Lok Sabha election results 2024 updates: Highlights on June 6, 2024

Aam Aadmi Party’s alliance with Congress only for Lok Sabha polls, not for Assembly elections, AAP leader Gopal Rai told PTI.

The LJP (Ram Vilas) has extended “unconditional” support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the BJP-led NDA’s victory in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls is the “victory of his leadership”, party chief Chirag Paswan said.

Leaders of the BJP-led NDA unanimously elected PM Modi as the ruling bloc’s leader on Wednesday, passing a resolution to underscore the government’s commitment to serving the poor, women, youths, farmers and deprived sections of society.

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Newly elected MPs of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance are expected to meet on June 7 to elect Narendra Modi as their leader, paving the way for him to take oath as Prime Minister for a third term.

After Mr. Modi’s election as the leader of NDA MPs, senior members of the alliance like TDP’s N. Chandrababu Naidu and JD(U)‘s Nitish Kumar will join the Prime Minister for a meeting with President Droupadi Murmu to present her the list of parliamentarians supporting him, some alliance members said.

He may be sworn in over the weekend, possibly June 8, they added. The NDA has 293 MPs, comfortably above the majority mark of 272 in the 543-member Lok Sabha.

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The Narendra Modi Government has been rejected by the people and this is just the beginning, TMC leader Derek O’Brien said as a series of meetings in the Opposition camp continued two days after the Lok Sabha poll results were announced. 

Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee met Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in New Delhi earlier in the day. He is expected to meet Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray in Mumbai in the evening, TMC sources told PTI.

Model Code of Conduct, which came into force on March 16 with the announcement of Lok Sabha polls, lifted, the Election Commission of India announced.

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Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the Assam Lok Sabha election results show that Muslims have shifted from AIUDF to Congress.

The BJP won nine seats and its allies the AGP and UPPL one each, while the Congress won three. The AIUDF did not win a single seat. AIUDF supremo and three-time MP Badruddin Ajmal was defeated there by a record margin of 10,12,476 votes by Congress MLA Rakibul Hussain.

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A staggering 93% of the candidates who won the 2024 Lok Sabha elections are crorepatis, up from 88% in 2019, according to an analysis by poll rights body Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR). The top three wealthiest candidates are TDP’s Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani from Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur constituency with assets worth ₹5,705 crore, BJP’s Konda Vishweshwar Reddy from Telangana’s Chevella with total assets amounting to ₹4,568 crore and BJP’s Naveen Jindal from Haryana’s Kurukshetra with assets worth ₹1,241 crore.

Chief Election Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, accompanied by Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, met the President at 4:30 p.m. today. “A copy of the Notification issued by the Election Commission of India, in terms of Section 73 of the Representation of People’s Act, 1951, containing the names of the Members elected to the House of the People following the General Elections to the 18th Lok Sabha, was submitted by them to the President,” the Rashtrapati Bhavan said in a statement.

The formal process to constitute the 18th Lok Sabha will commence now. Accepting the recommendation of the Union Cabinet, the President had ordered the dissolution of the 17th Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is poised to form the government at the Centre for a third consecutive term after the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won majority in the just-concluded parliamentary polls.

For the first time, we noted that during Lok Sabha polls, PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Finance Minister commented on the stock market, said Rahul Gandhi on June 6.

“Why did the PM, Home Minister give investment advice to investors? After ‘fake’ exit polls, stock markets rose, and then crashed on June 4. Retail investors lost ₹30 lakh crore... this is the biggest stock market ‘scam’... BJP leaders had info that exit polls were wrong,” he said.

He also demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to examine the role of the Prime Minister and Home Minister on the stock market crash. “The PM said multiple times that the stock market was going to boom at a time when he had information about the results. This issue is beyond Adani. They may be involved but the issue is much beyond them,” he said.

Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said whoever forms the new government at the Centre, they should keep space for dialogue with farmers open. Mr. Tikait’s remarks came as the BJP-led NDA is set to form the next government.

“’ Andolan’ (protest) arises when there are problems in the country. We want that whoever forms the government, they should keep space for talks open,” Mr. Tikait, who is BKU spokesperson, told reporters in Muzaffarnagar.

The BKU is part of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of farmer unions which had led the 2020-21 protest against the Narendra Modi government, leading to withdrawal of three contentious agri-marketing laws.

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The JD(U), the support of which along with the TDP is crucial for the new NDA Government, will likely make a bid for “up to three” Cabinet berths, a senior leader of the Nitish Kumar-led party said on June 6.

JD(U) sources told PTI the party is keen on portfolios such as railways, rural development, agriculture, water resources and heavy industries.

Former IAS officer Sasikanth Senthil has emerged as the candidate with the highest victory margin in the recently concluded Parliamentary elections in Tamil Nadu.

Mr. Senthil, the Congress candidate for Tiruvallur Lok Sabha seat, defeated BJP’s V. Pon Balaganapathy by a whopping margin of 5,72,155 votes, according to the Election Commission.

Mr. Senthil garnered 7,96,956 votes overall while Balaganapthy managed to get 2,24,801 on the April 19 polls held in the State.

