LS poll counting: NDA continues dominance

As per the trends at 1:30 pm, the NDA is ahead in 335 seats while the Congress-led UPA (United Progressive Alliance) is ahead in  61 seats.

Other parties are currently leading in 147 seats.

BJP alone is ahead in 282 seats with Modi winning both in Varanasi and Vadodara seats.

Th Congress is ahead in 46 seats.

Trends thus show NDA would form a government under Modi without any help of other powers.

Among the other major parties, the AAP is ahead in 5 seats.

The AIADMK is ahead in 36 seats,

The TMC is ahead in 33 seats.

The SP is ahead in 7 seats.

The BJP is ahead in 70 seats in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh, showing its best ever result almost.

BJP is also leading in all seven seats in the national capital with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) this time failing to make any impact.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, who was earlier trailing in Amethi, is currently leading in the seat. BJP's  Smriti Irani is giving him a tough fight. Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi is leading in Rae Bareli.

The Modi wave even had its impact in a state like West Bengal with party candidates like Babul Supriyo on the course of winning and in some others their candidates doing well.

In Gandhinagar in Gujarat, BJP patriarch L K Advani is ahead.

Bollywood actor Hema Malini is leading in Mathura seat. BJP president Rajnath Singh is leading in Lucknow seat in UP.

However, Mamata Banerjee's wave continued in West Bengal with her TMC ahead in 33 seats while Left Front is leading in only 2 seat while Congress is ahead in 4.

Former Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress candidate from Barrackpore Dinesh Trivedi won by a margin of over 1 lakh votes.

In Darjeeling, West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress candidate and former India football captain Bhaichung Bhutia is trailing behind BJP candidate S S Ahluwalia.

Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee is leading i the Diamond Harbour seat.

Counting of votes started at 8 am.