Elections 2024 Phase 4 Voting: More than 19 lakh polling officials have been deployed.
The fourth phase of voting for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections ended today in 96 Lok Sabha constituencies across 10 states and Union Territories. A total of 1,717 candidates were in the fray in this phase. 67.25% voter turnout was recorded in phase four across 10 states and union territories.
Polling was held in all 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana, all 25 seats in Andhra Pradesh, 13 in Uttar Pradesh, five in Bihar, four in Jharkhand, eight in Madhya Pradesh, 11 in Maharashtra, four in Odisha, eight in West Bengal and one in Jammu and Kashmir.
Voting took place in the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency and it is the first major election in Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019. Voting was simultaneously held in all 175 Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh and 28 in Odisha in the fourth phase.
More than 19 lakh polling officials were deployed at 1.92 lakh polling stations for the over 17.70 crore eligible voters in this round.
Prominent candidates in the fray are Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Union minister Giriraj Singh, TMC's firebrand leader Mohua Moitra and AIMIM's Asaduddin Owaisi, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, former cricketer Yusuf Pathan of TMC, Andhra Pradesh Congress president YS Sharmila among others.
The Lok Sabha elections are being held across seven phases, from April 19 to June 1. The counting is scheduled for June 4.
Here are the updates on Phase 4 Voting:
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 67.25% final voter turnout recorded today in the fourth phase of polling
Lok Sabha Election Updates: 62.9% overall voter turnout recorded in phase 4
Lok Sabha Elections Live Updates: At 5 pm, 62.3% voter turnout was recorded across 10 states and union territories.
Lok Sabha Election Live Updates: 52.6 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 3 pm
Lok Sabha Election Live Updates: Shuttler Jwala Gutta casts her vote for the fourth phase at a polling booth in Hyderabad.
After casting her vote, Indian badminton player Jwala Gutta says, "Voting is our right. People should come and vote. This is also a message to those in power that we can bring you to power and if you are not doing the right thing for the country and society, then we can also bring you down..."
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Former Telangana CM and BRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao casts his vote at a polling booth in Chintamadaka, Siddipet.
Phase 4 Lok Sabha Election: 4 Lok Sabha seats each in Jharkhand and Odisha are voting today
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj is up against Samajwadi Party's Annu Tandon in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao
Phase 4 Lok Sabha Election: Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy along with his family show their inked finger after casting their votes at a polling station in Kodangal in the Mahabubnagar constituency.
Lok Sabha Elections: Andhra Pradesh Congress President and candidate from Kadapa Lok Sabha seat, YS Sharmila casts her vote at a polling booth in the constituency.
She faces a contest from TDP's Chadipiralla Bhupesh Subbarami Reddy and YSRCP's YS Avinash Reddy.
YSRCP's YS Avinash Reddy is the sitting MP from Kadapa.
YS Sharmila says "I am very sure and confident of my victory here. We should all remember that Congress started with 2% votes, we were already at rock bottom. I am very confident that Congress will get double digit percentage and seats this time..."
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren shows the indelible ink mark on his finger after voting at a polling booth in Jilingora, Saraikela Kharsawan District.
Lok Sabha Election Phase 4 Voting Updates: 24.9% polling recorded till 11 am across 96 seats 
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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: TDP's Nara Lokesh votes in Guntur
Lok Sabha Election Phase 4 Voting Updates: 10.4% Voter Turnout Recorded Across 10 States, Union Territories Till 9 am
Lok Sabha Election Phase 4 Voting Updates: Voting across all 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana is underway
Phase 4 Lok Sabha Election: JKNC Chief Farooq Abdullah and JKNC Vice President Omar Abdullah show their inked fingers after casting their votes
JKNC Chief Farooq Abdullah says "...It is sad that they say that there is no violence and everything is smooth but I want to say that the workers of our party have been locked up for 2 days. I want to ask Union HM and PM Modi why have our workers been locked? Are they scared that they will lose? They will definitely lose..."
Lok Sabha Election Live Updates: Free breakfast and ice cream are being distributed to early voters at the city's famous 56 Dukan restaurant in Indore
Lok Sabha Election Live Updates: JKNC Vice President Omar Abdullah arrives at a polling booth in Srinagar to cast his voteNational Conference (NC) has fielded Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi from the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat, PDP fielded Waheed-ur-Rehman Para, and J&K Apni Party's fielded Mohammad Ashraf Mir.
Lok Sabha Election Phase 4 Voting Updates: Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan arrives at a polling booth in Mangalagiri to cast his vote.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: JKNC Chief Farooq Abdullah arrives at a polling booth in Srinagar to cast his voteNational Conference (NC) has fielded Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi from the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat, PDP fielded Waheed-ur-Rehman Para, and J&K Apni Party's fielded Mohammad Ashraf Mir.
Lok Sabha Election Live Updates: ndhra Pradesh Governor S Abdul Nazeer along with his wife Sameera Nazeer cast their votes at the Green Polling Station in Vijayawada.
Phase 4 Lok Sabha Election: BJP MP and candidate from Unnao, Sakshi Maharaj casts his vote at a polling booth in the constituency.
Samajwadi Party (SP) has fielded Annu Tandon and BSP has fielded Ashok Kumar Pandey here.
Lok Sabha Election Live Updates: A look at candidates contesting Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Phase 4 with 0 wealth
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minsiter Mohan Yadav casts his vote at a polling station in Ujjain.
Lok Sabha Election Phase 4 Voting Updates: Film star Chiranjeevi Konidela and his family arrive at a polling booth in Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad to cast their vote.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: AIMIM candidate from Hyderabad, Asaduddin Owaisi arrives at a polling booth in Hyderabad to cast his vote.
He faces BJP's Madhavi Latha and BRS' Gaddam Srinivas Yadav here.
