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  Final voter turnout in Odisha's Patkura poll 72.75 per cent

  July 22, 2019 9:30 IST

  An estimated 71 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 6 pm on Saturday whereas the final polling percentage has now gone up as voters were still in the queue, an official of the state CEO's office said.

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  Election to Odisha's Patkura assembly seat gets underway

  July 20, 2019 11:11 IST

  Polling to Odisha's Patkura assembly seat got underway at 7 am on Saturday, after being postponed twice in the past few months, an official said.

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  Ahead of Tripura panchayat polls, BJP wins 83% of total seats unopposed

  July 12, 2019 21:34 IST

  Ahead of the panchayat elections in Tripura, the ruling BJP has won over 5,500 (83 per cent) of the 6,646 seats unopposed in the three-tier rural body polls, officials said on Friday.  

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  Election Commission announces bypolls to six Rajya Sabha seats

  June 15, 2019 20:59 IST

  In a statement, the commission clarified that the vacancies for bypolls to all Houses, including the Rajya Sabha, are considered "separate vacancies" and separate notifications are issued and separate polls are held, though the schedule can be the same.

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  Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil quits Congress

  June 04, 2019 15:26 IST

  Veteran Congressman and former Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, on Tuesday, quit as a legislator from Ahmednagar, official sources said.

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  Record victory for Modi's ministers; Puri and Alphons go down

  May 23, 2019 21:38 IST

  Narendra Modi-led BJP registered a landslide victory in the 2019 General Elections.

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  Takeaways from West Bengal Lok Sabha result 2019

  May 23, 2019 22:12 IST

  Barring some workers who were celebrating party's Kolkata South candidate Mala Roy's huge about 1.5 lakh vote lead, the mood was sombre as many senior leaders gave the miss to their usual celebratory gathering at 30B Harish Chatterjee Street.

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  BJP makes inroads into West Bengal, Odisha

  May 23, 2019 20:48 IST

  The BJP was leading in 18 of the 42 seats in West Bengal, and 9 out of 21 parliamentary constituencies in Odisha.

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  Lok Sabha Results 2019: PM remove 'chowkidar' prefix; says time to take the spirit to next level

  May 23, 2019 18:58 IST

  Modi said the word 'Chowkidar' goes from his Twitter name, "but it remains an integral part of me. Urging you all to do the same too!"

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  Smriti Irani: All you need to know about BJP's Amethi candidate in Lok Sabha Elections 2019

  May 23, 2019 18:19 IST

  Union Minister Smriti Irani is leading in Amethi constituency against Congress President Rahul Gandhi. 

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  We accept public mandate with utmost humility: Gehlot

  May 23, 2019 16:48 IST

  Rajasthan's chief minister Ashok Gehlot has acknowledged defeat in the Lok Sabha polls.

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  Lok Sabha Elections 2019: DMK-led alliance overwhelms AIADMK, bucks national trend

  May 23, 2019 16:47 IST

  As per the trends available from the counting centres, the DMK was leading in 21 places, the Congress in 8, CPI-M and CPI and VCK in two each and IUML in one seat.

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  Amit Shah leaves LK Advani behind in Gandhinagar record margin

  May 23, 2019 16:17 IST

  Amit Shah is set to break the record margin for Gandhinagar's Lok Sabha seat.

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  Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: All sections of Kerala society helped us to win: Chandy

  May 23, 2019 16:16 IST

  With over 80 per cent of votes being counted, the UDF is seen as winning in 19 seats, with the ruling CPI-M set to win just the Alappuzha seat.

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  Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Saffron all the way in Braj region of Uttar Pradesh

  May 23, 2019 15:59 IST

  Preliminary data suggests that the support for the BJP has come from all sections and cuts across caste lines. 

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  Rahul Gandhi's decisions led to opposition's downfall: CPI

  May 23, 2019 15:57 IST

  CPI's national secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan criticised Rahul Gandhi's decision, which he believes led to the downfall of opposition.

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  Mandate against opposition's selfish politics: Ram Madhav

  May 23, 2019 15:28 IST

  As BJP is leading across the country in the Lok Sabha elections, Ram Madhav  credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for party's performance in the polls.

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  Solid slap on my face, but will keep fighting for secular India: Prakash Raj after poll setback

  May 23, 2019 15:15 IST

  Prakash Raj has conceded defeat from Bengaluru Central in the Lok Sabha elections.

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  BJP leader seeks Kumaraswamy's resignation in Karnataka

  May 23, 2019 14:52 IST

  According to the latest counting trends, an upbeat Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading in 23 seats, the Congress in three and the JD-S in one.

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  BJP consolidates lead in UP, setback for SP-BSP

  May 23, 2019 14:43 IST

  In Azamgarh, Samajwadi president Akhilesh Yadav is leading over his nearest rival Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua of BJP.

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  Election Result Alert: Union Minister Gen V.K. Singh leading by over 50K votes from Ghaziabad

  May 23, 2019 12:25 IST

  Gen. V.K. Singh is leading against alliance candidate Suresh Bansal.

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  Election Result Alert: Ex-CM Harish Rawat trailing by over 1.50 lakh votes in Nainital

  May 23, 2019 12:16 IST

  BJP's Ajay Bhatt is leading in Nainital against Uttarakhand's ex-CM Harish Rawat.

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  Laddoo cake, special kamal barfi to add colour to BJP celebrations, if...

  May 23, 2019 6:52 IST

  A 7-kg laddoo-cake will be taken to the party headquarters once the results become clear.

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  Kamal Haasan urges party workers to maintain decorum, not to be drawn into violence

  May 17, 2019 8:27 IST

  Haasan had stoked a controversy on Sunday by saying "free India's first extremist was a Hindu", referring to Nathuram Godse who killed Mahatma Gandhi.

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  Lok Sabha polls, May 17: As it happened

  May 17, 2019 21:55 IST

  Ahead of the final phase of Lok Sabha election 2019, we saw BJP and Congress have a go at each other. Amit Shah and Prime Minister Modi addressed a press conference where Modi thanked the people of the country. At the same time, Congress President Rahul Gandhi also addressed the reporters claiming the Congress Party will end Narendra Modi's time in office on May 23.

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  The image is fake: Oxford Dictionaries calls out Rahul Gandhi on 'modilie'

  May 16, 2019 21:42 IST

  Rahul Gandhi had claimed on Wednesday that a new word, modilie, had been added to English dictionary.

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  Is polarisation helping BJP in West Bengal?

  May 16, 2019 15:06 IST

  The state, which has witnessed the most bitter electioneering this time between the TMC and the Bharatiya Janata Party, will have polling on the remaining nine of the 42 Lok Sabha seats on Sunday, the seventh and last phase of elections

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  EC's integrity at stake, says Chandrababu Naidu

  May 16, 2019 14:38 IST

  Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has termed as 'disturbing' the Election Commission's action cutting short the election campaign in West Bengal by a day and has said that the poll panel's integrity is at stake.