Elections 2019 Phase 7 Highlights: Polling on 542 constituencies conclude with 60.21% turnout today

Background

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Phase 7 Live Updates: Voting will be held in 59 constituencies across seven states and a union territory today, May 19 in the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha elections. Over 10.1 crore voters will decide the fate of 918 candidates including Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They will cast their ballot at over 1.12 lakh polling stations.

Polling will take place on remaining eight constituencies of Bihar, three of Jharkhand, eight of Madhya Pradesh, 13 of Uttar Pradesh, nine of West Bengal and all the four of Himachal Pradesh, 13 of Punjab and the lone seat of Chandigarh.

While campaigning ended on Friday in six of the states, it ended on Thursday in West Bengal on the Election Commission's orders. In an unprecedented action, the poll panel on Wednesday curtailed the campaign period in West Bengal following violence involving BJP and Trinamool Congress workers in Kolkata during a road show of BJP chief Amit Shah on Tuesday.

18:33 PM (IST)  •  19 May 2019

An estimated 70.54 per cent of the over 45.64 lakh electorate exercised their franchise in three Lok Sabha constituencies in the fourth and final phase of polling in Jharkhand on Sunday.

18:10 PM (IST)  •  19 May 2019

Total voter turnout till 6 pm: 60.21%

• Bihar- 49.92%
• Himachal Pradesh- 66.17%
• Madhya Pradesh- 69.38%
• Punjab- 58.81%
• Uttar Pradesh- 54.37%
• West Bengal- 73.05%
• Jharkhand- 70.50%
• Chandigarh- 63.57%

17:58 PM (IST)  •  19 May 2019

Election Commission: In 7th phase of #LokSabhaElections2019 7.27 crore voters took part of which 3.47 crore were women and 3,377 were persons of third gender. https://t.co/PI6ldSgF8c

— ANI (@ANI) May 19, 2019

17:57 PM (IST)  •  19 May 2019

Narendra Modi government would return to power with absolute majority for the second time, said Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Sunday while talking to reporters after casting her vote at a polling booth in Old Palasia in Indore.

17:52 PM (IST)  •  19 May 2019

A man was brutally murdered in full public view allegedly by his neighbours following a heated exchange over some issue, even as polling for the last phase of Lok Sabha elections was underway in Punjab's Tarn Taran district on Sunday.