Exit poll 2019: Pollsters predict clear majority for BJP in Maharashtra, Haryana
New Delhi, Oct 21: Most exit polls predicted a comfortable majority for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections.
Voting for 288-member Maharashtra assembly and 90 member Haryana assembly concluded at 6 PM today. As soon as the voting concluded exit polls started tickiling in and most of the pollsters have predicted a landslide win for the saffron party.
People in large number cast their votes to decide the fate of 4,406 candidates 1,169 in Haryana and 3,237 in Maharashtra in this assembly elections.
Both Maharashtra and Haryana have BJP governments. While in Maharashtra, the BJP is in power with its ally Shiv Sena, in Haryana, the BJP has the majority on its own. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Haryana's ML Khattar are first-time CMs and both come from a strong RSS background.
Maharashtra EXIT POLL RESULTS
TV9
BJP: 197
Congress: 75
Others: 16
News18 - IPSOS
BJP: 243
Congress: 41
Others:04
TimesNow
BJP: 230
Congress: 48
Others: 10
India Today- Axis
BJP: 166-194
Congress: 72-90
Others: 22-34
ABP-CVoter
BJP: 204
Congress: 69
Others: 15
NewsX-Polstrat
BJP: 188-200
Congress: 74-89
Others: 6-10
Republic-Jan Ki Baat
BJP: 216-230
Congress: 52-59
Others: 8-12
Haryana EXIT POLL RESULTS
News18 - IPSO
BJP: 75
Congress: 10
Others: 5
Times Now
BJP: 71
Congress: 11
Others: 08
NewsX
BJP: 77
Congress: 11
Others: 02
ABP-CVoter
BJP: 72
Congress: 8
Others: 10
Republic-Jan Ki Baat
BJP: 57
Congress: 17
Others: 16
TV9 - Bharatvarsh
BJP: 47
Congress: 23
Others: 20
India News- Pollstrat
BJP: 75-80
Congress: 09-12
Others: 00-01
Maharashtra polls: Political equations
The main contest is between the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance and the Congress-NCP alliance.
The BJP is contesting from 164 seats while the Shiv Sena has fielded candidates on 126 seats.
Congress has fielded 147 candidates and the ally NCP 121.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), led by Raj Thackeray, has fielded 101 candidates, the CPI 16, the CPM 8. The BSP has fielded candidates in 262 constituencies. A total of 1400 Independents are also in the poll arena.
In 2014 elections, the BJP had won the highest 122 seats, Sena 63, the Congress 42 and the NCP 41 seats.
Haryana polls 2019: Political equations
The BSP, AAP, INLD-SAD combine, Swaraj India and the Loktantra Suraksha Party (LSP) have thrown the hat into the ring, though none of them is fighting on all 90 seats.