India General Elections 2024, 64.60% of voters are surveyed in Phase 4 of the
India General Elections 2024: Some states have reported violent incidents and faulty electronic voting machines; West Bengal recorded the highest voting percentage (76.89); Srinagar, hosting its first elections after Article 370 was repealed, had the lowest turnout (38%).
96 constituencies distributed across 10 States and union territories witnessed a voting turnout of 64.60% in the fourth round of the Lok Sabha elections on May 13 until 11 p.m. Several States have reported violent incidents and faulty electronic voting machines (EVMs).
In this round of voting, 1,717 candidates were running, and 17.7 crore voters cast ballots. This phase concludes the voting process for 379 seats in 23 states and union territories. The seven-phase general elections are set to conclude with the final three stages on May 20, May 25, and June 1, with counting on June 4.
The BJP secured 42 seats out of the 96 seats that were up for election on Monday. The YSR Congress secured 22 seats (in Andhra Pradesh), the Bharat Rashtra Samithi secured 9 (in Telangana), the Congress secured 6, the Trinamool Congress secured 4, the TDP secured 3, the BJD, the AIMIM, and the Shiv Sena secured 2 each, and the NCP, LJP, JD(U), and NC earned one each.
In the India General Elections 2024 West Bengal, where activists of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) battled in different sections of the Birbhum and Bardhaman-Durgapur constituencies, registered the highest vote percentage of 76.89 on Monday. High-profile contests included the one in Krishnagar between TMC’s Mahua Moitra and the BJP’s Amrita Roy; the one in Baharampur between the Congress’ Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and TMC’s Yusuf Pathan, a former cricketer turned politician; and the one in Asansol between the BJP’s S.S. Ahluwalia and TMC’s Shatrughan Sinha, a former actor.
The lowest voter turnout was observed in Jammu and Kashmir, which held its first elections after Article 370 was repealed. According to the Election Commission (EC), the polling percentage in Srinagar’s parliamentary seat was 38% until 11 p.m., the highest in many decades.
The lowest voter turnout was observed in Jammu and Kashmir, which held its first elections after Article 370 was repealed. According to the Election Commission (EC), the polling percentage in Srinagar’s parliamentary seat was 38% until 11 p.m., the highest in many decades.
In Telangana’s Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat, BJP candidate K. Madhavi Latha was the target of a charge filed against her when it was allegedly discovered that she appeared in a social media video clip requesting voters who were wearing burqas to reveal their faces so they could match them with their photo identity cards. The TDP and YSRCP in Andhra Pradesh exchanged accusations and blamed one another for using violence, particularly in the districts of Palnadu, Kadapa, and Annamayya. After an argument, Tenali voter A. Shiva Kumar, a Tenali MLA and leader of the YSRCP, allegedly manhandled her, according to police, who also said the voter replied.
While the polling percentage in Jharkhand was 64.59, the turnout in Bihar and Odisha was 57.06% and 65.77%, respectively.
असेंबली The India General Elections 2024 were also held in Andhra Pradesh (175 seats) and Odisha (28 seats) out of a total of 147.
Akhilesh Yadav of the SP, however, charged that the BJP was manipulating the elections in Kannauj. According to Mr. Yadav, there have been concerns about vote irregularities at polling places. He said that the elections were proceeding smoothly and that voters were turning out despite the “dishonesty” in Kannauj.
The SP chief who came to Chhibramau in the Kannauj district declared, “The goons ran away from the booths as soon as I arrived.” Inquiring about the well-being of the police officers with whom BJP members were allegedly misbehaving, the SP head also met them.
The state unit of the BJP claimed in a post on X that SP goons in the Bidhuna Assembly segment of the Kannauj Lok Sabha constituency were preventing people from voting for the BJP and were engaging in booth capturing alongside the police and presiding officer.
District Magistrate Prem Ranjan Singh of the Farrukhabad Lok Sabha seat in the Etah district escorted an elderly woman in a wheelchair to cast her ballot at Gautam Buddha Inter College in Aliganj tehsil. Rajesh Kumar Singh, the senior superintendent of police in Etah, was also present for the India General Elections 2024 event .