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 7:23 AM IST
AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami cast his vote at Salem Siluvampalayam.
Palaniswami stood In a queue along with his family members at a panchayat school to cast his vote.
- 19 April 2024 7:11 AM IST
Actor Ajith Kumar cast his vote at a booth, located in Government Higher Secondary School in Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai South Lok Sabha constituency
- 19 April 2024 6:47 AM IST
CEC Rajiv Kumar says, "Everything is in place. The preparations started actually two years back and a wide range of preparations. So, it's from preparing the voter list, to preparing polling stations, finding their routes, how to reach their deployment of forces, finding out vulnerable booths and then creating amenities at the booths...So, it's a tremendous exercise started over two years back.
Also, the great technological interventions which are there. So, everything is prepared over roughly 1.86 lakh polling stations to go on the first phase of polling with around 16.86 crore voters. So, everything is set. It is now for voters to come and vote in large numbers on every polling station."
- 19 April 2024 6:33 AM IST
#WATCH | #LokSabhaElection2024 | Polling preparations underway at a polling booth under the South Chennai Parliamentary constituency in Saligramam area
— ANI (@ANI) April 19, 2024
All 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu are going to polls today, in the first phase of the 2024 general elections. pic.twitter.com/ITTiF6Ya8c
