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  • Wayanad Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIve Results |

    Wayanad Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 Live: The scenic and densely forested Wayanad constituency, one of Kerala’s 20 seats, went to the polls along with the rest of the state on April 26. Established as a separate constituency in 1980, Wayanad was carved out from Kozhikode and Kannur districts. Comprising three municipal towns—Kalpetta, Mananthavady, and Sultan Bathery—and three assembly constituencies, Wayanad is witnessing a keenly contested election.

    Wayanad Election Results 2024 Live Updates

    1: 04 PM: Rahul Gandhi is poised for a historic win in the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, having secured a commanding lead of over 200,000 votes against his opponents.

    12: 04 PM: Leading with a significant margin of 143,081 votes is Rahul Gandhi from the Indian National Congress. Trailing behind with a deficit of 143,081 votes is Annie Raja from the Communist Party of India.

    11: 23 AM: Annie Raja of the Communist Party of India trails with 74,232 votes. Following her is K Surendran of the Bharatiya Janata Party, with 43,436 votes, trailing by 130,836 votes. 

    10: 58 AM: Rahul Gandhi from the Indian National Congress is presently in the lead in the election, securing 174,272 votes, with a substantial margin of 100,040 votes ahead of the runner-up.

    9: 41 AM: Recent reports from Wayanad depict a tough situation for Annie Raja, who currently holds the second position. The INC contender, Rahul Gandhi, is in the lead with a margin of 34,249 votes over Annie Raja as the counting continues.

    9:28 AM: During the 2014 elections, MI Shanavas of the Congress secured victory with 377,035 votes, whereas Sathyan Mokeri representing the CPM garnered 356,165 votes.

    8: 57 AM: Wayanad Election Result 2024 Live: 2019 General Elections Recap, Rahul Gandhi (Congress) won with 706,367 votes.

    8: 19 AM: Rahul Gandhi is leading the count as soon as the count began….

    7: 59 AM: Rahul Gandhi, a leader of the Congress party, is running for Parliament from two constituencies: Wayanad and Raebareli. After losing the traditional stronghold of Amethi in 2019 and securing a seat in Lok Sabha from Wayanad, Gandhi is striving to uphold the party’s remaining stronghold in the state. His opponents in Wayanad include Dinesh Pratap Singh and K. Surendran from the BJP, along with Annie Raja from the CPI-M.

    7: 21 AM: Shashi Tharoor, a three-time Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram representing the Congress party, is in a challenging electoral battle against Rajeev Chandrasekhar of the BJP and Panniyan Ravindran of the CPI-M. Exit polls suggest a closely contested race ahead.

    7: 12 AM:  Wayanad is one of the 20 parliamentary constituencies in Kerala. The counting of votes for the Wayanad, Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seats begins shortly.

    6.48 AM: Counting of votes to start from 8 am. Postal ballots are to be counted first and EVMs to be opened around 8.30 am or 8.45 am.

    Background Details Of The Seat

    Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is contesting from Wayanad for the second time, facing competition from BJP state president K Surendran and the ruling Left’s Annie Raja. In the 2019 elections, after losing Amethi to Union minister Smriti Irani, Rahul Gandhi chose to contest from Wayanad, winning by over 7 lakh votes and securing a vote share of 64.7%.

    Reflecting on previous elections, Congress leader M.I. Shanavas clinched victory in Wayanad in 2009 and 2014. In 2009, Shanavas won by a margin of 4.10 lakh votes and a vote share of 49.8%, repeating the feat in 2014 with over 3.77 lakh votes and a vote share of 41.2%. In 2014, the CPM’s Sathyan Mokeri secured only 356,165 votes.

    According to the exit poll for the Wayanad Lok Sabha 2024 election, Congress is poised to win favourably in this state, but BJP has also made an impression. As per the Axis My India-India Today exit poll, INC-UDF is expected to secure 18 seats, while BJP is projected to win 2-3 seats. Rahul Gandhi is anticipated to retain the Wayanad seat.

  • Chennai Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Results |

    Chennai South Lok Sabha 2024 Results Live

    The principal candidates in the Lok Sabha 2024 elections are the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Tamilisai Soundararajan, the DMK’s Thamizhachi Thangapandian, and the AIADMK’s J Jayavardhan (BJP).

    Chennai South, Central, And North Election Results 2024 Live Updates

    9: 03 AM: In the initial trends following the commencement of counting at 8 am, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) candidate for the Chennai Central Lok Sabha constituency is ahead of candidates from the BJP and AIADMK.

    8: 59 AM: Kalanidhi Veeraswamy, the DMK candidate, emerged victorious from this seat in the 2019 Chennai North Lok Sabha elections.

    8: 47 AM: T. Sumathy, representing the DMK, emerged victorious from the seat during the 2019 Chennai South Lok Sabha elections.

    8: 22 AM: So stay tuned as we bring you the quickest updates from the vote counting in the Chennai North seat.

