01:34 PMBhojpuri star-turned politician Manoj Tiwari wins from Northeast Delhi
01:29 PMBJP leader Uma Bharti wins from Jhansi
01:27 PMLok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar loses from Sasaram, Bihar
01:25 PMPrime Minister Manmohan Singh calls Narendra Modi and congratulates him on his party's victory in the Lok Sabha elections. Manmohan Singh will resign tomorrow
01:24 PMBJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi leading by over 78,000 votes against Congress candidate Sriprakash Jaiswal in Kanpur
01:21 PM"We are winning in areas where we have never won before. Credit goes to Narendra Modi, RSS:"
- L K Advani
01:15 PM"I wish the new government well; I wish the new Prime Minister well"
- Jayalalithaa
01:08 PMBJP's Harsh Vardhan wins by more than 1 lakh votes from Chandni Chowk constituency in Delhi. He defeats Congress's Kapil Sibal and AAP's Ashutosh
01:03 PMAll India tally: 541/543 seats
01:02 PM"Thank the people of Tamil Nadu who gave us this great victory"
- AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa
01:02 PM"It is BJP's victory; It will be the Prime Minister's prerogative to choose who will be in his Cabinet"
- Sushma Swaraj
12:58 PM"We have heart to bear anything"
- DMK
12:57 PMAAP puts up a dismal show across the country. The party is routed in Delhi and other states; the saving grace is Punjab.
12:52 PMBJP's Ananth Kumar defeats Congress's Nandan Nilekani by winning sixth consecutive time from Bangalore South
12:49 PMLatest trends from Uttarakhand: BJP 5, Congress 0
12:48 PMBJP supporters celebrate their party's win
12:46 PMNational tally at 12.40pm via Times Now: NDA 324, UPA 75, Others 142
12:44 PMNarendra Modi seeks his mother Hiraba Modi's blessings
12:43 PMIndia has won, achchhe din aane wale hai, Modi tweets
12:43 PMLatest trends from Himachal Pradesh (4): BJP 4, Congress 0
12:41 PM"I had said NDA will cross 300, today it is happening"
- BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad
12:38 PM"I had said on the first day that Jaitley has nothing to do with Punjab, he is an unknown factor in Amritsar"
- Capt Amarinder Singh
12:36 PMKarnataka: Union railway minister M Mallikarjuna Kharge wins in Gulbarga by a margin of 51000 votes
12:31 PMThe AIADMK is leading in all the three Lok Sabha seats in Chennai. In Chennai Central, former minister Dayanidhi Maran is trailing by 15,270 votes against AIADMK's S R Vijakumar. AIADMK's T G Venkatesh Babu is leading by 13,023 votes in Chennai North constituency. In Chennai South, AIADMK's J Jayavardhan is leading by 13,635 votes.
12:29 PMThe new Prime Minister could be sworn in on May 21: Times Now
12:18 PMNarendra Modi in conversation with his mother at her residence. (ANI photo)
12:13 PM"India has won! Bharat ki vijay. Achche din aane wale hai..."
- Narendra Modi's tweet
12:09 PMIt is a collective failure, Congress concedes
12:07 PMFormer railway minister Dinesh Trivedi of Trinamool Congress wins from Barrackpur constituency by 1,01,373 votes
12:06 PMNational tally at 12pm via Times Now: NDA 322, UPA 75, Others 141
12:04 PMLatest trends from Maharashtra (48): BJP 43, Congress 5, MNS 0, Others 0
12:02 PMNCP sitting MP and daughter of NCP leader Sharad Pawar trailing in Baramati
12:00 PMLatest trends from Tripura (2): CPM 2, BJP 0, Cong 0, Others 0
12:00 PMAjit Ninan's take on Narendra Modi win
12:00 PMLatest trends from Odisha (21): BJD 18, BJP 2, Congress 1
11:57 AMLatest trends from Madhya Pradesh (29): BJP 26, Congress 3
11:55 AMLatest trends from Rajasthan (25): BJP 25, Congress 0
11:55 AMBJP candidate Hari Manjhi establishes a winning lead of about 33000 votes from the Gaya reserved constituency over his RJD rival Ramji Manjhi at the end of third round of counting.
