Following the conclusion of the Delhi Assembly elections on Wednesday, exit polls predict a comeback for the BJP in the capital after three decades.
Voting for the Assembly election took place across 13,766 stations in Delhi’s 70 constituencies. The voter turnout stood at 57.7 percent by 5 pm with a total of 15.6 million eligible voters casting their ballots.
The voter turnout however remains low as compared to the previous elections with the 2020 Assembly elections recording a voter turnout of 62.59 percent, and the 2015 elections recording a 67.1 percent, the highest in the city’s electoral history.
36 seats mark the majority for any party to achieve to form their government in Delhi in the 70-member Delhi assembly.
The exit polls for the Assembly election predictions are as follows:
ABP Matrize
AAP — 32-37 seats
BJP — 35-40 seats
Congress — 0-1 seat
Peoples Pulse
BJP: 51-60
AAP: 10-19
Congress: 0
P MARQ
BJP: 39-49 seats
AAP: 21-31 seats
Congress: 0-1 seats
Chanakya’s Strategy
BJP: 39-44
AAP: 25-28
Congress: 2-3
Addressing the predictions, AAP leader Reena Gupta said, “You can look at any historical exit poll. AAP is always given a smaller number of seats, whether its 2013, 2015 or 2020.”
Being optimistic about the result to be in AAP’s favor she added, “But whatever is shown, AAP gets a lot a greater number of seats in reality. AAP will register a historic victory, and Arvind Kejriwal will become CM for the fourth time.”
“This is Modi wave. The people of Delhi want development just like there has been development in the rest of the country under PM Narendra Modi,” BJP candidate from Kalkaji constituency Ramesh Bidhuri said.
“The hard work put in by our party workers and the guidance and strategy of our leaders have reaped fruit. I don’t believe in these exit polls, the number of our seats will rise further. BJP will cross the 50-seat mark,” he added.
Congress accused BJP workers and AAP volunteers of breaching election regulations by handing out money. Congress Candidate from the New Delhi constituency Sandeep Dikshit said, “Today, we were in Ansari Nagar, near AIIMS, where we saw BJP workers distributing money. Two AAP volunteers were also held today for the same. The scale on which it happened this time has never happened before. We have fought a good election, we have changed the dynamics.”
