New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee is set to retain Bengal with Trinamool Congress winning 156 of the state's 294 seats, However, the BJP will ...
New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee is set to retain Bengal with Trinamool Congress winning 156 of the state's 294 seats, However, the BJP will bag121 seats, say exit polls on Thursday evening, the last day of polling in West Bengal.
The BJP expected to retain power in Assam by winning 76 of the 126 seats. The Congress may win 49 seats. In Kerala, the incumbent Left-led LDF front is likely to win 76 of 140 seats - ahead of the half-way mark - but the Congress-led UDF will be close behind with 62 seats. The BJP will bag 2 seats. BJP will emerge victorious in Puducherry.
The exit polls predict a sweep for the opposition DMK and its allies -- 171 of 234 seats in Tamil Nadu. The ruling AIADMK, may bag given 58 seats.
Tamil
Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry went to the polls from March
27. The results will be announced on May 2.
The eighth and final phase of elections in West Bengal saw stray incidents of violence were reported from several areas, but the overall polling process was peaceful with 76.07 per turnout recorded till 5pm, EC officials said. Malda saw 80.06% polling, Murshidabad 78.07%, Birbhum 81.87% and Kolkata North 57.53% polling.
Voting was held in 11,860 polling stations of 35 constituencies — 11 each in Murshidabad and Birbhum, 6 in Malda and 7 in north Kolkata.
The Election
Commission has sought details of an incident where a bomb was hurled near
Mahajati Sadan on Vidhan Sarani in north Kolkata on Thursday morning.
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