Tag: Elections

Labour Party is advantageously placed with 20 per cent lead in opinion polls By Ben Chacko British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gambled on a snap general election, announcing on Wednesday a poll likely to bring down the curtain on 14 years of miserable Tory rule. He surprised Westminster by ...

ECI sets up 2338 polling stations across constituency SRINAGAR, May 23: The fate of 20 candidates will be decided by over 18.36 lakh voters of 03 Anantnag- Rajouri Lok Sabha seat in the last phase of Lok Sabha elections for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir to be ...

Srinagar: The election campaigning period in 3-Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary constituency culminated on Thursday. Effective from 6 PM on May 23rd, 2024 which is 48 hours ending with the poll close time, the campaign period shall end in the Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary Constituency and restrictions imposed across the district under Section 144 ...

Indian voters don’t care about ideology and are not particularly attached to parties. They “vote their caste” rather than cast their vote. They also rarely coordinate well in picking candidates, leading to tremendous volatility in election outcomes. Those are just some of the long-standing stereotypes that recent research on ...

In January, Home Minister Amit Shah, addressing a function for Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service Officers, said terrorist incidents were down by 66 per cent in the erstwhile state since the abrogation of Article 370. And that civilian deaths were down by 81 per cent, and by 48 per ...

The fifth phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Monday recorded an estimated voter turnout of 60.48% according to data on the Election Commission’s Voter Turnout App as of Tuesday morning.The Election Commission has not yet released the final turnout figures for the fifth phase. The polling percentage in ...

More than 53 million people voted on Monday in the fifth and smallest phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha polls as 49 seats across six states and two Union territories recorded a turnout of 60.5%, compared to 62.4% from five years ago. This indicated an uptick in voting in ...

Jammu, May 20: Lieutenant Governor Shri Manoj Sinha congratulated the people and all the stakeholders on the high voter turnout in Baramulla Parliamentary Constituency.In a tweet, the Lt Governor said:“High voter turnout, over 58% in Baramulla Parliamentary Constituency, is very encouraging and shows the people's determination and unwavering faith ...

Voting in Phase 5 of the Lok Sabha elections Monday saw 57.38 per cent voter turnout with the highest polling percentage in West Bengal (73%) and the lowest in Maharashtra (48.88%), said the Election Commission. Maharashtra voted for 13 constituencies, including six in Mumbai, with seven seats going to ...

Voting for the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections began on Monday in 49 seats across six states and two Union territories.Polling is underway in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 13 in Maharashtra, seven in West Bengal, five each in Bihar and Odisha, three in Jharkhand and one ...