3:15 pm: Key Candidates:
Leading: Rahul Gandhi, Vinod Khanna, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Rajnath Singh, PA Sangma, Hema Malini, Babul Supriyo, Ashok Chavan, Misa Bharti, Chirag Paswan, Dr Dharamvira Gandhi, Hukum Singh, Supriya Sule, Murli Manohar Joshi, Rameswar Teli, Kalyan Banerjee, Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge, SS Ahluwalia, Kirit Somaiya, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Mahesh Giri, Ramakant Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan, Shrikant Shinde, Anbumani Ramadoss, Badruddin Ajmal, Dr Daljit Singh, V Narayanasamy, Shatrughan Sinha, Eknath Shinde, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, Bappi Lahiri, Ram Tahal Choudhary, Ashok Nete, Maneka Gandhi, Sunil Soren, Chatap Wamanrao Sadashiv, Bahadur Singh Koli, Bishnu Pada Ray, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Giriraj Singh, Imran Masood, Udit Raj, Hari Om Pandey, Dinesh Kashyap, Abhishek Singh, Jaya Prada, Neiphiu Rio, CL Ruala, Ramesh Bidhuri, Kalraj Mishra, Anurag Thakur, Mehbooba Mufti, Shibu Soren,
Trailing: Meenakshi Natarajan, Sharad Yadav, Veerappa Moily, Anjali Damania, Balbir Saini, Tushar Chaudhary, Bhaichung Bhutia, Preneet Kaur, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Farooq Abdullah, Pratibha Singh, Dayanidhi Maran, Praful Patel, Mukul Balkrishna Wasnik, Rabri Devi, Medha Patkar, Sandeep Dikshit, Karia Munda, Ambika Soni, HS Phoolka, Vaiko, Shahnawaz Hussain, Mohammad Kaif, Ramya, Sachin Pilot, Sushilkumar Sambhajirao Shinde, Mohammad Azharuddin,Subodh Kant Sahay, Nilesh Narayan Rane, Jaipal Reddy, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Smriti Irani, Jaswant Singh, Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Gurudas Kamat, Prabhunath Singh, Rakhi Birla, Krishna Tirath, MM Pallam Raju, Karti Chidambaram, Dimple Yadav
2:40 pm BJP president Rajnath Singh thanked party workers for hard to ensure the huge win and asked them to accept the victory with humility. "Never before in the history of the country has Congress been defeated by such a margin," Singh said. He urged the party supporters not to use offensive sloganeering and foul language.
2:37 pm
2:30 pm Sonia Gandhi wins from Rae Bareli.
2:10 pm Narendra Modi has delivered a stunner. With the NDA set to win over 327 out of the 543 Lok Sabha seats, the Gujarat strongman has got the mandate he asked the nation for. The BJP itself is expected to win over 272 seats, leaving no scope for any error in delivering the change the teeming millions of the country are looking for.
1:05 pm: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to tender resignation on Saturday at 12:30 pm after meeting President Pranab Mukherjee. Meanwhile, the PM phoned Modi and congratulated him on BJP's victory in the Lok Sabha elections.
12:30 pm: According to a report, Modi will take oath on May 21. The BJP's PM candidate will address a press conference in Ahmedabad at 2:30 pm.
12:10 pm Narendra Modi meets her mother. Touches her feet and gets her blessings.
12:08 pm Narendra Modi tweets: India has won, good days are coming!
12:01 pm The BJP-led NDA is seen going far ahead of the 300 seats mark. The latest trends for 540/543 seats indicate that BJP+ is leading in 323 seats, Congress+ in around 73 seats, JD(U) 4, AIADMK (37), Samajwadi Party 1, Bahujan Samaj Party just 1 seat, Left 10, AAP 3 and Others 50 seats.
11:35 am: Narendra Modi wins from Varanasi, defeats Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal and Congress' candidate Ajay Rai. Modi has also won from Vadodara constituency by a margin of over 4 lakh votes.
Also See: General Elections 2014: Modi seeks blessings from mother
11:20 am: After 30 years of coalition governments at the Centre, Narendra Modi has powered the BJP to an historic win as the party is set to win over 272 seats on its own, with the NDA on course to bag over 310 seats. The Narendra Modi wave has really turned out to be a Tsunami that has swept away almost all others.
11:18 am We accept people's verdict, time for us to reflect, says Congress's Satyavrat Chaturvedi.
11:00 am: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi says he will resign, taking full responsibility for Congress's defeat in the state.
