ADR founder Jagdeep Chokkar questioned as to whether the elections results were declared based on final reconciled data and said that “this has raised concerns and public suspicion regarding the correctness of the election results”.
Poll watchdog Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) in a recent report claimed that there was a discrepancy in the number of votes polled and the number of votes counted in the recently concluded 2024 parliamentary election.

There was a difference of nearly 5.5 lakh votes - between those recorded by EVMs and those counted, or not counted, reported the NGO. Essentially, the poll watchdog hinted that as many as 5.5 lakh votes appear not to have been counted despite being recorded by the Electronic Voting Machines - in 362 constituencies. The ADR has also claimed around 35,000 more votes were counted than recorded by EVMs in 176 seats

ADR also flagged the “inordinate” delay in the release of final voter turnout data, and “absence of disaggregated constituency and polling station figures” in absolute numbers.

ADR founder Jagdeep Chokkar, reportedly questioned as to whether the elections results were declared based on final reconciled data and said that “this has raised concerns and public suspicion regarding the correctness of the election results”.

A report by the ADR titled, “Discrepancies between the votes cast and the votes counted in the 2024 Lok Sabha Election: Multiple perspectives”, said that while declaring the results of the general election, votes polled and counted showed significant discrepancies in 538 parliamentary constituencies, except Amreli, Attingal, Lakshadweep and Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu.
“The Election Commission has so far failed to give any reasonable explanation in declaring the election results before releasing the final and authentic data on vote count, the mismatch in EVM votes polled EVM votes counted, increase in voter turnout, non-disclosure of number of votes polled in numbers, unreasonable delay in release of votes polled data and the clean-up of certain data from its website,” it said in a statement.

According to the ADR the only seats in which votes polled matched votes counted are Amreli in Gujarat (won by the BJP's Bharatbhai Manubhai Sutariya), Kerala's Attingal (the Congress' Adoor Prakash claimed victory), and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Daman and Diu, which were won by the Congress' Muhammed Hamdullah Sayeed and an independent candidate, respectively.

ADR said that in order to maintain the purity and legitimacy of elections, the EC should publish the total number of electors in each parliamentary constituency, total number of voters as noted in register of voters, and number of voters as per EVM for all parliamentary constituencies that have already gone to polls.