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 8:16 AM IST
Virudhunagar BJP candidate Raadhika and her husband SarathKumar cast their vote at Kottivakkam Nellai Nadar school
- 19 April 2024 8:08 AM IST
After casting his vote, Congress leader P Chidambaram says, "I am very happy and proud that I have been able to cast my vote in the Lok Sabha elections. As far as Tamil Nadu is concerned, I am absolutely confident that the INDIA group will win all 39 Parliamentary seats in Tamil Nadu...This is the first phase of elections, there are seven phases...Today all of Tamil Nadu votes and I am absolutely confident that we will win all seats."
- 19 April 2024 8:07 AM IST
Congress leader and candidate from Sivaganga constituency, Karti P Chidambaram, says, "People are very unhappy with the BJP-led central government and people will vote out the BJP government and they will overwhelmingly vote for the INDIA alliance in Tamil Nadu..."
On electoral bonds, he says, "...There has been a clear quid pro quo established with electoral bonds and the donations which the BJP has got. In fact, I am demanding an independent inquiry by three retired Supreme Court judges to go into the quid pro quo with electoral bonds..."
- 19 April 2024 8:05 AM IST
#WATCH | Tamil Nadu Minister and DMK leader KN Nehru casts his vote for the first phase of #LokSabhaElections2024, in Thillai Nagar, Tiruchirappalli. pic.twitter.com/HyNRGwkeaT
— ANI (@ANI) April 19, 2024 - 19 April 2024 8:05 AM IST
Former Governor and BJP Chennai South Lok Sabha constituency candidate Tamilisai Soundararajan, says, "I appeal to all brothers, sisters, elders to please come and vote. Don't give away your democratic right. Take a selfie and motivate others..."
- 19 April 2024 8:01 AM IST
Tamil Nadu BJP chief and party's candidate from Coimbatore constituency, K Annamalai casts his vote at a polling booth in Uthupatti, Karur.
He faces DMK's Ganapathy P. Rajkumar in the constituency.
- 19 April 2024 7:41 AM IST
Actor Sivakarthikeyan casts his vote in Good Shepherd Matriculation Higher Secondary School Valasaravakkam
- 19 April 2024 7:31 AM IST
Chennai South DMK candidate Tamizhachi Thangapandian and BJP candidate Tamilisai Soundararajan cast their vote in Neelankarai and Saligramam, respectively.
