Exit Polls

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02 Dec 2023 12:05 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives to cast his vote at a polling booth during the second and final phase of Gujarat Assembly elections, at Ranip area in Ahmedabad, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Exit polls predict big majority for BJP in Gujarat, edge in HP

Two exit polls showed a dead heat between the BJP and the Congress in Himachal Pradesh where results could go either way

06 Dec 2022 7:21 AM

The results of a majority of the exit polls predict that Trinamul Congress’ Mamata Banerjee has a hurricane edge that could make her retain power for the third time in West Bengal. (Representational Photo: AFP)

Exit polls give Mamata key edge, DMK ahead

Left to retain Kerala, BJP tipped to return in Assam, win Puducherry

30 Apr 2021 4:43 AM

Protesters stay in a line during a protest after the Belarusian presidential election in Minsk, Belarus. (AP)

Clashes in Belarus as president claims a big election win

Thousands of opposition supporters quickly took to the streets of the capital to protest what they saw as official manipulation of the vote

10 Aug 2020 10:00 AM

Exit polls: AAP to return, BJP to gain

BJP brushes off the exit polls, party leaders say that ‘exit polls don’t have their math right’.

09 Feb 2020 2:29 AM

Fifteen Assembly constituencies in the state voted on Thursday in what is considered an acid test for the B.S. Yediyurappa government which will have to win at least seven of the 15 seats to ward off a threat from the opposition Congress and JD(S) which could join hands to topple the five-month-old BJP government if they have the required numbers in the Assembly. (Photo: Asian Age)

Karnataka bypolls: Exit polls predict big BJP victory

The big winner could be Rizwan Arshad of the Congress in Shivajinagar who may prevail.

06 Dec 2019 5:53 AM

After the voting in two states Haryana and Maharashtra, Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju expressed confidence of the BJP's victory. (Photo: File)

India is marching ahead, exit polls show clear victory for BJP: Kiren Rijiju

'The nation is backing him (Modi), it is very natural,' Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju added.

22 Oct 2019 2:32 PM

Voters display their identity cards as they wait in a queue to cast their votes for the Maharashtra Assembly polls in Sangli on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Exit polls predict landslide win for BJP in both states

Congress may do worse in Maharashtra, Haryana than in Lok Sabha polls.

22 Oct 2019 4:24 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Why ‘strong’ India still needs a healing touch

The campaign has been as intense, acrimonious and polarising as the kind we have seen in India.

23 May 2019 12:21 AM

The BJP-NDA hosted a dinner in New Delhi to felicitate Prime Minister Narendra Modi's five years in office as the allies prepared to get down to work in government.

Politicians gear up as D-Day is here

The Narendra Modi government's opponents, except a handful, couldn't come together as election allies.

23 May 2019 12:02 AM

‘I am 100 per cent sure that whatever the results may be, the BJP is not going to score as high as the exit polls suggest,’ Shashi Tharoor said. (Photo: ANI)

Tharoor calls BJP a 'sinking ship' as it swings into celebratory mode

‘In 2004, exit polls said NDA and Mr Vajpayee will win the election (which did not happen),’ Shashi said, dismissing exit polls.

22 May 2019 2:47 PM

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Monday sent an audio recording to her party workers, urging them not to believe in the survey. (Photo: File)

Priyanka urges party workers not to believe in exit polls

The exit polls on television channels on Monday projected that the BJP-led NDA will retain power at the Centre again.

21 May 2019 9:48 AM

Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Monday refused to comment on Vivek Oberoi's tweet against Aishwarya Bachchan, saying that he had many more other jobs to do than commenting on his meme. (Photo: File)

Have many more other jobs to do than commenting on Vivek's tweet: Shatrughan Sinha

The National Commission for Women (NCW) has issued a notice to actor Oberoi demanding explanation over his tweet on the exit polls.

21 May 2019 9:16 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to the Kedarnath valley on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

NDA and the winner’s curse: Tough times ahead

The happy news must have reached — like Maneka (of Vishwamitra fame) — to interrupt a meditating Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Kedarnath cave.

21 May 2019 7:14 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi during press conferences in their respective party headquarters. (Photo: AP)

Modi looks a winner, but it’s not quite off the mark

The BJP-NDA win indicated by the different exit polls can’t be used to infer that it is the victory of Mr Modi’s charismatic leadership.

21 May 2019 7:11 AM

The 7 phases of polls to select the 17th Lok Sabha started on April 11 and ended May 19. (Photo: ANI)

Are the exit polls right? Just wait for Thursday

There was only a very small increase in the percentage of voting in 2019 over the last Parliament election in 2014.

21 May 2019 1:07 AM

‘As per the exit polls, we are winning all the seven seats in Delhi,’ BJP Delhi president Manoj Tiwari said. (Photo: ANI)

BJP upbeat after exit polls predict victory in Delhi; AAP, Cong question its veracity

According to India TV-CNX Exit poll, the Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to repeat the 2014 victory when it had won all seven seats.

20 May 2019 6:02 PM

Buoyed by the exit poll predictions, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said that voters are no longer willing to trust a 'coalition of rivals' and do not elect a hung Parliament where ugly and untenable coalitions have a role to play. (Photo: File)

Voters no longer willing to trust 'coalition of rivals': Arun Jaitley

Jaitley in his blog said that the results of the Exit Polls and final results on the May 23 are in the same direction.

20 May 2019 5:47 PM

'This artificially engineered or manufactured Modi wave is being used by the BJP to lure regional parties well in advance to fill any shortfall after the results on May 23,' Kumaraswamy said. (Photo: File)

It is just an exit poll, not an exact poll: JD(S) leader Kumaraswamy

Most exit polls predicted that the ruling BJP led NDA will comfortably cross halfway mark of 272 seats in the LS.

20 May 2019 4:02 PM

Economic growth, which hit a five-quarter low of 6.6 per cent in October-December, appears to be slowing further. (Photo: AFP)

As election dust settles, jobs, trade, security high on government's to-do list

Unemployment rose to 7.6 per cent in April, the highest since October 2016, and up from 6.71 per cent in March.

20 May 2019 2:35 PM

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