Vellore Lok Sabha elections: Counting of votes underway
DMK's DM Kathir Anand on Friday won the Vellore Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu defeating his nearest rival AIADMK's ally A C Shanmugam by a narrow victory margin of 8,141 votes.
The DMK candidate polled 4,85,340 votes and garnered a 47.3 per cent vote share as the party wrested the seat from its arch rival which had won the seat in 2014.
The lead kept changing before the DMK candidate was declared elected at the end of the counting of votes in the poll held on August 5.
Shanmugam, who contested the poll on the AIADMK's two-leaves symbol, polled 4,77,199 votes and got 46.51 per cent share, the Election Commission announced.
The poll to the Vellore Lok Sabha seat, originally scheduled to be held in April along with the other 38 constituencies in Tamil Nadu, was cancelled following seizure of huge cash in the runup to the election.
HIGHLIGHTS:
05:00 pm: DMK's D M Kathir Anand wins the Vellore Lok Sabha seat
01:00 pm: DMK candidate DM Kathir Anand maintains the lead after 11th round of counting. AIADMK candidate AC Shanmugam is trailing by 14,214 votes.
12:30 pm: DMK pushes AIADMK to 2nd spot in Vellore, leads by 7,985 votes.
11:30 am: AIADMK's A.C. Shanmugam votes cross 2 lakh.
10:30 am: AIADMK leads by 11,890 votes over DMK.
09:45 am: AIADMK candidate A.C. Shanmugam leads over his nearly DMK rival Kathir Anand by 913 votes at the end of the first round of counting.
08.00 am: Counting of votes in 6 assembly segments begins.
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