At least 62.28 per cent of voters exercised their franchise till 5 pm in nine Lok Sabha seats of Madhya Pradesh in the third phase of the general elections on Tuesday, a poll official said. Of the nine Lok Sabha seats, Rajgarh recorded the highest 72.08 per cent turnout, followed by Vidisha with 69.2 per cent, Guna with 68.93 per cent, Betul with 67.97 per cent, Sagar with 61.7 per cent, Bhopal with 58.42 per cent, Gwalior with 57.86 per cent, Morena with 55.25 per cent and Bhind with 50.96 per cent, till 5 pm, the official said. Former chief ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Digvijaya Singh and state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president V D Sharma were among the early voters.

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh and Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who are contesting the polls from Rajgarh and Guna, respectively, will not be able to vote for themselves as the former is a registered voter of Bhopal, and the latter is registered to vote from Gwalior, party sources said. Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the BJP candidate from Vidisha seat, exercised franchise with his wife, Sadhna Singh, and two sons at a polling booth in his native village, Jait, in Sehore district.

Karnataka Lok Sabha Election 2024 Voting LIVE: The battleground is once again witnessing an electoral contest in Karnataka as voting across the remaining 14 seats of the southern state began at 7 am. The Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress are facing each other head-on in the state’s second round of electoral contest.

During the second phase of the Lok Sabha election, half of the 28 seats went to polls, witnessing a voter turnout of 69.56 per cent. Notably, unlike the first round, this will be a straight fight between the saffron camp and the grand old party as the Janata Dal (Secular) — BJP’s NDA alliance partner — is not contesting on these seats.

During the 2019 general elections, the BJP had swept all these 14 seats, defeating Congress and JD(S), which were in alliance and ruling the state at the time.

Key candidates to watch out for this time around are, Former Chief Ministers Basavaraj Bommai, Jagadish Shettar, Union Ministers Pralhad Joshi, Bhagwanth Khuba, Congress’ Geetha Shivrajkumar, Radhakrishna Doddamani, BY Raghavendra and suspended BJP leader KS Eshwarappa.

Karnataka Constituencies Voting In Phase-3

The constituencies that will go to polls in the third of the seven-phase general elections are: Chikkodi, Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Gulbarga, Bidar, Raichur, Koppal, Bellary, Havery, Dharwad, Uttara Kannada, Davanagere and Shimoga.

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Gujarat Elections 2024: Polling for the third phase of Lok Sabha Election 2024 is underway across 25 constituencies in Gujarat on Tuesday, May 7. In the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections, voting is being held across 94 constituencies, covering 10 states and one Union Territory.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah cast their vote in Ahmedabad Lok Sabha constituency on Tuesday and urged the voters to come and vote in large numbers.

The constituencies that will vote in Gujarat are Kachchh, Banaskantha, Patan, Mahesana, Sabarkantha, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad East, Ahmedabad West, Surendranagar, Rajkot, Porbandar, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Anand, Kheda, Panchmahal, Dahod, Vadodara, Chhota Udaipur, Bharuch, Bardoli, Navsari and Valsad.

Among the 26 seats in Gujarat, the Surat seat witnessed the unopposed win of  BJP candidate Mukesh Dalal after the nomination paper of Congress’ pick was rejected and the other candidates withdrew from the race.

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