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Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 7 Voting Updates: Voting for the final and seventh phase of the 18th Lok Sabha elections, which began at 7 am on Saturday, will conclude at 6 pm. According to the Election Commission’s voter-participation app, the estimated voter turnout in the final phase of Saturday’s general elections was 40.09 percent as of 1 p.m. Polling is underway in 57 constituencies spanning seven states and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Voting has begun in all 13 seats in Punjab, four in Himachal Pradesh, 13 in Uttar Pradesh, nine in West Bengal, eight in Bihar, six in Odisha, and three in Jharkhand, in addition to Chandigarh. Polling took place simultaneously in 42 Assembly constituencies in Odisha and six Assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh.
Several key candidates are in the fray in the seventh phase, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is eyeing a third term from Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi, former union minister and BJP stalwart Ravi Shankar Prasad (Patna Sahib), Actress Kangana Ranaut (Mandi), Congress’ Manish Tewari (Chandigarh), Samajwadi party leader Afzal Ansari (Ghazipur) and Bhojpuri star Pawan Singh (Karakat).
Today’s polling will mark a finish to world’s largest polling marathon that began on April 19 and already covered 6 phases and 486 Lok Sabha seats. Counting of votes will take place on 4th June. Lok Sabha Elections 2024 held over 44 days between April 19 and June 1 is what has been the second-longest elections after the first general elections held in India in 1951-52.
