Agreeing that the BJP and its allies won UP, the polls varied according to the extent of the victory, with some giving the ruling alliance just 225 seats in the 403-member House and others suggesting that it should reflect on its impressive performance over five years. Can repeat. Earlier it had won 326 seats.
The least decisive decision in this category was estimated by the Times Now-Veto poll, which gave 225 seats to the BJP and allies, but it was still well clear of the SP alliance’s 151. On the other end of the spectrum, voted India Today-Axis NDA Between 288 and 326 seats, and the SP alliance best at 101 seats.
In Punjab, the estimated seats for the AAP in the 117-member house ranged from 51 to an almost complete sweep of 111. But all the surveys suggested Arvind Kejriwal led party The Congress is in second place with the Akali-BSP alliance in third place and the BJP-led alliance, which includes Captain Amarinder Singh’s budding outfit, in fourth place.
In Uttarakhand, the BJP is projected to win a majority, if only, but an ABP News-CVoter poll gave the Congress a lead and chances of reaching the halfway mark in the 70-member House.
Goa promises to be the closest contest if exit polls are correct, with no one giving a majority to either the BJP or the Congress in the 40-member House. Of the four polls analyzed here, three gave a slight advantage to the Congress, but an ABP News-CVoter poll suggested the BJP had a marginal lead.
The BJP was seen in the driver’s seat in Manipur. An India Today-Axis poll gave the party 33 to 43 seats in the 60-member House, enough for a majority even at the lower end. On the other hand the ABP News-CVoter poll gave the saffron party the best 27 seats. But the Congress was projected to win no more than 16 seats in that election as well, and the NDA-constituent NPP projected to win 10–14 seats, which would mean the BJP would remain in power in the northeastern state.