Voting ends in last round of India’s election

People line up to cast their votes at a polling station in Kolkata, India (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

India’s six-week-long national election has ended as the last of the country’s hundreds of millions of voters cast their ballots.

Candidates travelled across the country during the multi-phase election as poll workers hiked to remote villages and voters lined up for hours in sweltering heat.