The data didn't indicate what percentage of the estimated 600 million votes cast over the six-week election had been counted. Half a dozen exit polls released after voting concluded Sunday showed Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party winning. BJP supporters celebrate after learning the initial election results in New Delhi. Election Commission results showed the BJP's Smriti Irani was ahead by 38,000 votes in Amethi, a longtime Gandhi family bastion in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Fashion designer Sandeep Verma, 39, said he wasn't a BJP supporter but had voted for the party in these elections.

Source: CBC News May 23, 2019 06:22 UTC