11:54 AMLatest trends from Chhattisgarh (11): BJP 10, Congress 1
11:53 AMBollywood celebrities react on Modi’s victory
11:51 AMKarnataka BJP president Prahlad Joshi wins in Dharwad by a margin of 50,000 votes
BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi wins from Varanasi. He earlier won from Vadodara by a huge margin
11:49 AMLatest from Amethi
Rahul Gandhi leads by a slim margin ahead of BJP's Smriti Irani and AAP's Kumar Vishwas
11:47 AMKarti Chidambaram, son of Union finance minister P Chidambaram trailing from Sivaganga
11:44 AMSenior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari wins from Nagpur
11:43 AMNational tally at 11.20am via Times Now: NDA 306, UPA 74, Others 146
11:31 AMLATEST UPDATE: BJP sweeps Rajasthan, Gujarat, Delhi and Uttarakhand
11:30 AMBJP candidate General V K Singh wins from Ghaziabad
11:27 AMCongress's Meira Kumar is trailing from Sasaram in Bihar
11:26 AML K Advani congratulates Narendra Modi
11:21 AMAAP leads in 4 seats in Punjab
11:16 AMAll India tally (526/543)
11:15 AMPoonam Mahajan of BJP at the end of round two leads by 26,129 votes over Priya Dutt of Congress in Mumbai North central. Official figures show Mahajan at 54,240 and Dutt at 28,111.
11:13 AMCelebrations begin at BJP headquarters in Gujarat
11:11 AMAll seven Congress ministers in UPA government from UP trailing
Sri Prakash trailing in Kanpur, Jitin Prasad in Dharauhra, RPN Singh in Kushinagar, Pradeep Aditya Jain in Jhansi, Beni Prasad Verma in Gonda, Salman Khursid in Farrukhabad and PL Punia in Baranaki.
11:10 AMBJP's Kirron Kher wins from Chandigarh, defeating AAP's Gul Panag and Cong's Pawan Kumar Bansal
11:10 AMBJP candidate Hari Manjhi establishes an impressive lead of about 12000 votes from the Gaya reserved constituency over his RJD rival Ramji Manjhi at the end of first round of counting.
11:08 AMPraful Patel of NCP is trailing from Bhandara-Gondia by 600 votes
11:08 AMAssam chief minister Tarun Gogoi to resign taking full responsibility for Congress’s defeat in state
10:57 AMSP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav trails behind Ramakant Yadav in Azamgarh
10:53 AM"Trends indicate it is a landslide"
- BJP president Rajnath Singh
10:51 AMJUST IN: BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi wins from Vadodara
10:47 AMLatest from the high-stakes battle at Varanasi
Narendra Modi leads in Varanasi with 38,000 votes. Kejriwal on second spot with 13,000 votes
10:46 AMJUST IN: BJP candidate Narendra Modi leads by more than 4,20,000 votes from Vadodara in Gujarat
10:45 AM10:47am: DMK’s A Raja trails by 13,514 votes in Nilgiri constituency
10:44 AMNational tally at 10.30am: NDA – 293, UPA – 77, Others – 144
10:43 AMWill Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi resign?
10:38 AMPMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss leads by a margin of 13,196 votes in Dharmapuri
10:38 AMRajnath Singh and Venkaiah Naidu call up Narendra Modi to congratulate him
10:36 AM"I take full responsibility. I will resign"
- Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi
10:31 AM"I imagined a worst case scenario but early trends are worse than that. Let's hope this trend reverses as the count progresses"
- Omar Abdullah tweets
10:31 AMBJP's B S Yeddyurappa wins from Shimoga in Karnataka
10:25 AMWatch: BJP leads in all 7 seats in Delhi
10:21 AMIn Shimla parliamentary seat, BJP candidate Virender Kashyap is leading by around 7000 votes. Prestige of Congress leader and Himachal chief minister Virbhadra Singh is at stake here as it is believed that in this state, instead of the Congress candidate, people vote for Virbhadra.
