LIVE ELECTION RESULTS : General Lok Sabha Elections 2009

The run-up to fifteenth General Lok Sabha Election features plenty of high-octane and intense political activities have virtually transformed the largest edifice of electoral democracy into a pandemonium where every player: Congress, BJP Left and powerful state based parties like RJD are engaged in weighing their base and vote bank.

There are few invariable trends which can potentially affect the mandate: diminishing status of the nationalist parties and formation of coalition at the cost of ideology. Recent resurgence of the third front as anti –Congress and anti-BJP force led by Left parties and reluctance of state level parties to align with nationalist parties can cost BJP and Congress dearly in this electoral season.

In a situation every party is battle-ready; few political events have raised the temperature of political scene such as full-blown internal conflict of BJP, inflammatory speech by Varun Gandhi which snowballed into a national media circus and translocation of IPL, these might change the course and contour of the campaign.BJP has legitimized their ultra Hinditva ideology allowing Varun to contest the election. Almost every party has rallied against Vraun to gain political leverage.

At the end of the day voter s would be in a fix to pick out their candidate amidst all the seat-sharing and multiparty alliance .The Country would go to poll in five phases on April 16, April 22, April 23, April 30, May 7 and May 13, 2009. Election Commission would bring down the curtain on the greatest Political spectacle announcing the result ton 15th May.

The following polling schedule for the 2009 General Elections was announced by the Chief Election Commissioner of India, N Gopalaswami, on March 2, 2009:

April 16 - Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep

April 23 - Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Orissa, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand April 30 - Bihar, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu

May 7 - Bihar, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Delhi

May 13 - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Chandigarh, Puducherry

Counting of Votes : May 16of all phases