India General Election 2024 Live Updates: Phase 7 turnout crosses 58% at 5 pm; TMC, PDP skip INDIA bloc meet at Kharge’s residence

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 7 Polling Live Updates, Exit Poll Results Today: The phase with 57 seats across eight states, UTs is witnessing polling for several key constituencies, including Varanasi, which has in the last two elections, become Prime Minister Narendra Modi's bastion.

• By: Express Web Desk Written by Vibha B Madhava
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• New Delhi | Updated: June 1, 2024 05:49 PM IST

Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, CPI(M)'s Sitaram Yechury, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Sanjay Singh, CPI's D Raja at the INDIA bloc meeting. (PTI)

India General Elections Live, Exit Poll Results Today:  A voter turnout of 58.34 per cent was recorded till 5 pm in the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections across 57 parliamentary constituencies across eight states and Union Territories today. After the seven-phase elections draw to a close, all eyes will shift to the exit polls which will start emerging soon after the voting period officially ends till results are declared on June 4.

Senior INDIA bloc leaders met at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence to discuss the alliance’s strategy for counting of votes, which is scheduled for June 4. However, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) were conspicuous by their absence. Opposition leaders who attended the meeting included Sharad Pawar, Akhilesh Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav, Anil Desai, Sitaram Yechury, Arvind Kejriwal, Bhagwat Mann, Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha, Champai Soren, Kalpana Soren, T R Baalu, Farooq Abdullah, D Raja and Mukesh Sahani, news agency PTI reported. The Opposition alliance has unanimously decided to participate in exit poll debates, a day after the Congress declared that it would be boycotting them.

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Polling in the last six phases: The voter turnout for the last six phases of the Lok Sabha elections, as released by the Election Commission of India, stands at – 66.14 per cent for Phase 1, 66.71 per cent for Phase 2, 65.68 per cent for Phase 3, 69.16 per cent for Phase 4, 62.20 per cent for Phase 5 and 63.37 per cent for Phase 6.

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Lok Sabha final phase: 57 seats vote, BJP led Congress 25 to 8 in 2019

After almost 80 days of campaigning, voting in the Lok Sabha elections concludes on Saturday with 57 seats across eight states and Union Territories going to polls. This has been the second-longest parliamentary election since the first Lok Sabha election in 1951-’52.

After the polls close, all eyes will be on the exit polls and the results on June 4. By the end of Saturday, polling will be completed at one go in all 13 seats in Punjab and all four seats in Himachal Pradesh. The other states that will vote are Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal — where polling was held across all seven phases — and Jharkhand and Odisha, where Assembly polls are also being held simultaneously.

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