Mumbai North Central LS Election Result 2024 Live: Varsha Gaikwad defeats Ujwal Nikam
The Counting of votes for Mumbai North Central LS seat along with 540 other seats that went to polls in 07 phases of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, also known as Parliamentary Elections or General Elections, has started at 08:00 am Tuesday June 04, 2024
[Varsha Gaikwad in a file photo with Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi]
Mumbai North Central LS Election Result 2024 Live: Counting of votes to decide the fate of Varsha Gaikwad of Congress, Ujwal Bikam of BJP and other candidates contesting from the Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra is underway.
As per the ECI data at 06:35 PM, Varsha Gaikwad polled 440,303 votes as against 424,072 votes bagged by Ujwal Nikam.
Varsha Gaikwad, Mumbai Congress President, defeated Nikam by a comfortable margin.
Final Vote Tally
According to the ECI result data released Tuesday, Varsha Eknath Gaikwad polled a total of 445,545 votes.
Her nearest rival Ujwal Nikam of BJP got 429,031 votes. Gaikwad won the seat by 16,514 votes.
Ujwal Nikam's candidature from the Mumbai seat by the BJP had sparked a huge controversy as the Congress and other parties accused the former of hiding facts from the court regarding the crucial details about former Maharashtra ATS Chief Hemand Karkare killing.
05:00 AM: 2024 Lok Sabha Election - All eyes on vote count, result
The Counting of votes for all 541 seats which went to poll in 07 phases of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, also known as Parliamentary Elections or General Elections, will start at 08:00 am Tuesday June 04, the Election Commission of India said.
Earlier, counting of Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System (ETPBS) and Postal Ballots used to be taken up first. Later on votes stored in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were counted.
But for the 2024 elections, the Election Commission has ordered simultaneous counting of Postal Ballots and EVMs.
The counting of Postal Ballots this election is also likely to take more time as number of postal votes are more because of the initiative to cast votes of over 80 years of age at their homes.
After counting of the votes, the counting personnel will then randomly select five EVMs from each Assembly segments for matching with VVPAT slips as directed by the Supreme Court.
The final election results are likely to be declared by late in the evening Tuesday or early morning Wednesday. The trends however will start coming by 08:30 to 08:45 am today.
The 2024 Lok Sabha elections spanned seven phases: April 19, April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20, May 25, and June 1. Twenty states including Delhi voted in a single-phase.
The process for the 2024 Parliamentary election, also known as Lok Sabha Chunav, started with the first Phase of polling on April 19, 2024. Polling for the 7th and last phase of the 2024 general elections was held on June 01, 2024.
Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir polled in 5 phases, while Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and West Bengal voted in all seven phases of voting. Polling in Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tripura, and Manipur were held in two phases. Chhattisgarh and Assam saw 3 phases of voting, and Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, and Jharkhand had 4 phases of polling.
Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament has a total of 545 members. Of them 543 are elected while 02 members are nominated by the President of India. Polling for the 2024 elections was held for 541 seats as the BJP candidate in Surat, Gujarat won unopposed.
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