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 10:10 AM IST
Constituencies in Tamil Nadu that recorded the highest voting percentage (9 am):
Salem - 14.79%
Namakkal - 14.36%
Perambalur - 14.35%
- 19 April 2024 9:46 AM IST
Tamil Nadu: DMK MP Tiruchi N Siva says, "... Polling is very peaceful and we are very hopeful that the INDIA alliance will win and we will form the government. As far as Tamil Nadu is concerned, as we have told you during the campaign itself, all 40 seats will be in our favour. This time 40 out of 40 seats is our hope and it will turn into reality."
- 19 April 2024 9:28 AM IST
DMK's sitting MP and candidate from Thoothukudi seat, Kanimozhi casts her vote at a polling booth in Chennai
AIADMK has fielded R Sivasami Velumani and Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar), which is a part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has fielded SDR Vijayaseelan from Thoothukudi seat
- 19 April 2024 9:23 AM IST
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev casts his vote for the first phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024
- 19 April 2024 9:18 AM IST
BJP candidate from Kanyakumari Pon Radhakrishnan casts his vote at SLB school, Nagercoil.
- 19 April 2024 9:17 AM IST
DMK leader Kanimozhi says, "In Tamil Nadu, I do not even think they (BJP) will come to the second place. The fight is clearly between DMK and AIADMK. BJP does not find space here...In Tamil Nadu, INDIA alliance will get 39 seats and 1 seat in Puducherry..."
- 19 April 2024 9:16 AM IST
Former Tamil Nadu CM and Ramanathapuram Lok Sabha constituency candidate O Panneerselvam says, "The BJP alliance will definitely win. There is a BJP wave across the country. AIADMK will come back to me..."
