The Election Commission has issued a notification banning the conduct, publication or publicising of exit polls between 7.00 am of April 19 and 6.30 pm of June 1 when votes will be cast for the Lok Sabha and four state assembly polls. The notification issued on Thursday also made it clear that under the provisions of the Representation of the People Act, displaying any election matter including results of any opinion poll or any other poll survey, in any electronic media, would be prohibited during the 48-hour period ending with the time fixed for the conclusion of the poll. Besides Lok Sabha polls, assemblies of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim are going for elections. Separately, bye-election to 25 assembly constituencies in 12 states are also being held in this period.
The polling for the 119-member Telangana concluded on Thursday and it was the last among five states that went to the polls this month
India will be heading into a political cliffhanger this Sunday as votes are counted in MP, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Telangana. Counting of votes in Mizoram has been deferred to Dec 4.
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The exit poll results for all five states - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram -were declared by media outlets on Thursday
Rajasthan Assembly elections 2023: A party must secure 101 out of the 200-seat Assembly to form government in the state
In Telangana, nearly all exit polls said the Congress could upstage the BRS in a tough contest, ending its decade-long rule ever since the state was carved out of Andhra Pradesh in 2013. Watch the vid
Assembly elections 2023: The elections in these five states took place in phases from November 7 to November 30 and the final results will be released on December 3
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Madhya Pradesh Assembly election exit polls 2023 : The results of the exit polls will give a preliminary idea to parties of what the election results could be like
On November 17, Madhya Pradesh voted to elect its next government, and now all eyes are on exit polls. Read on to find out all the details
BRS has ruled Telangana for about a decade now, and anti-incumbency is among the major factors in the state
The exit poll results of Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram will be announced on November 30, after 6:30 pm
National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Thursday said he would rather wait for assembly election results in Karnataka than believe in the exit polls. "We should wait for the results to come because I have seen that these polls can go anyway," Abdullah told reporters at Vihil Shopian, in south Kashmir, after he was asked to comment on the exit polls results. He was there to attend a party event. Most exit polls on Wednesday predicted a close contest between the Congress and the BJP in the high-stakes Karnataka Assembly polls with many pollsters giving an edge to the grand old party. Asked about the upcoming G20 tourism working group meeting in Kashmir, Abdullah, a former Union minister, said India hosting the summit this year was not something new as the grouping's host country changes every year. "G20 presidency goes to one of the 20 countries every year. This is not something new. The benefit of the G20 is that 20 countries present their problems, look for their ...
Voter turnout may be lower than the record 72% seen in the previous election
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday rejected the exit poll results, which gave Congress an edge over the ruling BJP in the assembly elections and asserted that his party will win with clear majority. He also said the high voter turnout always favoured the BJP and not the Congress as some rival leaders have been claiming. Exit polls are exit polls. They can't be 100 per cent correct. There will be variation that can change the whole scenario, Bommai told reporters in his home constituency Shiggaon, from where he is contesting the election. Our ground report says we will win with absolute majority. Let us wait till May 13 (when the counting will happening), the CM said. To a question about the Congress being buoyed by the voter turnout, and seeing it is a positive sign for the party, Bommai replied that it is the other way round. "See, more number of voters turning out is always better for the BJP, not the Congress. It shows that lot of people who otherwise do not
JD(S) likely to play a crucial role in next govt in Karnataka
4 out of 6 major exit polls had predicted the largest number of seats for BJP
The exit polls further pointed out that the northeastern state would have a hung house, with Sangma's National People's Party (NPP) emerging as the single-largest party
Hung house predicted in Meghalaya