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Lok Sabha elections 2019 live updates: 64% voter turnout in phase 4

THE TIMES OF INDIA | Apr 29, 2019, 20:04:23 IST

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Lok Sabha elections 2019 live updates: 64% voter turnout in phase 4

Voting is under way in 72 Lok Sabha seats spread across 9 states. The fate of 961 candidates will be decided by about 12.79 crore voters in the fourth phase. Stay with TOI for all live updates

08:24 (IST) Apr 29

The Election Commission has set up 1.40 lakh polling booths/stations and made elaborate security arrangements for the elections

08:20 (IST) Apr 29

Polling percentage in Bihar's 5 seats at 8 am: Darbhanga- 4.10%, Ujiarpur- 3.76%, Samastipur- 3.70%, Begusarai- 2% and Munger- 4.5%

08:09 (IST) Apr 29

PM Modi's special appeal to young voters

Another phase of the General Elections begins today. I hope those voting today do so in large numbers and break the… https://t.co/z8AJyy4Nqe
— Chowkidar Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) 1556500683000

08:08 (IST) Apr 29

Stakes are high for the ruling BJP and its allies as it had swept 56 seats in 2014, leaving just two for the Congress and the rest for other opposition parties such as the Trinamool Congress (six) and the Biju Janata Dal (six)

08:03 (IST) Apr 29

People wait in queue to cast their votes at Dhamnagar Government High School in Odisha's Bhadrak district

07:33 (IST) Apr 29

Voting process halts at booth number 111 in Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur, following an EVM malfunction

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07:30 (IST) Apr 29

8 parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal are voting in the fourth phase today

07:29 (IST) Apr 29

Prominent among the constituencies going to polls today in Rajasthan is Jodhpur, where the contest is between Ashok Gehlot’s son Vaibhav and Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

07:24 (IST) Apr 29

Anil Ambani casts his vote at voting centre number 216 at GD Somani School in Cuffe Parade

07:22 (IST) Apr 29

Follow PM Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah and Congress president Rahul Gandhi on the campaign trail as voting in 4th phase is under way

Find out where they have held rallies, what they spoke and more. Read

07:20 (IST) Apr 29

Acid test for Dimple Yadav in perfume capital

Pitted against the same rival — BJP’s Subrat Pathak — once more in 2019, she and Samajwadi Party face an acid test in the perfume capital of India. Read more

07:09 (IST) Apr 29

BJP had won all five seats going to polls today — Begusarai, Darbhanga, Munger, Samastipur and Ujiarpur —in 2014

07:07 (IST) Apr 29

Bihar will today reach the halfway mark with the fourth phase of polling

07:05 (IST) Apr 29

Voters queue outside polling booth number 40 & 41 in South Mumbai parliamentary constituency

06:51 (IST) Apr 29

The six prestigious seats of Mumbai are among the 17 where voting takes place today in the final and biggest phase of elections in Maharashtra

06:48 (IST) Apr 29

With half of the 25 Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan going to the polls, the stakes are high for both Congress and BJP

BJP had won all 25 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections but Congress is likely to better its performance, especially after its win in the 2018 assembly elections

06:46 (IST) Apr 29

People have started queuing up outside the polling booths to vote early morning

06:45 (IST) Apr 29

In poll season, envoys too are studying India’s caste maths

Most foreign missions stationed in India are delving deep into India’s political labyrinth, calculating caste dynamics with as much interest as Indian political commentators. Read more

06:42 (IST) Apr 29

Read: Complete coverage of LS polls 2019

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06:29 (IST) Apr 29

In Uttar Pradesh, most of these 13 seats are seeing a direct fight between the BJP and SP-BSP alliance with Kannauj being a matter of prestige for the SP