10:15 AMLatest update: BJP's Varun Gandhi wins from Sultanpur in UP
10:09 AMMDMK leader Vaiko is lagging behind AIADMK candidate Radhakrishnan in Virudhunagar constituency
10:06 AMNational Conference's Farooq Abdullah trailing from Srinagar
10:05 AMAuthorities in Faizabad, Maharajganj, Hamirpur and half a dozen other districts of Uttar Pradesh stopped the media from live coverage at the counting stations without any explanation. Security personnel asked the media to leave the venue without any explanation. Senior officials remain out of reach for any comment.
10:02 AMFirst result from Karnataka
Nalin Kumar Kateel (BJP) retains his Dakshina Kannada seat, wins by over 1 lakh votes against Janardhan Poojary
09:57 AMBJP's Rao Inderjit Singh leading in Gurgaon. AAP's Yogendra Yadav trailing
09:55 AMNandan Nilekani of Congress leaves counting centre in a huff after the margin of lead of his rival, Ananthkumar from BJP, grows by over 10,000 votes in Karnataka
09:54 AMAll sitting MPs of Congress trailing in Gujarat
09:49 AMAll India tally: 417/543
09:49 AMLatest from Delhi
BJP is leading in all seven seats in Delhi
09:47 AMIn Bangalore South, BJP's Ananth Kumar leads, Congress's Nandan Nilekani trails
09:43 AMLatest from Karnataka: BJP has regained control over coastal belt, touted as Hindutva laboratory with all the 3 candidates leading by a huge margin.
BJP candidates were leading in 11 seats while ally Shiv Sena nominees were ahead in six seats in Maharashtra, as per early trends available.
09:40 AMSensex hits 25,000, up nearly 1100 points, as leads show NDA set to form government
09:39 AMUttar Pradesh trends available for 72 seats. BJP 50, Congress 7, SP 10 and BSP 5
09:32 AMBJP's Varun Gandhi leads in Sultanpur, UP
RLD's Ajit Singh loses in Baghpat, UP
09:29 AMUnion minister V Narayanasamy took early lead in the Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency, officials said.
09:27 AMCelebrations begin at BJP headquarters in Delhi
09:21 AMIn Nilgiri constituency, former minister and DMK's A Raja, accused in 2G spectrum scam, is trailing by 4,000 votes against AIADMK’s C Gopalakrishnan.
09:20 AMWatch: After initially leading, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is now trailing in Amethi. He is contesting against BJP's Smriti Irani and AAP's Kumar Vishwas
09:17 AMNational tally (leads/trends) at 9.15am: NDA - 149, UPA - 56, Others - 74
09:17 AMLatest from the stock markets
Markets open at record high as BJP establishes big lead. Sensex opens 900 points higher, Nifty up 4%
09:15 AMBJP's Meenakshi Lekhi leading from New Delhi constituency
09:14 AMUttar Pradesh: Congress - 5, BJP- 19, SP - 4, BSP - 3, Others - 0 at 9.10am
09:12 AMBJP candidate leads in Rajgarh, Cong nominee in Mandla in Madhya Pradesh
BJP's Sushma Swaraj is leading by a margin of 3,552 votes against Laxman Singh of Congress from Vidisha seat in Madhya Pradesh.
09:09 AMBJP's Sushma Swaraj is leading by a margin of 3,552 votes against Laxman Singh of Congress from Vidisha seat in Madhya Pradesh.
09:06 AMLatest from Tamil Nadu
AIADMK is leading in 13 seats and Congress and BJP are leading in one seat each
09:04 AMShiromani Akali Dal candidate Ranjeet Singh Brahmpura is leading over his Congress rival in Kahdoor Sahib Lok Sabha seat of Punjab.