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A voter turnout of 65.79% was recorded in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections, but the final figures may change as it does not include postal ballots, the Election Commission said. At a recent press conference, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar had said a total of 64.2 crore voters had exercised their franchise.

In the 2019 parliamentary polls, the turnout was 67.40%. In 2019, India had 91.20 crore voters and out of these, 61.5 had exercised their franchise. In the 2024 polls, the size of the electorate grew to 96.88 crore voters.

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BJP ally Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi said his party has demanded a review of the Agnipath scheme and will “pursue” the caste census issue which, he asserted, was a need of the time. he also said his party’s support to the BJP was “unconditional”.

“There is anger among voters on the (short-term army recruitment) Agniveer scheme. Our party wants those shortcomings to be removed, on which people have objections,” Mr. Tyagi told reporters. He said the JD(U) is not opposed to the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) but all stakeholders should be consulted on it.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra thanked the Samajwadi Party leadership over the INDIA bloc’s performance in the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, saying the two parties’ workers unitedly fought the polls and became the sentinels of democracy.

In a post in Hindi on X, Priyanka Gandhi congratulated SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, his wife Dimple Yadav and SP Rajya Sabha MP Ram Gopal Yadav. She also congratulated the “hardworking” workers of the SP for the results in U.P.

“We all together fought a historic battle under difficult circumstances. On the ground, the workers of the Congress and the SP courageously raised their voice for the issues of the people, social justice and the Constitution. Despite all the threats and repression, they united and became the sentinels of democracy and stood at every booth,” the Congress general secretary said.

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Bihar BJP president Samrat Chaudhary on Thursday said the party will analyse the reason for its ‘poor’ show in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections in the state.

“People of Bihar gave us 75 per cent marks (12 seats) in this Lok Sabha polls…we lost 25 per cent seats (five seats). We could have easily won more Lok Sabha seats. We (NDA) were expecting to win 39-40 seats this time. We will certainly examine the reason for the party’s poor performance in seats that we lost,” Chaudhary, who is also the state Deputy Chief Minister, told reporters here.

“We will discuss what went wrong in each constituency and why we lost. The NDA, under the leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, has also started preparations for the 2025 assembly polls,” said the Bihar BJP president.

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NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Thursday met the newly-elected MPs of his party here and held interactions with them.

The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) has won eight out of the 10 Lok Sabha seats it contested in Maharashtra in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections. It fought the polls as a constituent of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) along with the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Congress.

Mr. Pawar interacted with the MPs as well as the party cadres, and took stock of his outfit’s performance in the elections.

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Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena head Eknath Shinde met his party’s newly-elected MPs.

All the seven winners from the Shiv Sena - Shrikant Shinde, Naresh Mhaske, Prataprao Jadhav, Sandipan Bhumre, Dharyasheel Mane, Ravindra Waikar and Shrirang Barne - met the CM at his official residence ‘Varsha’.

Shiv Sena MPs Sanjay Mandlik and Rahul Shewale, who lost the polls, outgoing MP Krupal Tumane, and party MLA and spokesperson Sanjay Shirsat were also present on the occasion.

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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Thursday met senior leaders of his Nationalist Congress Party to take stock of the Lok Sabha election results and the party’s performance.

After the meeting, NCP state president Sunil Tatkare told reporters that they will contest the forthcoming state assembly polls aggressively and dismissed speculations that his party MLAs were in touch with the rival NCP (SP) led by Sharad Pawar.

The state assembly elections are due later this year.

Ajit Pawar’s party contested four Lok Sabha seats in the state and bagged only one - Raigad.

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The Congress has convened a meeting of its working committee on June 8 to discuss the Lok Sabha poll result.

Votes of the election were counted on June 4.

The meeting has been convened by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and he will chair it. Party leaders will discuss the outcome of the Lok Sabha election, sources said.

The meeting will be held at 11 am at the Congress headquarters on Saturday.

Top Congress leaders, including Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, besides others leaders would participate in the deliberations.

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Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Thursday hosted a lunch for the seven elected BJP Lok Sabha MPs at Raj Niwas, officials said.

The lunch was organised by the LG to congratulate the newly-elected parliamentarians from the city, said a Raj Niwas official.

The BJP registered a clean sweep in Delhi in the May 25 Lok Sabha elections, third time in a row, winning all the seven seats by defeating AAP-Congress alliance candidates.

TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday directed all party MPs to attend NDA’s Friday meeting in New Delhi.

TDP alone won 16 MP seats in Andhra Pradesh while the NDA alliance of TDP, BJP and Janasena collectively won the lion’s share of 21 seats out of 25.

“TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday directed the party MPs to attend the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) meeting being organised in New Delhi on Friday,” a press release from the party said.

Mr. Naidu held a meeting with the available MPs at his Andhra Pradesh residence in Undavalli around 11.30 am while outstation MPs joined virtually. More than half a dozen MPs attended in person.

The Lok Sabha election mandate is against the BJP and its popular faces Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and Yogi Adityanath, CPIML leader Dipankar Bhattacharya has said.