Lok Sabha Election Live Updates: Union Minister and BJP's candidate from Jalna Lok Sabha seat, Raosaheb Patil Danve casts his vote at a polling booth in Jalna, Maharashtra
Mr Danve is sitting MP from this seat. INDIA alliance has fielded Congress leader Kalyan Vaijinathrao Kale from this seat.
Phase 4 Lok Sabha Election: Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu casts his vote at a polling booth in Guntur.
Lok Sabha Election Live Updates: Voters queue up outside a polling booth in Ganderbal of Jammu and Kashmir
Lok Sabha Election Phase 4 Voting Updates: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy casts his vote at Kadapa Constituency's Jayamahal Anganawadi Polling Booth No. 138.
Congress's YS Sharmila, TDP's Chadipiralla Bhupesh Subbarami Reddy and YSRCP's YS Avinash Reddy are contesting elections from this seat.
YSRCP's YS Avinash Reddy is the sitting MP from Kadapa
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Tripura Governor N Indrasena Reddy, along with his family, casts his vote at a polling booth in Saleem Nagar, Hyderabad.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Former Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and his wife Usha Naidu show the indelible ink mark on their fingers after casting their vote at a polling booth in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.
Phase 4 Lok Sabha Election: BJP candidate from Hyderabad, Madhavi Latha casts her vote at a polling booth in the constituency
She faces sitting MP and AIMIM candidate Asaduddin Owaisi and BRS' Gaddam Srinivas Yadav here.
Madhavi Latha says, "I only have to tell all the voters that it is the responsibility of every citizen that they need to go out to vote because the vote brings two changes - 1) a new change and development towards themselves and their families, 2) it gives an opportunity to change the lives of downtrodden, Dalits, poor and the lives of every elderly people who have been abandoned. Vote is the most precious social work along with a selfish desire to move towards development..."
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Actor Allu Arjun arrives at a polling booth in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad to cast his vote.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Actor Jr NTR arrives at a polling booth in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad to cast his vote.
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Asaduddin Owaisi
The four-time MP from Hyderabad, AIMIM's Asaduddin Owaisi, is contesting from his family stronghold Hyderabad, which was represented by his father Salahuddin Owaisi for two decades, from 1984-2004. While the Congress and the Bharat Rashtra Samithi have fielded Mohammad Waliullah Sameer and Gaddam Srinivas Yadav from the seat, Mr Owaisi's most-talked-about opponent is the BJP's Kompella Madhavi Latha.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Of the eight West Bengal seats going to polls in the third phase is Baharampur, the fort of Congress leader in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. A five-time MP from the seat, Mr Chowdhury is known to hold considerable clout in the north Bengal constituency. This time, he is up against the BJP's Nirmal Kumar Saha and Trinamool's pick, former cricketer Yusuf Pathan.
Mahua Moitra
The firebrand Trinamool Congress leader, who was expelled as an MP last December in the cash-for-query case, is contesting again from West Bengal's Krishnanagar, which elected her in the 2019 election. The seat has been with the Trinamool Congress since 2009.
Lok Sabha Election Phase 4 Voting Updates: Uttar Pradesh Minister Suresh Khanna casts his vote at a polling booth in Shahjahanpur.
INDIA Alliance has fielded SP's Jyotsna Gond here. She faces BJP's sitting MP and candidate Arun Kumar Sagar & BSP's Dod Ram Verma.
Lok Sabha Election Live Updates: Union Minister and BJP candidate from Secunderabad Parliamentary constituency, G Kishan Reddy arrives at a polling booth to cast his vote.
He faces contests from Danam Nagender and BRS' Theegulla Padma Rao.
Lok Sabha Election Live Updates: Voting begins in 96 Lok Sabha seats across 9 states, Jammu and Kashmir in 4th phase.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Mock polling underway at polling booth no. 245 at Vivekananda Girls High School of Ichhalabad of the Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency
Lok Sabha Election Phase 4 Voting Updates: Mock polling underway at polling booth no. 237 of Zila Parishad Boys High School, Kodangal of Mahbubnagar Lok Sabha Constituency
Lok Sabha Election Live Updates: Mock poll starts at polling booth no 136 in Bhawanipatana Assembly Constituency and Kalahandi Lok Sabha Constituency.
Phase 4 Lok Sabha Election: Mock Poll underway at polling booth no.188 of the Indore Lok Sabha Constituency
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Polling preparations are underway at the Kadapa Constituency's Jayamahal Anganawadi Polling Booth No. 138 in Andhra Pradesh's Kadapa.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will also cast his vote from the polling booth.
Congress's YS Sharmila from INDIA alliance, TDP's Chadipiralla Bhupesh Subbarami Reddy from NDA, and YSRCP's YS Avinash Reddy are contesting elections from this seat.
YSRCP's YS Avinash Reddy is the sitting MP from Kadapa.
Prominent candidates in the fray are: - Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav
- Union minister Giriraj Singh, TMC's firebrand leader Mohua Moitra
- AIMIM's Asaduddin Owaisi
- Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
- Former cricketer Yusuf Pathan of TMC
- Andhra Pradesh Congress president YS Sharmila
- The fourth phase of voting for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections will take place today in 96 Lok Sabha constituencies across 10 states and Union Territories.
- A total of 1,717 candidates are in the fray in this phase.
- Polling will be held in all 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana, all 25 seats in Andhra Pradesh, 13 in Uttar Pradesh, five in Bihar, four in Jharkhand, eight in Madhya Pradesh, 11 in Maharashtra, four in Odisha, eight in West Bengal and one in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Voting will also take place in the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency.
- More than 19 lakh polling officials have been deployed at 1.92 lakh polling stations for the over 17.70 crore eligible voters in this round.