Lok Sabha Elections 2024: In 2019, Congress won just 8 of 57 seats voting in phase 7 polling today, BJP bagged 25

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Narendra Modi, across 57 seats in eight states and Union Territories in the last and final phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024. In the seventh phase, all seats in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, along with the remaining seats in Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Chandigarh, and West Bengal, are voting braving soaring temperatures.Follow all Live Updates on Phase 7 Voting HereApart from PM Modi, the other candidates in the fray today include BJP leaders Kangana Ranaut, Ravi Kishan and Anurag Thakur, Congress leader Vikramaditya Singh, RJD leader Misa Bharti, and TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee.Elections are also being held for 42 assembly constituencies in Odisha along with Lok Sabha polls.

The votes will be counted on June 4.Also Read: Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Voters' guide to Phase 7 — check vote timings, polling stations, candidatesUntil phase six of Lok Sabha elections 2024, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won 278 seats in the 2019 elections – six seats above the majority mark of 272, according to political analysts Amitabh Tiwari.Of the 57 seats, the BJP won 25 in 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. The Congress won eight seats in 2019 elections of the 57 Lok Sabha seats voting today.

In 2014, the Congress had won just three of these seats.The BJP polled more than 40 per cent vote share in at least 28 of these 57 seats, while the Congress got a vote share of less than 10 per cent in at least 18 seats, according to a report in India Today.Overall, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had won 30 of the 57 seats in 2019. The INDIA bloc parties had won 19 seats while others won 8 seats in 2019.