Assembly Election Results 2017: Modi Wave 3.0 Today? Counting Of Votes In Gujarat, Himachal From 8 AM
Results of the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh elections will have a huge impact on the run-up to the 2019 national polls for both the BJP and the Congress.
Here is your cheatsheet to the results of 2017 Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh elections:
Gujarat has 182 assembly seats and a party needs 92 or more to form government. NDTV's analysis of exit polls and other surveys shows that the BJP not only has 90 per cent chance of retaining Gujarat for a fifth straight term, but also has a 35 percent chance of winning more than 130 seats, a landslide victory.
Himachal Pradesh has 68 assembly seats and a party needs 35 or more to cross halfway and form government. Exit polls forecast a sweep for the BJP in the state, which was held by the Congress after the slimmest of wins five years ago.
Late on Sunday evening, the Election Commission withdrew its notice to Rahul Gandhi over a television interview aired after campaigning had ended in Gujarat last week. The BJP had alleged that Mr Gandhi's interview violated election rules.
BJP chief Amit Shah, who is also from Gujarat, had set his party a target of winning more than 150 seats in the state. The BJP had won 115 in the last election, the Congress had won 61. In the 2014 general election, the BJP had in the big "Modi wave" won all the state's 26 seats. The party's landslide win of over 300 of UP's 403 seats was dubbed Modi wave 2.0.
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