10:15 am: Narendra Modi-led BJP and its allies are set to sweep Lok Sabha polls 2014. BJP+ is ahead in 306 seats out of the 512 for which trends are available. The Congress is staring at its worst performance ever with the party ahead in less than 70 seats. Of the regional parties, Mamata's Trinamool Congress is leading in 30 of the total 42 seats in Bengal. In Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party are ahead in only 14 and 8 seats respectively.
9:50 am Narendra Modi wins from Vadodara. Latest trends/results (486/543): BJP+ 293 seats, Congress+ 74 seats, AIADMK 18, BSP 9, SP 13, Left 13, JDU 1, AAP 1, Others 41.
9:40 am First result – RLD leader Ajit Singh has lost against former Mumbai police commissioner Satyapal Singh of the BJP.
The stock markets have also joined the party with the Sensex crossing 25,000 mark. Rahul Gandhi slips to number 3 in Amethi; Smriti Irani is leading, followed by Kumar Vishwas of AAP.
9:05 am: Big trends now available (393/543) - BJP+ ahead in 205 seats, Congress+ 96 seats, AIADMK 13, BSP 7, SP 9, Left 16, JDU 1, AAP 1, Others 30.
8:45 am Latest trends (235/543) - BJP+ ahead in 147 seats, Congress+ 60 seats, BSP 2, AIADMK 5, BSP 4, SP 6 Others 11.
Narendra Modi is ahead from Varanasi and Vadodara. Sonia Gandhi is ahead in Rae Bareli. Former army chief VK Singh, Hema Malini and Uma Bharti are leading in Ghaizabad, Mathura and Jhansi respectively. Congress' Shashi Tharoor is trailing from Thiruvananthapuram.
8:16 am Latest trends available for 42 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats – BJP+ ahead in 28 seats, Congress+ 8 seats, BSP 1, AIADMK 2, Others 3
8:05 am First trends: BJP+ ahead in 3 seats , Congress+ in 1 seat.
8:00 am: Counting of votes have begun at 989 centres spread across 28 states and seven union territories. Nearly 8,000 candidates in the fray for the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha.
7:25 am: Congress confident that exit polls would go wrong. "We are sure that the exit polls will be proved wrong again," said Meem Afzal, party spokesperson.
7 am 'Man of the moment' Narendra Modi will watch the results from his residence in Gandhinagar. If the results turnout to be on expected lines, he will first go to party office in Ahmedabad and then proceed to Vadodara for victory celebrations.
'PM' Modi will come to Delhi tomorrow and also visit Varanasai the same day.
6:50 am Battleground Varanasi: While the BJP seems to be only interested in the victory margin of Narendra Modi from Kashi, his opponents in the electoral war remain confident of upsetting the calculation. Congress'Ajay Rai said that Varanasi will reject 'outsider' Modi. Aam Aadmi Party candidate Arvind Kejriwal will also reach the city by 11 am, reports said.
6:40 am The first trends on the way India has voted will emerge by 8:15 am, a definitive indication will emerge by 9:30 am. The nation is waiting with anticipation to know the fate of Narendra Modi as Elections 2014 has been about his attempt to reclaim Delhi for the BJP.
6:30 am While counting of votes will begin only at 8 am, upbeat BJP workers have started to celebrate in anticipation of a victory in Lok Sabha polls 2014. Party cadre in Kanpur from where Murli Manohar Joshi is in the fray have started the day by bursting crackers.
Massive preparations have also been made at the party headquarters in Delhi. Sweets and firecracks have been ordered in huge quantities to add punch to the celebrations.
Also Read: Lok Sabha polls: Why No 16 is important?
In less than two hours from now the EVM machines will start to reveal how India voted in Lok Sabha polls 2014. While the odds are heavily stocked in favour of Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the larger NDA, as exit polls have gone wrong in the past, there hangs a sense of uncertainty, though muted, about how the final tally will sit.
Elections 2014 witnessed the highest ever voting percentage with 66 percent (551 million) of the 814 million electorate having voted between April 7 and May 12 to pick 543 Lok Sabha members from the nearly 8,000 candidates in the fray in 28 states and seven union territories.
Rs 3,426 crores were spent on the largest-ever electoral exercise in the world conducted by the Election Commission.
Also Read: Kiran Bedi hails 'PM' Narendra Modi, says it seems Indian democracy groomed him
Though trends for individual seats will be available within minutes, a larger trend will become visible within couple of hours. The websites of the Election Commission and the Chief Electoral Officer's office will be updated at the end of every round. The final results are expected to emerge by late afternoon.
