West Bengal Lok Sabha Exit Poll Result 2024: The Lok Sabha 2024 elections, the eastern Indian state of West Bengal has gone to polls in 7 phases to elect 42 members of Parliament from the state. It is now set to go into the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha polls for 9 seats, scheduled for June 1, Saturday, between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.
‘The City of Joy,’ will witness polling into Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jaynagar, Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin, and Kolkata Uttar parliamentary constituencies across the state, witnessing fray between parties like AITC, Congress, BJP and CPI(M).
Once the voting process concludes on June 1, tomorrow, the exit polls will begin, providing early indications of potential winners before the official results are declared. However, the actual counting of votes for the Lok Sabha polls will take place on June 4, marking the culmination of the general election process. Here is all you need to know.
As the 2024 Lok Sabha elections unfold, the exit poll results for West Bengal are scheduled to be released on June 1. Following the Election Commission guidelines, the exit polls will start coming up after 6.30 p.m., after the conclusion of voting, providing early insights into the electoral dynamics in the state. One can track the latest exit poll predictions and analysis right here on indianexpress.com, along with the most comprehensive Lok Sabha election coverage.
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.