Counting of votes began Thursday for 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra where trends are likely to start coming in by afternoon while the final results are expected in the evening, officials said.

Maharashtra: Counting begins, results of 48 seats likely by evening

Congress candidate from New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, Ajay Maken said that election results will "definitely be in favour" of the party as counting of votes polled for 17th Lok Sabha elections to take place today.

Lok Sabha polls 2019: Election results will 'definitely be in favour' of Congress, says Ajay Maken

The final result of the mega electoral exercise to elect the world's largest democracy will be announced today. Counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections will begin at 8 am and the clear picture of who will lead the nation for the next five years will emerge in the evening.

Lok Sabha polls 2019: Election Commission to start counting of votes for parliamentary polls in 542 seats at 8 am

India began counting hundreds of millions of votes in its general election today at 8:00 am, with a coalition led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party already preparing to form the next government.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2019: Counting of votes begins with BJP looking at second term

From just two seats in Lok Sabha in 1984 to win two back-to-back majority in general elections, the BJP with its right-wing Hindutva ideology has firmly taken the centre-stage of India's political landscape, displacing the Congress.

BJP's journey from just two seats in Lok Sabha in 1984 to winning two back-to-back majority

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that he respects people's verdict as he conceded defeat in the Lok Sabha election. Addressing a press conference as Modi's government returned to power with a thumping majority, Rahul Gandhi said people of India decided Narendra Modi will be the Prime Minister and ''I respect their verdict''.

Lok Sabha election results 2019: Rahul Gandhi concedes defeat, asks Congress workers not to lose hope

The Election Commission on Wednesday came up with a new IT-based initiative to provide real-time trends and results of the counting of the votes on May 23. "Trends and results will be available on the ECI website as well as on the Voter Helpline App available on both Android and iOS," said the Election Commission.

Election Commission launches a special app for voters to track election results today

Actress-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar suffered defeat on her maiden political outing. Contesting elections from the Mumbai North constituency, Urmila lost to Bhartiya Janta Party’s sure-shot bet, Gopal Chinayya Shetty.

Lok Sabha Election Result 2019: Urmila Matondkar loses from Mumbai North constituency

The BJP and its ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) are leading in 61 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, according to Election Commission trends at 3.30 pm. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading by a huge margin of over 4 lakh votes in Varanasi against Samajwadi Party candidate Shalini Yadav.

Lok Sabha election results 2019: BJP, ally maintain lead over rivals in Uttar Pradesh

Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia has lost the family bastion Guna Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh to BJP's KP Yadav in his The 48-year-old Congress leader successfully challenged the Modi wave in 2014 and was able to hold on to Guna by defeating BJP's Jaibhansingh Pawaiya by a margin of more than one lakh votes.

Jyotiraditya Scindia loses Guna Lok Sabha seat to BJP's KP Yadav

The Shiv Sena Thursday lavished praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the BJP-led NDA appeared to be retaining power comfortably, saying nobody would be able to pose a challenge before him for the next 25 years.

Lok Sabha election results 2019: Nobody can counter Modi for next 25 years, says Shiv Sena

Even though the Bharatiya Janta Party is yet to declare its win, it can be safe to say that the party has got a clean sweep in 2019 general elections. And while BJP leaders are yet to make an official announcement, congratulatory messages for PM Narendra Modi have already started pouring in- including one from superstar Rajinikanth.

Lok Sabha election results 2019: Rajinikanth congratulates PM Narendra Modi, says 'You made it'

Certain of clinching all the seven seats in the national capital, the BJP continued to dominate the trends with two of its candidates taking the lead by a margin of over 3.

Lok Sabha election results 2019: BJP certain of a clean sweep in Delhi, two candidates leading by huge margin

BJP veteran L K Advani on Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his election victory. ''Heartiest congratulations to Narendrabhai Modi for steering BJP towards this unprecedented victory in elections.

Lok Sabha election results 2019: L K Advani congratulates Modi, Shah and party workers for unprecedented victory 

Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said that Lok Sabha elections results reflect that there is a Tsunami of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the country.

Lok Sabha election results 2019: It is a BJP tsunami, says Shivraj Singh Chouhan

With trends painting a dismal picture for the Congress in Lok Sabha elections, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Thursday met Congress president Rahul Gandhi at his residence.

Lok Sabha election results 2019: Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka meet Rahul as Congress stares at defeat

The counting of votes for the Odisha Assembly elections pronounced another term for incumbent Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The Biju Janata Dal, at the moment, leads in over 100 seats in the 147-member House.

Odisha Assembly polls result: BJD registers massive gains, Naveen Patnaik set for another term as Chief Minister 

Chinese President Xi Jinping, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Russian President Vladimir Putin are among the first world leaders to congratulate Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his historic landslide victory in the Lok Sabha elections and vowed to work with him to take the bilateral ties to a new height.

Lok Sabha election results 2019: Xi, Putin and other world leaders congratulate PM Modi on victory

Prime Minister Narendra Modi led-BJP appeared set for a resounding comeback on Thursday with leads in 345 seats while the Congress trailed far behind with 90, as the counting of the votes polled in India's 17 Lok Sabha election was underway.

People of India have chosen evolution and nationalism: Amit Shah tweets, BJP leaders react to landslide win

Prakash Raj, who is contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate from Bengaluru Central, has conceded defeat but the actor has vowed to keep fighting for a "secular India".

Lok Sabha election result 2019: Prakash Raj concedes defeat, tweets 'Solid slap on my face, but will keep fighting for secular India'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took to microblogging site Twitter and posted about the landslide leads the Bharatiya Janata Party exhibited on the day of Lok Sabha counting today.

'India wins yet again,' tweets Prime Minister Modi as BJP exhibits leads on 300-plus seats, gears for Parliamentary win

Of the 12 Lok Sabha candidates who are from the erstwhile royal families, four from the BJP are leading while the others are trailing, according to the Election Commission trends.

Lok Sabha election result 2019: 4 among 12 candidates from erstwhile royal families leading

Congratulating the winners for the 2019 Lok Sabha general elections, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee called for a complete review of the results.

Congratulations to winners. But all losers are not losers: How opposition reacted to Lok Sabha 2019 election results 

The Sensex was up by 338.65 points or 0.87 per cent to 39,448.86 after its surpassed the 40,000 mark within minutes into Friday`s trade. "Indian equity market as expected touched the historic figure of 12,041 and made a new all-time high.

Markets retreat from historic highs

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