Exit polls predict hung verdict in K’taka; edge to Cong

Exit polls on Wednesday predicted a decent contest between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata social gathering within the high-stakes Karnataka meeting polls with most pollsters giving an edge to the grand outdated social gathering.

IMAGE: First-time voters pose for images at a selfie stand after casting votes for Karnataka meeting polls, at a polling station, in Hubballi on Could 10, 2023. {Photograph}: PTI Photograph

India At this time-Axis My India predicted a transparent majority for the Congress with 122-140 seats within the 224-member meeting and gave the BJP 62-80 seats. It gave 20-25 seats to the Janata Dal-Secular, the third main participant within the race.

Information 24-At this time’s Chanakya additionally forecast a majority for the Congress with 120 seats as towards 92 seats for the BJP and 12 for the JD-S.

The consequence for the three-cornered contest between the ruling BJP, the Congress and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda’s Janata Dal (Secular) shall be introduced on Saturday.

Whereas the ABP Information-C Voter exit ballot predicted that the Congress would get 100-112 seats, BJP 83-95, JD-S 21-29, the Republic TV-P MARQ forecast that the Congress will get 94-108 seats, the BJP 85-100 and JD-S 24-32.

The India TV-CNX exit polls gave the Congress 110-120 seats and the BJP 80-90 seats. They predicted 20-24 seats for the JD-S.

The TV9 Bharatvarsh-Polstrat exit ballot acknowledged that the Congress is prone to get 99-109 seats, the BJP 88-98 and the JD-S 21-26 whereas the Zee Information-Matrize Company predicted that the Congress would get 103-118, the BJP 79-94 and the JD-S 25-33.

The Information Nation-CGS ballot stated the BJP would get 114 seats, the Congress 86 and the JD-S 21. The Suvarna Information-Jan Ki Baat forecast that the BJP was prone to win 94-117, Congress 91-106 and the JD-S 14-24.

Instances Now-ETG exit polls gave 113 seats to the Congress and 85 to the BJP. It predicted 23 seats for JD-S.

Reacting to the predictions, the Congress tweeted, “Because the exit polls roll in, it is turning into more and more clear that the Congress social gathering is on monitor for a convincing victory.”

It tagged screenshots of exit polls by India At this time-Axis My India and Information 24-At this time’s Chanakya, each of which predicted a transparent majority for the Congress.

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, nevertheless, rejected the exit polls and asserted that his social gathering will win with a transparent majority.

Speaking to reporters in his residence constituency Shiggaon, from the place he’s within the ballot fray, he stated, “Our floor report says we’ll win with absolute majority. Allow us to wait until Could 13.”

Within the 2018 Meeting elections, BJP emerged as the one largest social gathering by profitable 104 seats out of whole 224, adopted by the Congress at 80 and JD-S at 37. There was one impartial member, whereas BSP and Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janata Get together (KPJP) had one legislator every.

With no social gathering having a transparent majority and because the Congress and the JD-S have been making an attempt to forge an alliance, B S Yediyurappa of BJP staked a declare and shaped the federal government. Nonetheless, it needed to resign inside three days forward of the belief vote, unable to muster the required numbers.

Subsequently, the Congress-JD-S alliance shaped the federal government with Kumaraswamy as CM, however the wobbly dispensation collapsed in 14 months as 17 legislators resigned and got here out of the ruling coalition and defected to the BJP, facilitating it to return again to energy.

Within the by-polls held subsequently in 2019, the ruling social gathering received 12 out of 15 seats.

Within the outgoing Meeting, BJP has 116 MLAs, adopted by the Congress at 69, and JD-S at 29.