Lok Sabha Elections 2024: In 2019, Congress couldn't win any of the 58 seats voting in phase 6 today, BJP won 40

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sixth and penultimate phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 today, May 25. All 10 seats of Haryana and seven seats of Delhi are voting in this round of polling. Elections to 486 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats will be over by the end of phase 6 polling today.

The remaining 57 seats will vote in the last phase on June 1. The results of the seven-phase general elections will be declared on June 4. Also Read: Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Pitched capital battle on 7 Delhi seats in phase 6 polling todayAmong the prominent candidates in the fray today are Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Maneka Gandhi (Sultanpur), Manoj Tiwari (North East Delhi), Naveen Jindal (Kurukshetra), and Manohar Lal Khattar (Karnal).

Raj Babbar (Gurgaon) and Kanhaiya Kumar (North East Delhi) are the prominent Congress candidates in the fray today.In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, among the 58 seats polling today in the sixth phase, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had won 45 seats. The parties in the opposition INDIA bloc could win just 5 seats. To break it further, the BJP had won 40 of these seats in 2019.

And the Congress could not win a single of these seats. Instead, the 5 INDIA bloc seats in 2019 were won by the Trinamool Congress (TMC), the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) and the Samajwadi Party (SP).Also Read: Kashmir news: PDP's Mehbooba Mufti faces high-stakes battle in redrawn Anantnag-Rajouri seat in Phase 6 polling todayThe NDA parties polled 51.36 per cent of the votes while INDIA bloc parties, including the Congress, polled 28.66 per cent of votes in these seats in 2019. The BJP bagged over 40 per cent vote share on at least 47 of these seats, according to a report in India TodayIn 2014, the NDA won 39 of these seats