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Rajasthan Assembly elections results 2023: As of 2:30 pm, BJP had 42% of the vote share, followed by Congress at 39%
With the BJP heading towards victory in three out of the four states that went to polls recently, the party will now be in power in 12 states on its own, while the Congress, the second largest national party, will come down to three after losing Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. The Aam Aadmi Party, with its government in Delhi and Punjab, is third among national parties. The BJP, which rules the centre, is in power in Uttarakhand, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Goa, Assam, Tripura, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, and is all set to get Madhya Pradesh back and snatch Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh from the Congress after today's vote count. Besides, BJP is also part of the ruling coalition in four states - Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Sikkim. The Congress will now be in power in three states on its own - Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, and Telangana, where it's on its way to victory, defeating its closest rival, the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). The Congress is also part of the ru
The BJP appeared set Sunday to wrest Rajasthan from the Congress with counting trends in the afternoon showing the party leading on 111 seats, way past the Congress which was ahead in 73 constituencies. If the initial trends released by the Election Commission hold, the party is comfortably past the halfway mark of 100. Polling was held for 199 of the 200 seats in the state assembly on November 25. Celebrations broke out at the BJP's state headquarter as the party crossed the majority-mark, in terms of trends. Groups of women workers at that office raised slogans hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP is going to get a thumping victory and will form the government, a party worker said. Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat took a dig at Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, saying his magic is over. The 'magic' has ended and Rajasthan has come out of the spell of the magician. People have voted for the honour of women and for the welfare of the poor, he said. Gehlot's father perf
Chhattisgarh Assembly elections results 2023: In a heated battle, the BJP was leading on 46 seats, followed by Congress at 40 at 12:30 pm
Rajasthan Assembly elections results 2023: As of 12:30 pm, BJP had 41.89% of the vote share, followed by Congress at 39%
Chhattisgarh Assembly elections results 2023: The counting in the state began at 8 am on Sunday. Here's how the trends look at 11:30 am
Chhattisgarh Assembly elections results 2023: The counting in the state began at 8 am on Sunday. Here's how the trends look at 9:30 am
Rajasthan Assembly elections results 2023: As of 11:30 am, BJP had 41.91 per cent of the vote share, followed by Congress at 39 per cent
Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president Satish Poonia is trailing in the Amber assembly seat by 921 votes, according to the Election Commission trends on Sunday. Poonia is pitted against Congress' Prashant Sharma, who is leading with 16,100 votes. BJP's Kirodi Lal Meena is leading in the Sawai Madhopur seat with a margin of 1,177 votes. Meena, Rajya Sabha MP, is leading with 3,632 votes in one of 19 rounds, according to the Election Commission. In the Tonk seat, Ajit Singh Mehta is trailing by a margin of 943 votes. Mehta is pitted against Congress leader and former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot. Pilot is leading with 8,775 votes in two of 20 rounds. Among other BJP contestants who are leading is Subhash Maharia, who is leading on the Lacchmangarh seat with a margin of 198 votes. PCC president Govind Singh Dotasra is contesting as the Congress candidate on this seat. Maharia, with 4579 votes, is leading in one of 24 rounds.
BJP leader Vasundhara Raje is leading in Rajasthan's Jhalrapatan assembly seat with 7,025 votes against her Congress rival Ramlal Chouhan, according to the Election Commission website. The former chief minister has got 13,213 votes so far, while Chouhan has got 6,188, the website showed. According to initial trends for the Rajasthan assembly polls, counting for which began at 8 am on Sunday, BJP candidates are leading in several other seats. In Vidhyadhar Nagar constituency, the BJP's Diya Kumar is leading with 420 votes against the Congress' Sitaram Agarwal, the EC website showed. So far, Kumar has received 7,094 votes and Aggarwal has got 6,674 votes. In Nimbahera assembly segment, BJP candidate Shrichand Kriplani is leading with 1,220 votes against his Congress rival Anjana Udayalal. Kriplani has received 14,944 votes so far and Udayalal 13,724, according to EC data. Rajasthan minister Shakuntala Rawat is leading in Bansur seat against Rohitash Kumar of the Aazad Samaj Party
Chhattisgarh Assembly polls results 2023: The trends for all 90 seats are out, according to TV reports. Here's how the trends look at 10:30 am
Rajasthan Assembly elections results 2023: The counting of postal ballots in the state began at 8 am on Sunday. Here's how the trends look at 10:30 am
Union Minister and BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia arrives at the residence of incumbent Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, in Bhopal
BJP's Kedar Kashyap is leading from Narayanpur assembly constituency as per the ECI data
Rajasthan Assembly elections results 2023: The counting in the state began at 8 am on Sunday. Here's how the trends look at 9:30 am
According to the Election Commission of India, Congress candidate Komati Reddy Venkat Reddy is leading from Medchal and Mynampally Rohith from Nalgonda
BJP leading in 7 assembly constituencies and Congress in 1 constituency, as per official trends
As per Election Commission, Rajasthan Congress MLA candidate Amin Kagzi from Kishan Pole constituency is leading in early trends, as per ECI
"Congress will win more than 70 seats and exit polls also said the same," Manikrao Thackeray, All India Congress Observer added