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An important update: The BJP is leading in several seats in the Patidar heartland, where the Congress was hoping to turn the tide with Hardik Patel's support.
The leads are coming in thick and fast now. The BJP currently leads 25-13.
Early trends from TV channels suggest the BJP is leading in 7 seats while the Congress is leading in 4.
Counting is officially underway. Expect early trends in the next half an hour, while we should have a clear picture by 10am.
For full coverage of the Assembly election results, click here.
The story of the early trends: How the BJP has fared in Saurashtra.
Leads now available for 65 seats. It's BJP 43, Congress 22.
The BJP is now leading in 34 seats while the Congress is leading in 18 seats.
An important update: The BJP is leading in several seats in the Patidar heartland, where the Congress was hoping to turn the tide with Hardik Patel's support.
REMINDER: To get a majority in Gujarat, a party needs to get 92 seats in the 182-member house.
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani is currently ahead in his constituency of Rajkot West.
The leads are coming in thick and fast now. The BJP currently leads 25-13.
For updates on the Himachal Pradesh results, click here.
The BJP now leads 18 to 5. Important to remember that these are leads only and the picture could change.
It's 11 to the BJP in Gujarat versus three for the Congress.
Early trends from TV channels suggest the BJP is leading in 7 seats while the Congress is leading in 4.
As is with many an election in India, the Gujarat election result is by no means a foregone conclusion and exit polls can easily be proven wrong. In fact, some of BJP’s own allies expressed disagreement with the exit polls, saying the BJP is by no means guaranteed a win when the counting of votes takes place on Monday. Members of the Congress have also made it quite clear that they do not buy the picture exit polls are painting and that the party will surprise everyone with the results.
We'll bring you some early trends soon. Till then, take a look at some of the memorable quotes during the campaign.
Counting is officially underway. Expect early trends in the next half an hour, while we should have a clear picture by 10am.
Upbeat on the eve of the election results, Congress leaders hailed Gandhi's Gujarat campaign as a "winner", saying his issue-based strategy would bring positive results for the party.
Patidar leader Hardik Patel is currently at Somnath temple, seeking divine intervention just before counting begins.
Even though all the exit polls have indicated a win for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been in power in the state since 1995, the final declaration of Narendra Modi's win in his own home turf will hold more significance.
Modi's performance in these elections is likely to reflect the sentiments of people towards the state's growth model as well as Modi government's work and reforms at the Centre. Most importantly, it would map people's reactions regarding two major reforms — GST and demonetisation — that affected every citizen, especially the businessmen community.
What do these results hold in store for the markets? With the exit polls for the Gujarat elections predicting a comfortable victory for the BJP with a single-party majority, the market will only be excited if the results are better than expected. Here are 4 stocks to buy on declines.
All the exit polls predict a clear BJP majority in both Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat. In Himachal Pradesh, the BJP is expected to wrest power from the Congress with a massive majority. In Gujarat, the BJP is projected to win around 110 seats on average, just short of the 115 seats out of 182 it won in 2012.
Last night, the Election Commission withdrew the notice to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his TV interviews hours before the second phase of voting in Gujarat and said it will revisit a provision in the election law under which it was issued.
The watchdog had on December 13 issued the show cause notice to Rahul Gandhi for "prima facie" violating the provisions under the election law and the model code by giving interviews to TV channels.
With all the drama going on around the Gujarat assembly elections, it isn’t immediately apparent if there has been any shift of power in the state. The words exchanged by members of both parties, the contrarian views expressed by members within the party, and the exit polls themselves have combined to form a very opaque smokescreen.
Whether Modi’s son-of-the-soil persona was good enough to woo voters even with him not being around in Gujarat any more, or whether Rahul Gandhi has managed to successfully exploit this gaping hole in the BJP’s leadership in the state, will only be made clear today, when the counting of the votes takes place.
The Congress, on the other hand, has been very vehement in its refutation of the exit poll results. Party leader Shaktisinh Gohil on Friday pointed out that there have been many instances of exit polls being disproven and said that it will happen again on Monday.
Congress Rajya Sabha MP Rajiv Shukla also shared his two bits on the exit poll results, saying the actual results will be the complete opposite of what the exit polls are saying.
On its part, BJP spokesmen tried to put out the fire from within by saying everything will be clear once the election results are out. Anil Shirole, a BJP MP from Pune, said it had not been made clear whether Sanjay Kakade was a primary member of the party.
Sanjay Kakade, a Member of Parliament (MP) representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha, who was elected as an independent candidate but later joined the BJP, on Saturday said the party will not win enough seats in Gujarat to form a government.
“According to a survey by my team, BJP will not get majority in Gujarat… This is based on a survey among voters in both rural and urban areas," Kakade told a TV channel in Pune. He added that the elections were not “fought on a plank of development… emotional issues occupied the prime slot.”