    8: 17 AM: Typically, the Election Commission of India employs the initial round of counting to tabulate all postal ballots within a constituency. Consequently, the initial trends may take some time to materialize and occasionally may differ from the final outcome. Therefore, stay tuned as we provide you with prompt updates from the vote counting process in the Chennai South constituency.

    8: 03 AM: The vote counting process for Chennai has officially commenced at 8 AM.

    7: 53 AM: During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, DMK secured victory in the Chennai North constituency. Kalanidhi Veeraswamy of the party was elected as the Member of Parliament, receiving 590,986 votes. The runner-up was Alagaapuram Mohanraj from DMDK, who garnered 129,468 votes.

    7: 30 AM: During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, DMK secured victory in the Chennai South seat. T. Sumathy of the party won as the Member of Parliament, garnering 564,872 votes. The runner-up was J. Jayavardhan from AIADMK, who received 302,649 votes.

    7: 15 AM: In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Dayanidhi Maran from DMK won in Chennai Central with 448,911 votes, while Sam Paul from PMK came in second with 147,391 votes.

    6.49 AM: Counting of votes to start from 8 am. Postal ballots are to be counted first and EVMs to be opened around 8.30 am or 8.45 am.

    Chennai Central Lok Sabha 2024 Results Live

    There are 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu, including the Chennai Central constituency. The state’s one-phase Lok Sabha elections are scheduled for April 19, with the counting deadline falling on June 4.

    Dayanidhi Maran of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), backed by its ally the Congress party, and Vinoj P Selvam, state secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will compete in the Central Chennai constituency. B Parthasarathy is the candidate put forth by late actor Vijayakanth’s Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam party (DMDK), which is running as an ally of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK).

     

    Chennai North Lok Sabha 2024 Results Live

    The North Chennai Lok Sabha constituency, which includes Thiruvottiyur, Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar, Perambur, Kolathur, Thiru Vi Ka Nagar, and Royapuram, is a highly populous and industrialized area.

    Kolathur is notable because M K Stalin, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, and the president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) represent it in the state Assembly.

    Background Details Of The Seats

    The Chennai South Lok Sabha seat is located in Tamil Nadu and consists of six assembly segments: Velachery, Sholinganallur, Mylapore, Saidapet, T Nagar, and Virugambakkam. It also includes portions of the districts of Chennai and Kancheepuram. It is one of the state’s most densely inhabited districts, with around 20 lakh voters living in its urban areas. ‘Sumathy’ Thamizhachi Thangapandian, a member of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), is the constituency’s current MP. She was the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (AIADMK) successor to Dr. J Jayavardhan.

    Key leader Dayanidhi Maran is running for office for a fourth time in Central Chennai, a stronghold of the ruling DMK, after defeating Sam Paul of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) handily in 2019. Against Paul’s 1,46,813 votes, Maran received an astounding 4,47,150 votes. Dr. R Karthikeyan, an actor-politician who lost his 2019 attempt, is running for reelection with actor-party Naam Tamilar Katchi.

    The populace of Chennai North Lok Sabha constituency is mostly concerned with infrastructure enhancements, developmental projects, and periodic flooding. DMK’s Dr. Kalanidhi Veeraswamy is seeking re-election; in 2019, he won the seat by beating AIADMK’s TG Venkatesh Babu with a significant vote share of 62 per cent. However, this time, issues like industrial pollution and floods could mar the DMK’s prospects.

  • Kevin Spacey to make first film cameo following sexual assault allegations in Italian indie project

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Actor Kevin Spacey is set to make a movie comeback with Italian independent project “L’uomo Che Disegno Dio”.

    The low-budget film will be Spacey’s first acting gig since he went through a sudden downfall in his career after a number sexual assault allegations surfaced against him during the #MeToo movement in 2017.

    According to Variety, Spacey is on board to make a cameo in the Franco Nero-directed film.

    The film’s producer Louis Nero said Spacey would feature in a small role as a police detective.

    Franco Nero will play the lead role.

    Written by Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero’s wife, the story follows “the rise and fall of a blind artist who has the extraordinary gift of making true-to-life portraits just by listening to human voices.”

    Spacey was fired from his starring role in Netflix’s “House of Cards” in November 2017 as sexual assault and harassment allegations against him mounted, after Anthony Rapp claimed that the actor behaved inappropriately with him when he was 14-years-old.

    Almost 20 men working with the Old Vic, the London Theater at which Spacey was the artistic director, reported allegations of sexual misconduct against him.

    Rapp’s claims prompted Spacey to issue a statement where he said he had no memory of the incident but apologised for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.

    The 60-year-old actor also came out as a gay in the statement, which drew further criticism from people.

    Spacey has till now denied accusations by more than a dozen men, including Rapp.

    The actor’s last movie outing was 2018’s “Billionaire Boys Club”.