India election 2019 Lok Sabha election results 2019 News
Gujarat, which has 26 Lok Sabha seats, went to polls in the third phase of election.
Tamil Nadu recorded a voter turnout of 72.01 per cent while the polling percentage in Puducherry was 81.21.
The main battle in Tamil Nadu was between AIADMK-BJP and DMK-Congress. In the lone seat of Puducherry, the All India NR Congress (AINRC) and the Congress are the only two parties.
Lok Sabha election result 2019: Gujarat is the home-turf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top BJP leaders including Amit Shah,
Both the Congress and BJP are minor players in Tamil Nadu which has been a bitter contest between the AIADMK and DMK over the last few decades.
Lok Sabha election results 2019: The fate of 822 candidates in Tamil Nadu and 18 candidates in Puducherry were sealed on April 18 during the second phase of polling.
Voting in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry took place in the third phase on April 23.
There are 822 candidates in the fray from Tamil Nadu while 18 tried their luck from the lone Lok Sabha seat in Puducherry.
Gujarat recorded a total voter turnout of 64.11 per cent, which is almost similar to the polling per cent of 2014 Lok Sabha election.
The verification of results, on Supreme Court's order, will be matched with the VVPAT slips of five randomly-selected EVMs per assembly segment.
The counting of votes will begin at 8 am on May 23, Thursday.
This is for the first time in a Lok Sabha election that results of voting machines will be matched with slips generated by paper trail machines.
22 opposition parties met top EC officials on Tuesday and submitted a memorandum to the poll panel, demanding that VVPAT slips should be counted first.
Azam Khan's statement comes amidst allegations by the opposition parties that EVMs were being tampered with and changed in several parts of UP.
Kumaraswamy has cancelled his scheduled visit to Delhi on Tuesday, where he was expected to take part in a meeting of opposition leaders over the issue of EVM.
Re-polling will now be conducted on May 22 from 7 am to 6 pm.
In a hard-hitting tweet, Mehbooba Mufti wrote that the 'dubious' exit polls, followed by manipulating EVMs is 'another Balakot in the making.'
A delegation of 21 opposition parties will meet in Delhi to discuss post-poll strategy.
Violence marred all seven rounds of Lok Sabha election in West Bengal.
The Home Ministry officials said deployment of such a large number of security personnel in the 2019 general election was the highest ever in India.
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