Has UP voted for hung assembly? Exit poll today to offer indicators

Our exit poll gives 62-71 seats to the Congress party, while the newcomers AAP would be getting about 42-51 seats.

Sample this: Most of the Exit Polls including those by AXIS, Today’s Chanakya, VMR, MRC, CSDS etc predicted that BJP will win seats in the range of 164-285 and will form the government in the state.

In the ten hill districts, where the Congress is comparatively weak, the BJP and the NPF were battling it out for the 20 seats. The MGP has won 3 seats and Independents 4 seats.

Shastri does not think even the win in Punjab, and possibly Goa and Manipur, would be enough for the Congress to recover from the setback it received in Uttar Pradesh, where it fought the election as the junior partner in an alliance with the Samajwadi Party.

The prime contenders of this assembly poll were the BJP, with an anti-Congress, development-promising stand, alleging the Congress of involvement in extra-judicial killings and corruption, human rights activist and newcomer Irom Sharmila, with her war against alleged corruption of chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh and Armed Force (Special Powers) Act, also known as, AFSPA. While it is certain to finish as one of the two largest parties, its leaders were hoping to do one better with 22 results yet to come.

India will announce results of five state elections on Saturday, which many are seeing as a referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Congress is expected to make good gains in the Kumaon region and the Plains. Vote share The difference in vote share of the two main contenders in Uttarakhand will be just 0.1 per cent, according to C-Voter exit poll predictions. The Jats, who had overwhelmingly voted for the BJP in 2014, were seen to be returning to Ajit Singh’s RLD. The vote share for the BJP-Akali combine has come down drastically, and now hovers at about 17 per cent.

None of the BJP’s opponents, including the ruling Samajwadi Party, managed a vote share above 23 percent, results showed.

Polling trends on the Election Commission of India website showed the BJP storming ahead in 221 seats out of the 272 constituencies in the state where counting was underway.

In comparison to the earlier exit poll, the BJP’s voteshare in the state saw a huge increase from 2.1% in 2012 to 32.1% in 2017 election. In Goa, a close contest between the BJP and the Congress is brewing as the former has won 13 seats, while the latter is leading with 17.