India election results: Big wins, losses and surprises | India Election 2024 News

India election results: Big wins, losses and surprises | India Election 2024 News

As India’s election results become clearer, with hundreds of millions of votes counted and leads solidifying on most of the country’s 543 seats, the world’s — and history’s — largest democratic exercise appears to have thrown up some big surprises. As counting progressed on Tuesday, the governing Bharatiya Janata Party…

Modi magic: Why Indian exit polls predict record BJP win | India Election 2024 News

Modi magic: Why Indian exit polls predict record BJP win | India Election 2024 News

New Delhi, India – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 73, appears poised for a rare third term and is likely to be re-elected with a thumping majority, exit polls showed Saturday evening, hammering the opposition alliance in the world’s largest democratic vote ever. If the official results due Tuesday, June…

India election results 2024: How will votes be counted? | India Election 2024 News

India election results 2024: How will votes be counted? | India Election 2024 News

EXPLAINER Here’s how votes for India’s Lok Sabha polls will be counted using EVMs on June 4. India’s multiphase voting concluded on Saturday after seven rounds of elections over 44 days. The giant electoral exercise – the largest in democratic history – saw 15 million polling staff travelling the length…

India’s exit polls show a majority for Modi’s BJP-led alliance in election | India Election 2024 News

India’s exit polls show a majority for Modi’s BJP-led alliance in election | India Election 2024 News

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance is projected to win an emphatic majority in the general election, TV exit polls say, suggesting the right-wing party would do better than expected by most analysts. Most exit polls on Saturday projected the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) could…

Photos: India votes in last phase of world’s largest electoral exercise | India Election 2024 News

Photos: India votes in last phase of world’s largest electoral exercise | India Election 2024 News

Voters in India have braved soaring temperatures to cast their ballots in the last phase of the country’s staggered elections to decide the fate of 904 candidates, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The polls on Saturday conclude the largest electoral exercise in the world that kicked off on April 19, with…

‘Minority exclusion’: Are Indian Muslims facing voter suppression? | India Election 2024

‘Minority exclusion’: Are Indian Muslims facing voter suppression? | India Election 2024

New Delhi, India – Daily wage worker Mustagir Qureshi decided to cast his vote early in the morning to avoid queuing up under the scorching sun in Uttar Pradesh state’s Sambhal district in northern India. But as he reached the school-turned-polling station in his native Obri village on May 7…

Darker days lay ahead for opposition, minorities after India’s election | India Election 2024

Darker days lay ahead for opposition, minorities after India’s election | India Election 2024

For many commentators, an unequivocal victory for Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the foregone conclusion of the ongoing Indian general elections. They insist that the question is not if Modi will win but by how much in terms of seats and votes. Yet, despite this seeming certainty regarding…

India Lok Sabha election 2024 Phase 7: Who votes and what’s at stake? | India Election 2024 News

India Lok Sabha election 2024 Phase 7: Who votes and what’s at stake? | India Election 2024 News

Indians will cast ballots in the last phase of the country’s staggered elections on June 1 to decide the fate of 904 candidates, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, concluding the largest electoral exercise in the world that kicked off on April 19. Fifty-seven seats across eight states and federally-run territories…

‘In shadows’: Meta, YouTube black market clouds India election integrity | India Election 2024 News

‘In shadows’: Meta, YouTube black market clouds India election integrity | India Election 2024 News

New Delhi, India – In 2019, political consultant Tushar Giri found himself in a room with a distraught veteran leader from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The politician was a five-time legislator and, until a few days before that meeting, had been a chief ministerial candidate…