Many people are saying, “1-1 cup chai aur bola jaye?” – a dialogue from the series Panchayat. The meme shows Binod, played by Ashok Pathak, and Bhushan, played by Durgesh Kumar, debating whether they should get another cup of tea while watching drama from a distance in the Phulera panchayat office. This line has resonated with netizens after watching the Lok Sabha election results unfold.

The “Paw Paw Girl” who became a meme after making an appearance in an ad praising PM Modi for evacuating stranded Indian nationals from war zones came back in spotlight. This happened as BJP is struggling to gain majority.

In the Lok Sabha elections, 2.18 lakh voters in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore chose the ‘none of the above’ option, setting a record. Of the total voters, 14.01 per cent opted for “None of the Above”.

As per trends on Tuesday evening it is becoming clear who will come out as a winner for the Lok Sabha elections 2024, an X user shared a meme featuring cricketer Pat Cummins. The meme highlights the upcoming T20 Men’s World Cup and suggests that Australia will emerge as the winner regardless of the outcome of the Lok Sabha elections.

Pradeep Gupta, Chairman and Managing Director of Axis My India, broke down on live television as the results for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 came in. BJP performed below par and appears to have fallen short of exit poll projections. As Pradeep Gupta broke down, numerous people reacted to it.

Numerous internet users have taken to social media to share election highlights and create memes. While the election results are still unfolding, a user on the platform shared how memes are helping people stay updated with the latest developments.

As the seat difference between the INDIA bloc and the NDA narrowed, the Congress reached out to the ruling alliance’s leaders, including Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. While people are waiting to see what will happen next, a person shared this meme about Nitish Kumar changing alliance.

It has come as a surprise that the BJP, which was expected to increase its number of seats in the Lok Sabha from 2019—may not be able to secure a majority on its own. As numerous people are watching the results unfold, an X user pointed out how she feels: “50% thrilled and 50% devastated”.

X users are sparing no one when it comes to taking a dig as votes are being counted in the Lok Sabha election 2024. This meme implies that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whose JDU is leading in the state, is in touch with both the BJP and the Congress. Nitish Kumar returned to the BJP-led NDA alliance just five months before the elections.

An X user shared a meme to express what they would do if BJP lost the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. They shared a picture of a desktop with two folders – one of them is titled “Memes if BJP wins”, and the other file name reads, “Best universities to do MS abroad”.

In Uttar Pradesh, the INDIA bloc, an alliance between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, has emerged as a formidable opponent to the NDA. In Amethi, Congress candidate Kishori Lal Sharma is leading against BJP candidate Smriti Irani. Amethi is one of the most-watched seats of all the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies. Top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, meanwhile, is leading in Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh. This meme is a dig at how the voters in the state voted in the national election.

As the BJP is lagging behind the majority mark in the Lok Sabha polls, a strange phenomenon took over X, with numerous posts saying screaming “RCB, RCB, RCB”, referring to Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Several users were prompted to bring up RCB because as the Congress spring a surprise with its leads. The comments section on the YouTube live-stream of several news channels too had users commenting “RCB, RCB, RCB”. The majority mark to form a government at the centre is 272. Congress is leading on 95 seats, Samajwadi Party on 36, DMK on 21 seats, Trinamool Congress on 31, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) on 10 seats, NCP (SP) on 7 seats, CPI(M) on 4 seats and Aam Aadmi Party on 3 seats.

Another X user shared a post expressing how her father, who is “non political” does not even know about the election results. “He just vote and move on so I can’t relate with dads and election memes”, the user with the account name @alfiyastic posted.

Market capitalization of all the listed companies on BSE declined by ₹8.78 lakh crore to ₹417.13 lakh crore on the election result day. Sensex fell 2,700 points as investors adopted efforts to brace ahead of the Lok Sabha election results. An X user shared a screen grab from the film Hum Aapke Hain Koun, juxtaposing the stock market situation “Yesterday Vs Today”.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JDU, which returned to the BJP-led NDA just five months ago, is ahead of its rivals in 14 out of 16 seats it had contested in the state. Bihar has 40 Lok Sabha seats. An X user shared an old photo featuring a banner of Nitish Kumar with the text “Nitish sabke hain (Nitish belongs to everyone)”, a jibe at the veteran politician who switched political sides and left the opposition camp.

In Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav was leading by 52,000 votes in Kannauj. It appears that the election marked a return to regular politics, where voters were more concerned about bread and butter issues, especially in the Hindi heartland states where the opposition INDIA alliance managed to rally supporters around the issues of unemployment and price rise.

The BJP was leading in all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi on Tuesday, with Manoj Tiwari leading by a margin of over 43,000 votes, according to Election Commission trends. The BJP is in a direct contest with the Congress-AAP alliance in the national capital. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal expressed confidence that the Aam Aadmi Party will win all 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab and claimed that people are agitated with the BJP “due to rising prices and unemployment” . “I think we are going to win all 13 seats in Punjab. In two years of our tenure, we made electricity free and we are making good schools, hospitals, and Mohalla clinics, and providing employment. People are very happy about this, so we should be getting 13 seats,” Kejriwal told ANI.

As Lok Sabha election result trends pour in, memes inspired by hit web series Panchayat can be seen on social media platforms. X has become the hub for witty commentary and satire. Early trends from counting of votes showed disappointing results for the BJP-led NDA in the Lok Sabha elections, which appears to be losing heavily in its strongholds of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan although it is expected to form the government with about 290 seats.

The INDIA bloc was leading in 42 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh and the BJP-led NDA in 37, according to trends on the Election Commission website. This meme is on Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and her nephew Akash Anand who was removed as the party’s general coordinator in the middle of the polls. BSP is not part of the INDIA bloc. INDIA bloc parties SP and the Congress were leading in 34 and eight seats in UP, respectively, the election panel’s data for polls to the 80 parliamentary constituencies in the state showed.

Sensex and Nifty nosedived as initial trends predicted fewer seats for the BJP than the exit polls predicted over the weekend. Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty tanked over 5 percent in late morning trade on Tuesday as the initial trend showed the BJP winning fewer seats than predicted in exit polls. According to the latest trends from the counting of votes in the Lok Sabha elections 2024, the BJP-led NDA was surging ahead in two southern states, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka while the respective alliances of the DMK in Tamil Nadu and Congress in Kerala were on their way for another term in power.

The hashtag “#400 paar” (“beyond 400”) is trending on X as BJP supporters celebrate and promote the prediction that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will win over 400 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The PM Narendra Modi-led NDA is looking for a third straight term in power. The exit polls predicted that the the NDA is poised to improve its performance over its 2019 record when it won 352 seats. Two polls predicted the BJP also improving its numbers from the 303 seats it won in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

An account tracking Andhra Pradesh election results shared this meme on NRIs going to a popular south Indian restaurant in the US to track the election results. “Dallas aunties going to Godavari restaurant tonight for counting,” the text says. The counting for state legislative assemblies of 175 assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh is also on along with the Lok Sabha votes counting. Early trends were in favour of NDA in Andhra Pradesh assemby. Andhra Pradesh went to polls on May 13 for 25 Lok Sabha and 175 Assembly seats.

This Burnol meme was shared by a parody account in a sarcastic reference to the antiseptic cream to mock political opponents’ reactions to the 2024 Lok Sabha election results. As per the latest trends, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a lead of over 21 votes over rival, Congress’s Ajay Rai, in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency, as per ECI.

Elections have been a hot topic of discussion for millions of Indians. Highlighting that, this X user imagined how people will pass their days now that the elections are over and the counting will end today. The X user shared a meme featuring a scene from the newly released web series Panchayat 3. The scene shows Jitendra Kumar, playing the role of Abhishek Tripathi, sitting with three other people – Raghubir Yadav, essaying the role of Brijbhushan Dubey, Chandan Roy playing Vikas Kumar, and Faisal Malik in the role of Prahlad Pandey

Most exit polls predicted a straight term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with quite a few of them projecting a two-thirds majority for the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). This meme, with the iconic scene from the film Gangs of Wasseypur, features Manoj Bajpayee and others travelling on a Royal Enfield.