(4 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New Delhi – 4 June 2024
1. Various of election officials counting
2. Close of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) displaying figures of candidates
3. Various of election officials preparing to count EVM’s
4. Tracking of EVM’s kept on table
5. Wide of officials counting
6. Election official closing box containing EVM
7. Security outside counting centre
8. Various of election officials preparing to count
9. EVM’s kept in boxes
10. People being checked before they enter counting centre
11. Various of security outside counting centre
STORYLINE:
India began counting more than 640 million votes Tuesday in the world’s largest democratic exercise, which was widely expected to return Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a third term after a decade in power.
The 6-week election was seen as a referendum on Modi. If the 73-year-old wins, it will only be the second time an Indian leader has retained power for a third term after Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister.
Exit polls on Saturday by major television channels projected a comfortable win for Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies over a broad opposition alliance led by the Congress party and its main campaign leader, Rahul Gandhi.
Indian television channels have had a mixed record in the past in predicting election results.
Nearly 970 million people, more than 10% of the world’s population, were eligible to vote. Turnout was around 66% on average across the seven phases, according to official data.
The tallying of votes at counting centers in each of the 543 constituencies where polls were held could stretch into the evening before a final result is declared by the Election Commission of India.
But leads will start to emerge earlier, which will give an idea of where the results may be headed.
AP video shot by Shonal Ganguly
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