Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged every voter to ‘count their votes’ as polling began in the sixth and final phase of Lok Sabha elections across 58 seats in seven states and one Union Territory.”

“In their official Twitter account, they said, ‘Democracy flourishes when its people engage actively in the electoral process.'”

He wrote, “I urge all eligible voters to participate in large numbers in the sixth phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Every vote counts, so make sure to cast yours too! Democracy thrives when its people actively engage in the electoral process.”

The Prime Minister “especially” urged women voters and young voters to participate in large numbers in the elections.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 6

Today, voting is underway for the eighth phase in Bihar and West Bengal, seven seats in Delhi, ten in Haryana, four in Jharkhand, fourteen in Uttar Pradesh, and the final seat in Jammu and Kashmir – Anantnag-Rajouri, where polling has been relocated, until the third to sixth phases.

Odisha will also vote for 42 assembly constituencies and six Lok Sabha seats.

By the end of today, elections will be completed in 486 out of 543 Lok Sabha seats, and voting will conclude in Haryana, Delhi, and Jammu and Kashmir.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, prior to today’s elections in 58 constituencies, PM Modi’s BJP alone had won in 40 constituencies. Its NDA allies secured victory in five additional seats.

Opposition parties in the India Bloc – Trinamool Congress, National Conference, and Samajwadi Party – had won five seats collectively, while the Congress did not secure any seats.

The Bahujan Samaj Party, led by former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati, which had contested the 2019 elections in alliance with Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party and is now outside the alliance, along with Naveen Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal, also won some seats.