Elections 2014: Exit polls show no clear majority, BJP makes huge gains
New Delhi: If the exit poll results announced on Monday evening are to be believed, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is inching towards 7 Race Course Road. Almost all the post-poll surveys conducted by different agencies for TV channels indicated on Monday that the BJP-led NDA is all set to form the government at the Centre.
The surveys claimed that the BJP-led NDA will get between 249 and 340 Lok Sabha seats, while the Congress-led UPA might end up with anything between 70 and 148 seats. Others, including the SP, BSP, Trinamul and the Left parties, are, according to the exit polls, likely to get between 133 and 156 seats.
The surveys were released after voting in the ninth and final phase of the Lok Sabha polls ended on Monday evening. In Tamil Nadu, J. Jayalalithaa’s AIADMK appears headed for a sweep, with a majority of the polls saying she would eclipse all her rivals.
The polls conducted by Today’s Chanakya for News24 channel predicted that the NDA would get 340 seats, whereas the Co-ngress-led UPA would end up getting only 70 seats and Others 133.
The projections on Times Now, conducted by ORG, said the NDA would get 249 seats, while the UPA would bag 148 seats and Others 146 seats.
The poll conducted by ITG-Cicero for Headlines Today projected that the NDA would get 272 (plus-minus 11), UPA 115 (plus-minus 5) and Others 156.
The C-Voter survey on India TV gave the NDA 289 seats, the UPA 101 seats and 153 for Others. As for the breakup, of the 289 seats for NDA, the exit poll claimed the BJP on its own would get 249, and its allies another 40 seats. Of the UPA’s 101 seats, it predicted 78 seats for the Congress and 23 to its allies.
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