09:03 AMAll India tally: 180/543
The BJP took a big lead as millions of votes polled in the Lok Sabha election were counted on Friday, with its candidates racing ahead of all others in 71 of the 122 seats.
09:00 AMBJP candidate BS Yeddyurappa leads from Shimoga in Karnataka.
08:58 AMUnion minister of state for PMO and Congress candidate V Narayanasamy is leading by 1,950 votes in Puducherry parliamentary constituency
08:55 AMBJP's Arun Jaitley is leading against Congress's Capt Amarinder Singh from Amritsar
08:54 AMNational tally (leads/trends) at 8.50am: NDA - 62, UPA - 30, Others - 27
08:52 AMAll India tally: 97/543 as on 8:45am
08:51 AMBJP candidate Poonam Madam from Jamnagar in Gujarat is leading against her uncle Vikram Madam of the Congress
08:51 AMNational tally (leads/trends) at 8.45am: NDA - 49, UPA - 25, Others - 23
The ruling Congress-led UDF is leading in eight seats and the LDF in two seats as the counting is progressing in all the 20 seats.
08:48 AMCongress candidate Nagma leading in Meerut
08:44 AMUDF leads in 15 out of 20 seats in Kerala
08:43 AM"I am very confident under the leadership of Narendra Modi. We will win both Bharat and Bangalore. It's everywhere NaMo NaMo. I am very confident that people will elect me."
- BJP candidate from South Bangalore - Ananthkumar
08:43 AMNational tally (leads/trends) at 8.40am: NDA - 40, UPA - 24, Others - 19
08:41 AMActress-turned-politician Hema Malini leading from Mathura
BJP candidate O Rajagopal is leading by ten votes in the high profile Thiruvananthapuram constituency.
08:38 AMLatest on the major players
Advani leads in Gandhinagar; Modi leads in Vadodara, Varanasi; Mulayam Singh leads in Mainpuri
08:36 AMNational tally (leads/trends) at 8.35am: NDA - 29, UPA - 21, Others - 14
08:36 AMLatest trends: Rahul Gandhi leading in Amethi, Sonia Gandhi leading in Rae Bareli
08:35 AMBJP's Uma Bharti is leading in Jhansi
08:32 AMHeavyweight tracker
Kapil Sibal is trailing from Chandni Chowk in New Delhi, while BJP's Harsh Vardhan is leading from the same constituency.
08:31 AMDMK candidate in Ramanathapuram Lok Sabha constituency Mohammed Jaleel dies ahead of counting of votes on Friday.
08:29 AMHeavyweight tracker
Arvind Kejriwal trailing from Varanasi, Sushma Swaraj leading from Vidisha
08:23 AM"We are confident that BJP will get full majority"
- Prakash Javadekar
08:22 AMNational tally (leads/trends) at 8.20am: NDA - 8, UPA - 3, Others - 2
08:21 AMFormer Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda leading in Hassan, Karnataka
08:21 AMBJP's Pankaj Choudhary leading from Maharajganj
08:20 AMSP candidate and chief minister Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav has taken an early lead in Kannauj
08:20 AMAll India tally as on 8:15am
08:18 AMIn Uttar Pradesh, BJP leads in 2, SP leads in 1.
08:17 AMBJP's VK Singh is leading in Ghaziabad.
08:16 AMNational tally (leads/trends) at 8.15am: NDA - 6, UPA – 2, Others - 1
08:13 AMWatch: Counting of votes is on across the country. The BJP-led NDA is tipped to win.
08:12 AMEVMs being opened, counting begins in Vadodara (ANI photo)
08:07 AMFirst leads come in: BJP leads in 1 seat in Karnataka, 1 seat in Kerala
08:04 AMCounting has begun at nearly 1,000 centres. 1.8 million EVMS are to be counted. Fate of nearly 8,000 candidates to be decided.
