With the counting of votes underway across 1,100 centres to elect the 17th Lok Sabha, all eyes will be on who comes victorious at the end of this mammoth exercise. Majority of exit polls have given the Narendra Modi-led NDA a clear majority.
Here's a quick look at the candidates who are leading in
key constituencies which witnessed marquee electoral battles.
*Congress'
Jyotiraditya Scindia trails in Madhya Pradesh's Guna by a margin of nearly 40,000 votes.
*BJP President
Amit Shah is set to win Gandhinagar seat, leads with 2.5 lakh votes.
*BJP's
Sunny Deol surges ahead with a healthy lead over his nearest rival Congress' Sunil Jakhar in Punjab's Gurdaspur.
*BJP candidate and sitting MP
Kirron Kher is leading against her nearest rival and Congress nominee Pawan Kumar Bansal from the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat.
*BJP's
Smriti Irani ahead of Rahul Gandhi by a margin of over 7,000 votes in Amethi.
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Urmila Matondkar trailing in Mumbai North constituency by almost 43,000 votes.
*BJP's
Gautam Gambhir ahead of AAP's Atishi in East Delhi constituency. BJP is also ahead in six other seats in early trends in Delhi.
*Sitting BJP MP from Haridwar
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank is trailing behind his nearest rival from the Congress Ambrish Kumar by nearly 3000 votes even as the BJP is ahead of the Congress in four other seats in Uttarakhand.
*In Hamirpur, sitting BJP MP
Anurag Thakur is leading by over 51,000 votes over his nearest rival Ram Lal Thakur of Congress.
*Union minister
Kiren Rijiju leading from Arunachal West constituency.
*Union Minister and sitting BJP MP
Jayant Sinha is leading by 6,486 votes against his nearest Congress rival Gopal Prasad Sahu from Hazaribagh Lok Sabha seat.
*Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and sitting TMC MP
Abhishek Banerjee is leading in Diamond Harbour constituency in West Bengal.
*BJP's
Krishna Pal Singh Yadav is leading by a margin of 1165 votes against Congress' Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna.
*Union minister
Babul Supriyo of the BJP is leading by 3448 votes against Moon Moon Sen of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) from Asansol Lok Sabha seat
*BJP's
Pragya Singh Thakur is leading from Bhopal against Congress candidate Digvijaya Singh.
*PDP chief
Mehbooba Mufti trailing in Anantnag constituency in J&K.
*Congress' Mumbai chief
Milind Deora is trailing from South Mumbai constituency.
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Shashi Tharoor is leading in Thiruvananthapuram seat in Kerala. He is a sitting MP from the constituency.
*BJP President
Amit Shah leading by over a lakh of votes in Gandhinagar constituency in Gujarat.
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Sumalatha Ambareesh is leading in Mandya Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka. She is an independent candidate backed by the BJP. She is ahead of the JD(S) candidate
Nikhil Kumaraswamy, who is chief minister HD Kumaraswamy's son.
*Congress president
Rahul Gandhi is leading from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency by a margin of over a lakh of votes in Kerala.
*Former J&K chief minister and National Conference patron
Farooq Abdullah is leading from the Srinagar constituency in J&K.