{"id":64655,"date":"2024-06-04T11:40:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T02:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/jun\/04\/india-election-results-2024-live-updates-modi-bjp-vote-counting"},"modified":"2024-06-05T04:04:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T19:04:29","slug":"india-election-results-2024-live-updates-modi-widely-expected-to-win-historic-third-term-as-bjp-eyes-two-thirds-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64655","title":{"rendered":"India election results 2024: Narendra Modi claims third term but projections show party unlikely to win outright majority \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi says India has placed its faith in the ruling coalition \u2018for a third consecutive time\u2019, as figures show his BJP party unlikely to secure an overall majority<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This live blog is now closed. Read more about the Indian election result <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/04\/india-election-results-narendra-modi-bjp\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance, the NDA bloc, is enjoying an early lead as votes are counted, pulling ahead in 154 seats of the total 543 in the lower house of parliament.<\/p>\n<p> Early trends show the opposition INDIA alliance leading in 120 seats.<\/p>\n<p> The first votes counted are postal ballots, which are paper ballots, mostly cast by troops serving outside their home constituencies or officials away from home on election duty.<\/p>\n<p> This year, postal votes were also offered to voters over 85 years of age and people with disabilities to allow them to vote from home.<\/p>\n<p>According to some exit polls, Modi and the BJP could be headed for a two-thirds majority in parliament, giving them an even stronger victory than in the 2019 elections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/jun\/04\/india-election-results-2024-live-updates-modi-bjp-vote-counting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi says India has placed its faith in the ruling coalition \u2018for a third consecutive time\u2019, as figures show his BJP party unlikely to secure an overall majorityThis live blog is now closed. Read more about the Indian election result hereIndia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64655"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64681,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64655\/revisions\/64681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}