New Delhi: Voting for the first phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections began, on Thursday. Voting will take place in 91 Lok Sabha seats in 20 states and Union territories.
LIVE Updates:
- 01: 16 pm- Surrendered naxals providing security in polling booths of Chhattisgarh's Sukma
- 01: 14 pm- Home guard from UP dies during election duty in Uttarakahand
- 01: 14 pm- Home guard from UP dies during election duty in Uttarakahand
Voter turnout till 1 pm
- 33.5 % voter turnout recorded in Bihar. Aurangabad- 34.6 %, Gaya- 33 %, Nawada- 37 %, Jamui- 29 %Senior citizens casting vote
- 12: 58 noon- Poonch (J&K) District Election Officer on Omar Abdullah tweets 'Congress button not working in Poonch polling stations'
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Congress symbol button not working in Poonch polling stations ||Mangnar ... https://t.co/g9f6q4Phw4 via @YouTube
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) April 11, 2019 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">Congress symbol button not working in Poonch polling stations ||Mangnar ... https://t.co/g9f6q4Phw4 via @YouTube
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) April 11, 2019Congress symbol button not working in Poonch polling stations ||Mangnar ... https://t.co/g9f6q4Phw4 via @YouTube
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) April 11, 2019
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- 12: 55 noon- Yog-Guru Ramdev casts his vote at a polling station in Haridwar, Uttarakhand
- 12: 40 am- Ruckus in Baghpat over cross voting allegations
- 12: 19 noon- YSRCP activists attack Andhra Pradesh speaker by turning off his shirt
- 12: 16 noon- Andhra Pradesh polling turns violent. TDP leader, Siddha Bhaskar Reddy severely injured in an attack by YSRCP leader in Anantapur's Tadipatri
- 12: 13 noon: IED blast by Naxals near a polling booth in Etapalli in Gadchiroli district. No injuries reportedSpot visual
Voter turnout till 12 noon:
- 24.57 % voter turnout recorded in Bihar. Aurangabad- 25 %, Gaya- 23 %, Nawada- 27 %, Jamui- 23 %
- 11: 58 am- Telangana's Khammam Congress candidate Renuka Choudhary casts her vote Says 'I am hopeful that we will be able to win this race, I am very optimistic'
- 11: 57 am- Worlds smallest girl Jyoti Amge cast her vote in Maharashtra's Nagpur
- 11: 40 am- Working President of Telangana Rashtra Samithi, KT Rama Rao casts his vote at a polling booth in Hyderabad
- 11: 27 am- Telangana chief minister KCR cast vote in Siddipet district
- 11: 22 am- 24 % of voter turnout in UP
- 11: 20 am- Bihar PM Modi addresses rally in Bhagalpur, Bihar
- 11. 18 am- Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu wirtes to CEC:
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N Chandrababu Naidu in letter to CEC: Likely that many voters who returned may not come back for voting even if polling is resumed after replacement / repair of existing EVMs.Therefore repolling needed in all polling stations where polling had not commenced upto 9.30am (file pic) pic.twitter.com/tfEmyIQ8YE
— ANI (@ANI) April 11, 2019 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">N Chandrababu Naidu in letter to CEC: Likely that many voters who returned may not come back for voting even if polling is resumed after replacement / repair of existing EVMs.Therefore repolling needed in all polling stations where polling had not commenced upto 9.30am (file pic) pic.twitter.com/tfEmyIQ8YE
— ANI (@ANI) April 11, 2019N Chandrababu Naidu in letter to CEC: Likely that many voters who returned may not come back for voting even if polling is resumed after replacement / repair of existing EVMs.Therefore repolling needed in all polling stations where polling had not commenced upto 9.30am (file pic) pic.twitter.com/tfEmyIQ8YE
— ANI (@ANI) April 11, 2019
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- 11: 13 am- Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal casts his vote at a polling station in Dibrugarh
Voter turnout till 11 am:
- 22 % voting in four parliamentary constituency of Odisha
- 13.7 % voter turnout in 7 parliamentary constituency of Maharashtra's Vidharba
- 25 % voting in Assam
- 26.5% voter turnout in Tripura (1 seat)
- 24.66% voting recorded in Jammu & Baramulla parliamentary constituencies
- 21.1 % voter turnout in Chhattisgarh's Bastar
- 38.08% voting recorded in West Bengal (2 seats)
- 23.78% voting recorded in Uttarakhand
- 23.10% voter turnout in Lakshadweep
- 22.84 % voting percentage in Telangana
- 20.31 % voter turnout recorded in Bihar. Aurangabad- 17.1 %, Gaya- 21 %, Nawada- 22 %, Jamui- 21 %
- 10: 58 am- Kashmiri Pandits in Udhampur cast their votes for Jammu's Baramulla parliamentary constituency at a special polling station set-up at Municipal Town Hall. A voter says, "We are migrants here. It's our duty to caste vote. We want to return to Baramulla"
- 10:55 am- Congress candidate from Bastar, Deepak Baij cast vote in Chitrakoot
- 10: 40 am- Villagers in Naxal affected Dantewada turnout in large numbers to cast their votes. On 9th April, BJP MLA Bheema Mandvi and four PSOs lost their lives in a naxal attack in Dantewada
- 10: 38 am- No single vote in a booth in Muzaffarnagar
- 10: 18am- Namo food packets found for polling staff in Noida
