Exit polls

Finally, as the Lok Sabha elections draw to a close on June 1, 2024, 43 days after the first phase on April 19, all eyes will shift to the exit polls which will start emerging soon after the voting period officially ends.

Between June 1 and June 4, when the results will be declared, it will be these exit polls that will keep parties either hoping or despairing.

So, how close were the exit polls in the past two general elections, 2014 and 2019, which were both won by the Narendra Modi-led BJP by huge margins? While the 2014 Lok Sabha polls were held between April 7 and May 12, with the results announced on May 16, the 2019 edition was from April 11 to May 19, and the results came out on May 23.

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US Exit polls: Most Americans fear for democracy as Harris, Trump face off

November 06, 2024 9:04 pm

Voters named democracy and the economy as their top concerns, followed by issues like abortion and immigration.

Exit poll expectations create huge distortion, pollsters need to introspect, says CEC Rajiv Kumar

October 15, 2024 6:18 pm

The CEC also questioned early trends shown on TV channels within 15-30 minutes of the start of vote counting.

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Exit Polls keep getting it wrong. Why go on?

October 09, 2024 3:37 am

They continue for the simple reason that it makes for good TV. And the viewer laps it up — politics, after all, is as much a national pastime as cricket

Rahul Gandhi conspiring to scare investors, market now growing as Modi govt set to return: BJP

June 06, 2024 11:21 pm

Addressing a press conference after Gandhi alleged a "biggest stock market scam" worth Rs 30 lakh crore and pointed fingers at Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, Union Minister Piyush Goyal claimed that domestic investors in fact made money while the loss was suffered by foreign investors.

‘PM, Shah and media house’: Rahul demands JPC investigation into market-poll crash link

‘PM, Amit Shah and media house’: Rahul Gandhi demands JPC investigation into market-poll crash link

June 07, 2024 7:22 am

Responding to the charges, senior BJP leader Piyush Goyal said, "The amount Rahul Gandhi is citing is just the valuation. In trading, Indians benefited. They proved to be smart.”

Exit exit polls

June 04, 2024 9:15 pm

Pollsters must go back to the drawing board. They must ask and answer tough questions, to be taken seriously

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: Counting day memes take over social media

June 04, 2024 5:54 pm

From the exit polls turning out far from accurate to the stock market crash and the counting trends making people wonder if Nitish Kumar would switch sides again, social media users did not spare any interesting topic while making memes.

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Markets seen surging post exit polls; reforms agenda back in focus

June 03, 2024 8:03 am

In the 2019 general elections, which were held between April 10 and May 17, 13 exit polls predicted 306 seats for the NDA and 120 for the UPA, on an average basis.

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Exit polls for Western Maharashtra: BJP says predictions wrong, MVA hopes for a comeback

June 02, 2024 11:44 pm

Umesh Patil, spokesperson for NCP–led by Ajit Pawar, which is part of the Mahayuti, also concurred that in Mahayuti, everyone is expecting to win 32–35 seats.

"Until we see the exact numbers, it is very difficult to say what the impact will be on the Congress," Shashi Tharoor said. (Express file photo by Jasbir Malhi)

Shashi Tharoor interview: ‘Exit polls have gone overboard … Worst-case scenario, there will be considerable improvement in Congress, Opposition performance’

June 03, 2024 9:49 am

“I am utterly shocked (by exit polls forecast for south India) … Unless there is some mysterious magic, BJP cannot win a single seat in Kerala,” says Congress’s Thiruvananthapuram MP

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Lok Sabha Elections: Exit polls results vary widely for 3 states that hold key to BJP show

Exit polls predict another term for Modi, Congress far away from majority mark

May 22, 2019 10:09 am

The BJP-led NDA government is projected to get a clear majority in the Lok Sabha elections, according to various exit poll results telecast after the mammoth seven-phase polls came to an end on Sunday.