May 20, 2024 04:00PM (GMT+6)
India General Elections 2024 Live, Phase 5 Voting (Recorded till 3 PM)
Voter Turnout
47.53%
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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Phase 5 In Pictures
May 20, 2024 04:35PM (GMT+6)
Polling booth for just one family in Ladakh village
In the remote Himalayan village of Washi in Ladakh, the election commission set up a unique polling booth for just one family.
“A polling station was set up under a tent in the remote village of Washi in Nubra, around 170 kms from Leh, as part of the Election Commission’s efforts to ensure 100 per cent participation of people in the electoral process,” said Ladakh chief electoral officer (CEO) Yetindra M Maralkar in a report in The Indian Express.
The family consists of six members and five of them – two males and three females – are eligible to vote.
The union territory of Ladakh comprises two districts – Kargil and Buddhist-dominated Leh. The total eligible voters are 1,82,571, including 91,703 males and 90,868 females. The EC has set up 577 polling stations across the UT, including 33 in urban and 544 in rural areas.
Ladakh, the largest constituency in the country in terms of area, witnessed 71.05% turnout in the 2019 general election. In 2024, it has witnessed over 60% voter turnout till 3pm local time.
This is the first major electoral battle in the region after it was carved out of Jammu and Kashmir and granted Union Territory status in 2019.
Voter turnout of 47.53% recorded till 3 PM
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Who Are the Key Candidates in Phase 5?
India's Phase 5 Lok Sabha elections feature key contests with Rahul Gandhi, Smriti Irani and several Union Ministers and party chiefs in the race.
Rahul Gandhi (Raebareli)
Rahul Gandhi, who also contested the 18th Lok Sabha polls from the Kerala's Wayanad seat, is facing Congress defector and three-time MLC Dinesh Pratap Singh of the BJP in Raebareli.
Smriti Irani vs Kishori Lal Sharma (Amethi)
The contest for Amethi seat will be intense battle between Congress loyalist Kishori Lal Sharma and Union Minister Smriti Irin Amethi.
Rajnath Singh (Lucknow)
Hoping for a hatrick, Defence Minister and BJP candidate Rajnath Singh will face Samajwadi Party candidate Ravidas Mehrotra in this seat.
Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North)
Contesting for the first time in Lok Sabha polls, Union Minister Piyush Goyal is all set to give a tough fight to Congress' Bhushan Patil from the Mumbai North seat.
Omar Abdullah (Baramulla)
National Conference (NC) leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah is pitted against Sajad Lone of the Peoples Conference (PC) and Mir Mohammad Fayaz of Peoples Democratic Party.
Ujjwal Nikam vs Varsha Gaikwad (Mumbai North Central)
In a bid to retain the sitting seat, the BJP has fielded 26/11 special prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, replacing two-time MP Poonam Mahajan against Congress' Varsha Gaikwad from Maharashtra's Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha seat.
Rohini Acharya (Saran)
Rohini Acharya, the daughter of Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, is contesting against BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
May 20, 2024 12:30PM (GMT+6)
The 49 seats voting in phase 5 of Lok Sabha Elections registered 23.6 per cent voter turnout till 11 am, according to Election Commission of India. West Bengal recorded highest with 33 per cent followed by Ladakh with 27.8 per cent, UP with 27.7 per cent, and Jharkhand with 26 per cent turnout, the poll panel said. The Baramulla seat in J&K recorded 21.3 per cent turnout till 11 am. Maharashtra recorded about 16 per cent turnout till 11 am.
23.6 % voter turnout reported till 11 am
May 20, 2024 12:00 PM (GMT+6)
The first four phases of the election have already decided the fate of 379 of 543 members of the Lok Sabha.
So far, voting has concluded for all the seats in the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka; the southern union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Puducherry; and all the northeastern states of Meghalaya, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.
Elections have also concluded in Uttarakhand in the north, Chhattisgarh in central India, and Goa, Gujarat and Rajasthan states in the west.
Phase 6 of the vote will be held on May 25 and the election then heads towards the seventh and final phase on June 1.
May 20, 2024 11:50AM (GMT+6)
As 49 seats across 8 states and UTs go to the polls today in the 5th phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, urging all those whose constituencies are polling today to vote in record numbers. I specially call upon women voters and young voters to exercise their franchise.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 20, 2024
May 20, 2024 11:37AM (GMT+6)
Re-election has been recommended today to the Election Commission at a polling booth in village Aliganj of Uttar Pradesh after a video of a youth casting multiple votes went viral on social media platforms. The seat had gone to polls on 13 May.
Following the incident, the youth was arrested and identified as Rajan Singh, a resident of the village of Khiriya Pamaran in UP’s Etah district.
In the two-minute-long video, the voter was seen voting for a BJP candidate, Mukesh Rajput, on the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) at least 8 times.
However, the authenticity of the video isn’t independently verified.
But it was shared by several opposition leaders, including Congress and Samajwadi Party, on X.
अगर चुनाव आयोग को लगे कि ये गलत हुआ है तो वो कुछ कार्रवाई ज़रूर करे, नहीं तो…
— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) May 19, 2024
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May 20, 2024 10:35AM (GMT+6)
