Malegaon/Mumbai: The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra looks set for an impressive performance, leading in 30 of the total 48 seats as per early trends.
BJP candidates were leading in 17, Sena nominees in 13 seats. The notable BJP candidates leading included former party president Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur and the party's deputy leader in Lok Sabha Gopinath Munde, who is attempting to retain his Beed seat in Marathwada.
Prominent among those trailing were Union minister Sushilkumar Shinde from Solapur, Chhagan Bhujbal from Nashik and Congress minister Narayan Rane's son Nilesh Rane, who is trying to retain the Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg seat in coastal Konkan.
Late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan's daughter Poonam Mahajan was leading by more than 10,000 from Mumbai North Central over Congress candidate Priya Dutt, who is sitting MP from that seat.
In Baramati, after initial setback, NCP's Supriya Sule established a lead by 15,000 votes. In North Maharashtra, BJP was leading by 3,854 votes in Dhule and by 25,000 votes in Dindori.
In Amravati, Shiv Sena was leading by 5,831 votes. In Maval, Laxman Jagtap of PWP was leading.
In Mumbai South Central, Shiv Sena's Rahul Shewale was leading over sitting Congress MP Eknath Gaikwad.
In Bhiwandi, BJP was leading by 19,902 votes, in Kalyan, Shiv sena had established a lead while in Thane, Shiv Sena's Rajan Vichare was leading with 19,438 votes.
In other places, former cricketer and the sitting Congress MP from Moradabad Mohammad Azharudding is ahead of his nearest rival of the Bhartia Janata Party (BJP) in the Tonk-Sawaimadhopur LS seat in Rajasthan.
Maulana Asrarul Haqu Qasmi of the Congress party is also leading in Kishanganj in Bihar, as per the election commission data available till 10:15 a.m. He is the sitting MP of Congress from Kishanganj and set to retain the seat.
Badrudding Ajmal Qasmi of AIUDF is also leading by more than five thousand votes.
In Dhule-Malegaon Lok Sabha constituency, Bhartia Janata Party's Dr Subhash Bhamre is ahead of his nearest rival Amrish Patel of Congress, as per the vote count result after the first round.
After the first round in six assembly constituencies, Dr Subhash Bhamre got 23, 262 votes whereas Amrish Patel of Congress got a total of 21, 071 votes.
Ansari Nihal of the AAP party could just get a total of 474 votes in first round.
In Gurgaon, Zakir Hussain of the Congress party is ahead of his nearest rival of the BJP, as per the election commission data available till 09:30 a.m.
Interestingly, the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) top leader Yogendra Yadav, is decimated at 5th spot. He bagged just 740 votes till 09:30 a.m.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is leading in three Punjab parliamentary seats. The AAP is also leading on other two seats. Exit polls had predicted the AAP will win two seats in Punjab. The trends show the AAP defying the exit polls.
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) is leading in 02 seats in Hyderabad. In Assam, AIUDF is leading on 03 seats - a gain of 02 seats as compared to the last election.
As per the election commissioner data at 09:30 a.m., BJ- led alliance leads in as many as 281 Lok Sabha seats whereas Congress-led alliance and others including the Left parties are respectively leading in 80 and 136 seats.
BJP-led alliance is gaining a total 146 seats as comapred to the 2009 election.
Earlier, a mass of Indian officials Friday morning began counting the millions of votes polled in the staggered Lok Sabha election, officials said.
Tens of thousands of officials began the formal counting at 8 a.m. in 989 centres across the country, watched by agents of the candidates as well as security personnel.
An estimated 550 million electorate, or 66 percent of the total, voted in the election that ended May 12 to elect a new 543-member Lok Sabha.
Exit polls at the end of the staggered polls have predicted a win for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
A total of 8,251 candidates, including 668 women, contested the battle for the 16th Lok Sabha.
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