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A joint report of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Odisha Election Watch has revealed that 348 candidates out of the 1283 candidates who are contesting the ongoing Assembly election in Odisha face criminal cases.The report ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain an NGOs plea to issue direction to the Election Commission (EC) to upload polling station-wise voter turnout data on its website...

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live Updates Phase 6 Voting: As of 11 am, the overall voter turnout stood at 25.76%. Among the states, West Bengal led with a turnout of 36.88%, while Uttar Pradesh saw 27.06% and Jharkhand recorded 27.8%. Bihar had a turnout of 23.67%, closely followed by Jammu & Kashmir at 23.11%. Haryana reported 22.09%, and Delhi saw 21.69% voter participation. Odisha registered the lowest turnout at 21.30%. In Phase 6 of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, a total of 889 candidates ar...

The sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections is set to witness a battle of affluence, with a significant number of candidates boasting crorepati status.

Chief electoral officers in at least five states have released these figures on their websites.

The ADR has filed an application with the Supreme Court calling for the publication of voter turnout data of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. In addition to scanned copies of Form 17C the Supreme Court has urged the ECI to publish data on votes cast.

'Due to this, our voting is also affected because doubts arise in the minds of people about whether EVMs are correct or not, voting list is fine or not,' CEC Rajiv Kumar

As per the latest numbers issued by the poll body, out of the 76.40 crore people who had the chance to vote in the first five phases, 50.72 crore exercised the right across 428 Lok Sabha seats in the country. In recent weeks, opposition parties including the Congress, Communist Party of India (Marxist), and Trinamool Congress wrote to the EC, criticising the delay in releasing the final voter turnout figures and demanding the publication of the total number of voters in each parliamentary consti...

The EC noted that authorised agents of all candidates will have access to Form 17C across all 543 Parliamentary Constituencies, with a distinct form available for each of the approximately 10.5 lakh polling stations.

In recent weeks, opposition parties including Congress, CPM, and Trinamool Congress have written to the EC, criticizing the delay in releasing the final voter turnout.