SP’s Dimple Yadav, Congress’ Selja, BJP’s Hema Malini and Kangana Ranaut and RJD’s Misa Bharti are leading by significant margins in their respective constituencies.

The performance of the BJP-led NDA was far below the forecast of exit polls, which had given the ruling alliance over 350 seats.

BJP was leading in 11 seats and CPI (M) and Cong with one each

According to trends on the Election Commission website, the INDIA bloc was leading in 42 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh and the BJP-led NDA in 37.

The Bharatiya Janata Party was leading in five Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand, while the Congress was ahead in two and AJSU Party in one, as per available trends.

In the Anantnag-Rajouri seat, NC's Mian Altaf Larvi is ahead of PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti. Omar was trailing Awami Ittehad Party leader Engineer Rasheed.

TMC candidate and sitting MP Abhishek Banerjee was leading in Diamond Harbour constituency over his nearest rival BJP's Abhijit Das, officials said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trailing in his home turf, Varanasi, by over 6200 votes, according to the Election Commission of India website. Congress’ Ajay Rai is leading at the moment according to early trends.

Out of the 80 seats in the state, the BJP was leading in 51, while the INDIA bloc was ahead in 23, according to trends for 74 seats.

The initial trends from counting postal ballots in most of the Lok Sabha seats in Kerala on Tuesday indicated a close contest between the Congress-led UDF and the CPI(M)-led LDF.

The Lok Sabha has 543 members, but counting is conducted for 542 seats after the BJP's Surat candidate Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed.

Baghel claimed that the numbers of several EVMs used in the April 26 voting in Rajnandgaon, provided by the Election Commission of India (ECI), do not match the details of the machines used in the respective booths as mentioned in Form 17C.