Votes are being counted in the Lok Sabha election 2024. The seven-phase election that began on April 19 and ended on June 1 saw a fierce contest between the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Opposition bloc INDIA.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is looking to win a historic third term, while the INDIA bloc is hoping to win a majority in the Lok Sabha by pooling in all the seats their member parties manage to get.

According to the Election Commission, the phase 1 voter turnout was 66.14 per cent for 102 parliamentary constituencies, and phase 2 was 66.71 per cent for 88 seats. In phase 3, the voter turnout was 65.68 per cent for 93 seats. The phase 4 voter turnout was 69.16 per cent for 96 parliamentary constituencies. It was 62.2 per cent in phase 5 for 49 seats. The phase 6 turnout was 63.37 per cent for 58 seats.

The Election Commission (EC) led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu constantly monitored the progress of polling in all the phases from the EC’s headquarters in Delhi’s Nirvachan Sadan. A state-of-the-art control room worked at the headquarters, with similar control rooms set up in the state and district levels too.

Against the backdrop of a largely peaceful and conducive environment, the nation's diverse electorate painted vivid pictures of democracy in action. From bustling city centres to remote villages, polling stations saw a colourful convergence of voters spanning generations and backgrounds. A few polling booths in some states saw violence.

The optional home voting facility marked a paradigm shift in the electoral process. It was available for the first time in the history of India's general elections. Any citizen aged 85 and above or with 40 per cent benchmarked disability were given the option of home voting facility through postal ballot.

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