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Lok Sabha election exit polls 2019 live: NDA all set to form the next government with 296 seats, according to poll of polls

THE TIMES OF INDIA | May 19, 2019, 19:55:43 IST

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Lok Sabha election exit polls 2019 live: NDA all set to form the next government with 296 seats, according to poll of polls

Voters in 59 constituencies voted today in the last of the 7-phase Lok Sabha polls. Polling has been peaceful overall, with sporadic incidents of violence being reported from West Bengal. Stay with TOI for all updates

08:01 (IST) May 19

Several EVMs at the South City College booth near Golpark, Kolkata not working

07:59 (IST) May 19

Cricketer Harbhajan Singh waits in queue to cast his vote at a polling booth in Jalandhar's Garhi village

07:48 (IST) May 19

Phase 7: How are the 59 seats voting today distributed

07:30 (IST) May 19

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar casts his vote

07:27 (IST) May 19

Visual from a polling station at Salt Lake Sector 1 (West Bengal) ahead of voting for Lok Sabha elections

07:09 (IST) May 19

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath exercises his franchise at a polling booth in Gorakhpur

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07:02 (IST) May 19

Voting begins for 59 parliamentary constituencies in the 7th phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2019 across Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, MP, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Chandigarh

06:58 (IST) May 19

Yogi’s pride at stake in east UP stronghold

PM Modi will lock horns with BSP-backed SP candidate Shalini Yadav and Congress’ Ajay Rai in Varanasi, while on Adityanath’s turf Gorakhpur, BJP candidate and Bhojpuri actor Ravi Kishan is pitted against SP candidate Rambhual Nishad and Madhusudan Tripathi of Congress. Read full report

06:37 (IST) May 19

People queue up outside polling station no. 152/41 and 152/47 in South Kolkata to cast their votes

06:29 (IST) May 19

Who rules? India has last word today

All eyes are on the 13 seats of east UP where PM Modi, contesting from Varanasi, is expected to power BJP but where the saffron outfit is up against a test from the SP-BSP alliance. Read full report

06:20 (IST) May 19

Visual from polling booth number 326 in Raj Bhavan, Patna, where Bihar CM Nitish Kumar will cast his vote

06:14 (IST) May 19

Middle class & Muslims hold key to nine seats in Bengal

Anti-incumbency was clear in all nine seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, with both Trinamool and the Left suffering dents in their vote shares and BJP recording a surge. Read full report

06:11 (IST) May 19

Voting for 7th and last phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2019 will begin at 7am

06:05 (IST) May 19

Visual from polling booth number 25, 26, 27 at DAV Senior Secondary School, Hathi Gate in Amritsar

06:01 (IST) May 19

Phase 7: Polling will be held in all 13 seats in Punjab, 13 in UP, nine in West Bengal, eight each in Bihar and MP, four in Himachal Pradesh, three in Jharkhand and the city constituency of Chandigarh

06:01 (IST) May 19

Date of counting: May 23

06:01 (IST) May 19

An average of 66.88% voters exercised their franchise in the last six phases

06:00 (IST) May 19

EC has set up more than 1.12 lakh polling stations for smooth conduct of polls

06:00 (IST) May 19

Over 10.01 crore voters are expected to decide the fate of 918 candidates

06:00 (IST) May 19

59 seats would witness polling in the seventh phase today