 2014 and it is again contesting one seat this time.
Janata Dal (United), the BJP's ally in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), is contesting three seats while the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) is contesting one seat.
As part of the grand alliance, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is contesting three seats, while the Congress and the Vikasheel Insaan Party (VIP) are contesting one seat each.
The key contest is in Madhepura, where sitting MP Pappu Yadav, who had won on a RJD ticket in 2014, is contesting for the Jan Adhikar Party, a political outfit floated by him in 2015. He is up against RJD candidate Sharad Yadav.
In Odisha, the third phase of elections will witness a battle between several political heavyweights as well as former bureaucrats.
Puri will witness a triangular fight between spokespersons of three major political parties, as two-time sitting MP and BJD spokesman Pinaki Mishra will cross swords with BJP's national spokesperson Sambit Patra and state Congress media cell Chairman Satya Prakash Nayak. Dhenkanal is also expected to witness a triangular fight.
In the four constituencies of lower Assam that will go to the polls on Tuesday, both the Congress and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) are seeking to gain votes by targeting the BJP over its stance in support of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.
The AIUDF has accused the Congress of not adhering to "gentleman's agreement" between the two parties under which the regional party did not put up candidates on 11 seats and was expecting the Congress to field "weak candidates".
Congress, however, has said that it had no such arrangement.
The Congress will look to swell its tally in Kerala with Rahul Gandhi in the fray from Wayanad. The party had won 8 of the 20 seats in 2014 while a few more were won by its allies. The BJP too is seeing a realistic chance to win four seats in the southern state.
In West Bengal where it faces a multi-cornered challenge from the Trinamool Congress, the BJP and the CPI-M, the Congress will seek to at least retain the three seats it won in 2014.
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Last Updated : Apr 23, 2019, 8:37 PM IST