In an interview with PTI, the CPI (Marxist-Leninst) Liberation (CPIML) general secretary also said though the results in Bihar were below the INDIA bloc’s expectation, the state played an important role in setting a narrative centred around issues like employment, and caste census.

“I think the mandate has a very clear direction. It is against the Modi regime. It is against the BJP as a party, but more particularly I think it is against the known faces of the BJP,” Mr. Bhattacharya said.

Targeting the BJP, he said the poll campaign was centred around Mr. Modi.

“In many places Mr. Modi went and said I am your PM. So, it’s a mandate against Mr. Modi, Mr. Shah, and Mr. Adiyanath in particular, especially if you look at the Uttar Pradesh results. I think this is the demand of the country that these people have lost the mandate in particular...there is no way that they should be at the helm of the government,” he said.

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After a humiliating performance in the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, two parties in the Left Front — the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) and the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) — said on June 5 that they were not in favour of any future alliance between the Left Front and the Congress.

The Left Front failed to win a single seat in the State while Congress bagged one in Malda South. The Trinamool Congress won 29 seats of the 42. The Left Front contested the Lok Sabha election from 33 seats, while the remaining nine constituencies had Congress candidates. 

AIFB state secretary Naren Chatterjee said that the alliance between the Congress and the Left in both the Lok Sabha elections of 2019 and 2024 had not worked. The AIFB lost in all three constituencies of Barasat, Purulia, and Coochbehar that they contested. They had a vote share of merely 0.24% across West Bengal. Interestingly, both Purulia and Coochbehar also had Congress candidates even though the parties were in alliance. 

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The average age of MPs elected to the 18th Lok Sabha is 56 years, a slight dip from 59 years in the 17th Lok Sabha, an analysis by PRS Legislative Research shows. 

It said 11% of the MPs are aged 40 or below, and 38% are between the age of 41 and 55. About 52% of the MPs are more than 55 years old.

The Samajwadi Party’s Pushpendra Saroj and Priya Saroj became the youngest candidates to win the Lok Sabha polls at the age of 25, while the DMK’s T R Baalu (82) was the oldest candidate to win.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s polarising speeches wherein he implied that the Opposition coalition would redistribute the wealth and reservations from Hindus and Dalits, to the Muslims is being held as a critical factor behind the BJP falling short of a simple majority. But the variability of the impact of the speeches made in the Awadh and Purvanchal belts of Uttar Pradesh in comparison to Bihar where the social fabric and subaltern equations are not much different is also a quandary to many.

The answer lies in Akhilesh Yadav patiently laying a caste siege around the BJP’s Hindutva pitch for nearly two years. The BJP crumbled under the weight of 37 seats and 33.6% vote share in the State that decides who forms the government in Delhi.

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The 18th Lok Sabha will see about 280 MPs who have been elected for the first time, an increase from the 2019 elections when 267 members were first-time MPs. 

A total of 263 newly elected MPs have previously served as members of the Lok Sabha. Additionally, 16 MPs have been members of the Rajya Sabha, and one MP has served seven terms in the Lok Sabha, according to think-tank PRS Legislative Research.

Of the re-elected MPs, eight changed their constituency, and one was re-elected from two constituencies. Nine re-elected MPs represented a different party in the 17th Lok Sabha, while eight others represented a party that split from their earlier party. Out of the 53 ministers who contested, 35 have won.

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Moody’s and Fitch said navigating far-reaching reforms may prove more difficult during a coalition-dependent third term likely for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Upsides to India’s growth prospects would be modest if reforms face hiccups, while structural weaknesses like youth unemployment and ebbing foreign investment flows pose a long-term risk, they said.

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina and Nepal PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal have confirmed they will be attending PM Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony. 

The two leaders had previously extended their greetings to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the performance of the NDA at the 18th Lok Sabha elections.

The formal announcement will be made soon a senior official told ANI.

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Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut has labelled Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis’ request to relieve him from ministerial duties as a ‘gimmick’ and blamed him for BJP’s abysmal performance in Maharashtra. 

“This is all a gimmick, which is very common in politics. Even Prime Minister Modi does the drama, sometimes he laughs and in other moments he is sad. Fadnavis is his student, doing the same drama,” he said. 

“Devendra Fadnavis is the villain of Maharashtra’s politics and the public of the State has denied his leadership. He is responsible for running the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) and the Bharatiya Janata Party in the State,” he added. He alleged that Mr. Fadnavis brought in the culture of deceit which led to their defeat.

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Following the near decimation of his NCP faction in the Lok Sabha election, Deputy CM Ajit Pawar calls for meeting of his MLAs at his Mumbai residence. Mr. Pawar’s faction managed to win just one of the four Lok Sabha seats it contested, with Mr. Pawar’s wife Sunetra Pawar biting the electoral dust in the high-stakes Baramati battle, which saw Supriya Sule emerge triumphant again. The meeting ongoing at Mr. Ajit Pawar’s Mumbai residence comes amid speculation that a number of MLAs from the Ajit faction are reportedly in contact with Sharad Pawar’s NCP (SP) faction following their party’s electoral rout.

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