Leading: Rahul Gandhi, Vinod Khanna, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Rajnath Singh, PA Sangma, Hema Malini, Babul Supriyo, Ashok Chavan, Misa Bharti, Chirag Paswan, Dr Dharamvira Gandhi, Hukum Singh, Supriya Sule, Murli Manohar Joshi, Rameswar Teli, Kalyan Banerjee, Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge, SS Ahluwalia, Kirit Somaiya, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Mahesh Giri, Ramakant Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan, Shrikant Shinde, Anbumani Ramadoss, Badruddin Ajmal, Dr Daljit Singh, V Narayanasamy, Shatrughan Sinha, Eknath Shinde, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, Bappi Lahiri, Ram Tahal Choudhary, Ashok Nete, Maneka Gandhi, Sunil Soren, Chatap Wamanrao Sadashiv, Bahadur Singh Koli, Bishnu Pada Ray, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Giriraj Singh, Imran Masood, Udit Raj, Hari Om Pandey, Dinesh Kashyap, Abhishek Singh, Jaya Prada, Neiphiu Rio, CL Ruala, Ramesh Bidhuri, Kalraj Mishra, Anurag Thakur, Mehbooba Mufti, Shibu Soren,
Trailing: Meenakshi Natarajan, Sharad Yadav, Veerappa Moily, Anjali Damania, Balbir Saini, Tushar Chaudhary, Bhaichung Bhutia, Preneet Kaur, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Farooq Abdullah, Pratibha Singh, Dayanidhi Maran, Praful Patel, Mukul Balkrishna Wasnik, Rabri Devi, Medha Patkar, Sandeep Dikshit, Karia Munda, Ambika Soni, HS Phoolka, Vaiko, Shahnawaz Hussain, Mohammad Kaif, Ramya, Sachin Pilot, Sushilkumar Sambhajirao Shinde, Mohammad Azharuddin,Subodh Kant Sahay, Nilesh Narayan Rane, Jaipal Reddy, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Smriti Irani, Jaswant Singh, Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Gurudas Kamat, Prabhunath Singh, Rakhi Birla, Krishna Tirath, MM Pallam Raju, Karti Chidambaram, Dimple Yadav
2:40 pm BJP president Rajnath Singh thanked party workers for hard to ensure the huge win and asked them to accept the victory with humility. "Never before in the history of the country has Congress been defeated by such a margin," Singh said. He urged the party supporters not to use offensive sloganeering and foul language.
2:37 pm
2:30 pm Sonia Gandhi wins from Rae Bareli.
2:10 pm Narendra Modi has delivered a stunner. With the NDA set to win over 327 out of the 543 Lok Sabha seats, the Gujarat strongman has got the mandate he asked the nation for. The BJP itself is expected to win over 272 seats, leaving no scope for any error in delivering the change the teeming millions of the country are looking for.
1:05 pm: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to tender resignation on Saturday at 12:30 pm after meeting President Pranab Mukherjee. Meanwhile, the PM phoned Modi and congratulated him on BJP's victory in the Lok Sabha elections.
12:30 pm: According to a report, Modi will take oath on May 21. The BJP's PM candidate will address a press conference in Ahmedabad at 2:30 pm.
12:10 pm Narendra Modi meets her mother. Touches her feet and gets her blessings.
12:08 pm Narendra Modi tweets: India has won, good days are coming!
12:01 pm The BJP-led NDA is seen going far ahead of the 300 seats mark. The latest trends for 540/543 seats indicate that BJP+ is leading in 323 seats, Congress+ in around 73 seats, JD(U) 4, AIADMK (37), Samajwadi Party 1, Bahujan Samaj Party just 1 seat, Left 10, AAP 3 and Others 50 seats.
11:35 am: Narendra Modi wins from Varanasi, defeats Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal and Congress' candidate Ajay Rai. Modi has also won from Vadodara constituency by a margin of over 4 lakh votes.
Also See: General Elections 2014: Modi seeks blessings from mother
11:20 am: After 30 years of coalition governments at the Centre, Narendra Modi has powered the BJP to an historic win as the party is set to win over 272 seats on its own, with the NDA on course to bag over 310 seats. The Narendra Modi wave has really turned out to be a Tsunami that has swept away almost all others.
11:18 am We accept people's verdict, time for us to reflect, says Congress's Satyavrat Chaturvedi.
