West Bengal Exit Polls Result 2024: Mamata Banerjee (Express Photo) and JP Nadda (PTI Photo)West Bengal Lok Sabha Election Results Live: In a setback for the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) party in Bengal, three pollsters have predicted that the BJP will halt the TMC’s winning streak in the state. Exit polls, conducted out by Jan Ki Baat, predicted 21 to 26 seats for the BJP while 16 to 18 seats for the TMC this Lok Sabha elections in the state. Republic Bharat-Matrize estimated 21-25 seats for BJP and 16-21 seats for Trinamool Congress whereas India News – D-Dynamics predicted the saffron party to win 21 seats, with TMC close behind with 19 seats.
How accurate were the 2019 exit polls for Bengal? In 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP made clear inroads in Bengal by winning 18 seats, coming close after Trinamool Congress (TMC) that clinched 22 seats. Congress meanwhile got only 2 seats. The pollsters’ predictions were not much different: the exit polls results had shown a neck-to-neck fight between for the saffron party and the TMC, with the BJP expected to win 19 to 23 seats and the Trinamool 19 to 22 seats.
Which parties in fray? In a state, with a government roiled in multiple scams and corruption allegations, all eyes are on whether Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s TMC can still sail through with maximum number of seats or get washed away in the BJP wave. Having rejected the INDIA bloc before the Lok Sabha polls, as well as any seat-sharing adjustment with the Left Front and Congress, TMC supremo Banerjee had later declared her party would provide “outside support” to the Opposition alliance in case it manages to form a government at the Centre.
The cartoon shows West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee kicking a ladder on which Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior BJP leaders can be seen standing on. (Express file photos)
West Bengal Exit Poll Live: What Jan Ki Baat has predicted?
Exit Polls, carried out by Jan Ki Baat, predicted that BJP will get 21 and 26 seats while Trinamool Congress's tally will come down between 16 and 18.
West Bengal Exit Poll Live: Meanwhile, 70% voter turnout recorded in 9 LS seats in Bengal till 5 pm
A voter turnout of 69.89 per cent was recorded in Bengal till 5 pm in the last phase of Lok Sabha polls in which nine seats went to the elections, Election Commission said.
BJP to have edge in Bengal, to sweep overall Lok Sabha polls
Overall, pollsters predict that NDA government will return with a thumping majority. As the exit polls numbers trickle in, four pollsters are predicting a return of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government, winning over 350 seats.
India News-D-Dynamics: NDA-371; INDIA bloc: 125; Others-47
Jan Ki Baat: NDA 362-392; INDIA bloc: 141-161; Others-10-20
Republic Bharat-Matrize: NDA-353-368; INDIA bloc-118-133; Others-43-48
Republic TV-P MARQ: NDA-359; INDIA bloc-154; Others-30
West Bengal Exit Poll Live: Close contest between TMC and BJP, show exit polls
The early numbers, predicted by the Republic Bharat-Matrize, show BJP to have an edge over TMC, that runs the government in the state. Republic TV-Matrize predicted 21-25 seats for BJP and 16-21 seats for Trinamool Congress. According to India News - D-Dynamics, the saffron party is set to win 21 seats, with TMC close behind with 19 seats.
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West Bengal Exit Poll Live: In last phase, both TMC and BJP see a common threat -- a rejuvenated CPM
After six phases of the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, during which the top two contenders – the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and BJP – had their attention fixed on each other, the two have put the CPI(M) in their crosshairs for the seventh and last phase on June 1.
The reason is that while the CPI(M) could still struggle to win any of the nine seats which vote next – spread across Kolkata and its suburbs – it is seeing somewhat of a revival in alliance with the Congress. The question haunting both the TMC and BJP is whose votes will the CPI(M) cut into.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the TMC had won 22 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, and the BJP a surprising 18, with the Congress winning the remaining two. In the 2021 Assembly elections, the CPI(M) had again failed to open its account. Read more
West Bengal Exit Poll Live: Recap of 2019 exit polls in West Bengal
In the last Lok Sabha elections in 2019, BJP won 18 seats, AITC 22, and INC 2. Looking back at the 2019 exit polls in West Bengal, the state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee raised doubts over such surveys and called it a “gameplan” to “manipulate or replace electronic voting machines (EVMs), as the exit polls for West Bengal in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections predicted a neck-to-neck fight between for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Trinamool Congress (TMC), with the BJP expected to win 19 to 23 seats and the TMC winning 19 to 22 seats.
Where is Bengal voting today?
West Bengal is voting in nine seats -- Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jaynagar, Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin, and Kolkata Uttar parliamentary constituencies across the state, witnessing fray among parties like AITC, Congress, BJP and CPI(M).
West Bengal Exit Polls Result 2024 Live: Welcome to Indian Express Live blog!
Hello! Welcome to West Bengal Exit As the final nine seats of West Bengal went to the polls in the seventh and the last phase of Lok Sabha elections today, people across the country eagerly awaits the exit polls results that provide an early indication of potential winners in the elections. Following the Election Commission guidelines, the exit polls will start coming up after 6.30 pm.
Stay tuned for latest updates here!!