1 / 18Final Phase Begins: The final phase of the Lok Sabha polls began on Saturday. Voting is underway in seven states and the Union Territory of Chandigarh for 57 constituencies. This includes Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third consecutive term. Saturday’s voting will mark the end of the marathon polling process that began on April 19. (PTI photo)
2 / 18Heatwave Challenges: The voting is being held amid a severe heatwave in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, and Chandigarh. Polling for the remaining 42 assembly constituencies in Odisha and bypolls to six assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh are also taking place simultaneously. (PTI photo)
3 / 18Counting Dates: The counting of votes will be taken up on June 4. In Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, the counting for the Assembly polls will be held on June 2. (PTI photo)
4 / 18Turnout Figures: According to the EC's voter-turnout app at 8 pm, the estimated polling percentage in the last phase was 59.15%. A voter turnout of nearly 69.03% was recorded in Jharkhand. Uttar Pradesh logged a polling percentage of 55.60, West Bengal 69.89, Bihar 49.58 and Himachal Pradesh 67.39. Punjab recorded a voter turnout of 55.69% while Chandigarh registered a voting percentage of 62.80. Odisha recorded around 63.21% voting. (PTI photo)
5 / 18Previous Phases: The turnout in the first six phases of the general election was 66.14%, 66.71%, 65.68%, 69.16%, 62.2% and 63.36% respectively. The poll panel had called upon voters to turn out in greater numbers and vote with responsibility and pride. (PTI photo)
6 / 18Violence Erupts: In Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, clashes broke out between TMC and BJP supporters over allegations of electoral malpractices. As both the groups came to blows on Basanti express highway, police resorted to baton charge and tear gas shelling to disperse the mob. (PTI photo)
7 / 18Modi’s Appeal: “Today is the final phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. As 57 seats across 8 states and UTs go to the polls, calling upon the voters to turnout in large numbers and vote. I hope young and women voters exercise their franchise in record numbers,” he added. (PTI photo)
8 / 18Prominent Candidates: Prominent candidates among the 904 in the fray are Union minister Anurag Thakur, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti and actor Kangana Ranaut. (PTI photo)
9 / 18Eligible Voters: More than 10.06 crore citizens, including nearly 5.24 crore men, 4.82 crore women and 3,574 third-gender electors, are eligible to vote in this phase. (PTI photo)
10 / 18Exit Poll Guidelines: According to the EC’s guidelines, television channels and news outlets will be able to run exit poll data and its results after 6:30 pm. (PTI photo)
11 / 18Campaigning Ends: The campaigning for the last phase, which ended on Thursday evening, saw ruling BJP leaders, led by Modi, accusing the Congress and the INDIA opposition bloc of being corrupt, anti-Hindu and engaging in loot, appeasement and dynastic politics. (PTI photo)
12 / 18Bihar Polls: Polling is being held in eight Lok Sabha constituencies of Bihar, along with the bypoll to the Agiaon Assembly seat. Union minister R K Singh and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad are among the contestants in the fray. (PTI photo)
13 / 18Jharkhand Seats: The Dumka, Rajmahal and Godda seats in Jharkhand are going to polls in this phase. All eyes are on Dumka, where the BJP’s Sita Soren, the sister-in-law of jailed former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, is contesting against the INDIA bloc’s Nalin Soren. (PTI photo)
14 / 18Odisha Elections: Polling is being held for six Lok Sabha and 42 Assembly seats in Odisha. Assembly Speaker Pramila Mallik, the government’s chief whip Prashant Muduli, Odisha BJP chief Manmohan Samal and BJP national vice-president Baijayant Panda are among the candidates in the fray. (PTI photo)
15 / 18West Bengal Seats Voting is also being held for the Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jaynagar, Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin and Kolkata Uttar seats in West Bengal. Several heavyweight candidates, including incumbent Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Sougata Roy and Mala Roy, former Union minister Debasree Chaudhuri of the BJP and senior CPI(M) leader Sujan Chakraborty, are in the fray. (PTI photo)
16 / 18Uttar Pradesh Votes: Voting is underway in 13 constituencies of Uttar Pradesh, which sends the highest number of 80 members to the Lok Sabha among all the states. (PTI photo)
17 / 18Punjab Elections In Punjab, INDIA bloc allies – the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) – are contesting the election separately, while the BJP and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) are fighting the polls on their own for the first time since 1996. (PTI photo)
18 / 18Himachal Pradesh Polls: Polling is being held for four Lok Sabha seats – Hamirpur, Mandi, Kangra and Shimla – and six Assembly constituencies of Sujanpur, Dharamshala, Lahaul and Spiti, Barsar, Gagret and Kutlehar in Himachal Pradesh. All eyes are on Mandi, where Ranaut of the BJP has locked horns with the Congress’s Vikramaditya Singh. (PTI photo)