11:00 am: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi says he will resign, taking full responsibility for Congress's defeat in the state.
10:15 am: Narendra Modi-led BJP and its allies are set to sweep Lok Sabha polls 2014. BJP+ is ahead in 306 seats out of the 512 for which trends are available. The Congress is staring at its worst performance ever with the party ahead in less than 70 seats. Of the regional parties, Mamata's Trinamool Congress is leading in 30 of the total 42 seats in Bengal. In Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party are ahead in only 14 and 8 seats respectively.
9:50 am Narendra Modi wins from Vadodara. Latest trends/results (486/543): BJP+ 293 seats, Congress+ 74 seats, AIADMK 18, BSP 9, SP 13, Left 13, JDU 1, AAP 1, Others 41.
9:40 am First result – RLD leader Ajit Singh has lost against former Mumbai police commissioner Satyapal Singh of the BJP.
The stock markets have also joined the party with the Sensex crossing 25,000 mark. Rahul Gandhi slips to number 3 in Amethi; Smriti Irani is leading, followed by Kumar Vishwas of AAP.
9:05 am: Big trends now available (393/543) - BJP+ ahead in 205 seats, Congress+ 96 seats, AIADMK 13, BSP 7, SP 9, Left 16, JDU 1, AAP 1, Others 30.
8:45 am Latest trends (235/543) - BJP+ ahead in 147 seats, Congress+ 60 seats, BSP 2, AIADMK 5, BSP 4, SP 6 Others 11.
Narendra Modi is ahead from Varanasi and Vadodara. Sonia Gandhi is ahead in Rae Bareli. Former army chief VK Singh, Hema Malini and Uma Bharti are leading in Ghaizabad, Mathura and Jhansi respectively. Congress' Shashi Tharoor is trailing from Thiruvananthapuram.
8:05 am First trends: BJP+ ahead in 3 seats , Congress+ in 1 seat.
8:00 am: Counting of votes have begun at 989 centres spread across 28 states and seven union territories. Nearly 8,000 candidates in the fray for the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha.
7:25 am: Congress confident that exit polls would go wrong. "We are sure that the exit polls will be proved wrong again," said Meem Afzal, party spokesperson.
7 am 'Man of the moment' Narendra Modi will watch the results from his residence in Gandhinagar. If the results turnout to be on expected lines, he will first go to party office in Ahmedabad and then proceed to Vadodara for victory celebrations.
'PM' Modi will come to Delhi tomorrow and also visit Varanasai the same day.
6:50 am Battleground Varanasi: While the BJP seems to be only interested in the victory margin of Narendra Modi from Kashi, his opponents in the electoral war remain confident of upsetting the calculation. Congress'Ajay Rai said that Varanasi will reject 'outsider' Modi. Aam Aadmi Party candidate Arvind Kejriwal will also reach the city by 11 am, reports said.
6:40 am The first trends on the way India has voted will emerge by 8:15 am, a definitive indication will emerge by 9:30 am. The nation is waiting with anticipation to know the fate of Narendra Modi as Elections 2014 has been about his attempt to reclaim Delhi for the BJP.
6:30 am While counting of votes will begin only at 8 am, upbeat BJP workers have started to celebrate in anticipation of a victory in Lok Sabha polls 2014. Party cadre in Kanpur from where Murli Manohar Joshi is in the fray have started the day by bursting crackers.
Massive preparations have also been made at the party headquarters in Delhi. Sweets and firecracks have been ordered in huge quantities to add punch to the celebrations.
Also Read: Lok Sabha polls: Why No 16 is important?
In less than two hours from now the EVM machines will start to reveal how India voted in Lok Sabha polls 2014. While the odds are heavily stocked in favour of Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the larger NDA, as exit polls have gone wrong in the past, there hangs a sense of uncertainty, though muted, about how the final tally will sit.
Elections 2014 witnessed the highest ever voting percentage with 66 percent (551 million) of the 814 million electorate having voted between April 7 and May 12 to pick 543 Lok Sabha members from the nearly 8,000 candidates in the fray in 28 states and seven union territories.
Rs 3,426 crores were spent on the largest-ever electoral exercise in the world conducted by the Election Commission.
Also Read: Kiran Bedi hails 'PM' Narendra Modi, says it seems Indian democracy groomed him
Though trends for individual seats will be available within minutes, a larger trend will become visible within couple of hours. The websites of the Election Commission and the Chief Electoral Officer's office will be updated at the end of every round. The final results are expected to emerge by late afternoon.
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