- 10: 17 am- Maharashtra Union minister Nitin Gadkari cast his vote at polling booth number 220 in Nagpur parliamentary constituency
- 10:00 am- Bihar voting percent: Aurangabad- 13.46 %, Gaya- 19 %, Nawada- 9 %, Jamui- 14 %
- 09: 55am- AIMIM Chief and Hyderabad MP candidate Asaduddin Owaisi casts his vote at a polling booth in the city. He is a three time sitting MP from the constituency
- 09:50 am- NRI from Australia cast vote in Ghaziabad
- 09: 46 am- No voters turned out for voting in 9 booths in Naxal affected Malkangiri district in Odisha
- 09: 30 am- Former Union minister Praful Patel cast his vote from Maharashtra's Bhandara
- 09: 13 am- Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat casts his vote at polling booth number 124 in Defence Colony in Dehradun
- 09: 02 am- A 92 year old voter DN Sanghani accompanied by his son and daughter in law cast his vote at a polling booth in Maharashtra's Gondia92 year old voter from Maharashtra
- 09: 01 am- Telangana Rashtra Samithi's K Kavitha casts her vote at a polling station in Pothangal in Nizamabad parliamentary constituency
Voter turnouts till 9 am:
- 9.83% voter turnout recorded in Lakshwadweep
- 18.12% voter turnout recorded in West Bengal, 17.5% in Mizoram, 10.2% in Chhattisgarh and 15.6% in Manipur
- Voter turnout recorded in Telangana is 10.6%, 5.83% in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 10.2% in Assam and 13.3% in Arunachal Pradesh
- Voter turnout in Saharanpur- 8%, Kairana-10%, Muzaffarnagar-10%, Meerut- 10%, Bijnor - 11%, Baghpat - 11%, Ghaziabad - 12% and Gautam Budh Nagar-12%
- 10.2 % voting in Bastar
- 9.5 % voting in Noida, 12 % in Ghaziabad
- 21% voter turnout recorded in Nagaland parliamentary constituency
- 09:00 am- Bihar voting percent: Aurangabad- 5.6 %, Gaya- 5 %, Nawada- 3 %, Jamui- 3 %. Total- 7.58 % voting
- 08: 50 am- Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh after casting his vote in Amaravati said, "It'll be a decisive win in Mangalgiri (assembly seat) and also across the state"
- 08: 47 am- Janasena MLA candidate Madhusudhan Gupta smashes an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) at a polling booth in Gooty in Anantapur district, alleging that EMV is not working. He has been arrested by police
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#WATCH Jana Sena MLA candidate Madhusudhan Gupta smashes an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) at a polling booth in Gooty, in Anantapur district. He has been arrested by police. #AndhraPradesh pic.twitter.com/VoAFNdA6Jo
— ANI (@ANI) April 11, 2019 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">#WATCH Jana Sena MLA candidate Madhusudhan Gupta smashes an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) at a polling booth in Gooty, in Anantapur district. He has been arrested by police. #AndhraPradesh pic.twitter.com/VoAFNdA6Jo
— ANI (@ANI) April 11, 2019#WATCH Jana Sena MLA candidate Madhusudhan Gupta smashes an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) at a polling booth in Gooty, in Anantapur district. He has been arrested by police. #AndhraPradesh pic.twitter.com/VoAFNdA6Jo
— ANI (@ANI) April 11, 2019
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- 08: 43 am- EVM not working in booth number 79 in Noida. People waiting in queue
- 08: 41 am- Voting stopped in one polling booth in Saharanpur as EVM is not working
- 08: 38 am- YSR Congress Party Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy after casting his votes in Kadapa, "I'm very confident, people are looking for a change, vote without fear"
- 08: 37 am- Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu cast his vote with his family in Undavalli
- 08: 31 am- Polling not yet started in booth number 322 in UP
- 08: 30 am- 3 EVMs not working in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur
- 08: 27 am- Minister Kawasi Lakhma cast his vote in Chhattisgarh's Sukhma
- 08: 25 am- EVM not working in booth number 151 in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad
- 08: 19 am- Former Uttarakhand CM Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank casts his vote at a polling booth in Dehradun
- 08: 16 am- TDP MP candidate from Vijaywada, Kesineni Srinivas castes his vote at a polling booth in St. Joseph Girl's High School, Gunadala in Vijaywada
- 08: 15 am- ITBP and CGP joint party came under a Naxal ambush while moving for a polling booth near Farasgaon in Narayanpur. ITBP jawans successfully broke the ambush and proceed for polling booth where polling has begun. No casualties reported
- 08: 11 am- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and his family after casttheir vote for Lok SabhElections 2019 in Amravati
- 08:08 am- RSS Bhaiyyaji Joshi cast his vote for the Nagpur parliamentary constituency
- 08:00 am- Baghpat (Uttar Pradesh): Flower petals being showered and dhol being played to welcome voters at polling booth number 126 in BarautFlower petals being showered to welcome voters
- 07:48 am- IED found near Aurangabad polling booth
- 07:15 am- RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat cast his vote for the Nagpur parliamentary constituency
- 07:05 am- Four armed Naxals apprehended in Bijapur in Chhattisgarh
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