After 2 Hours, ECI Vote-Counting Trends Show BJP Forming Government In Delhi

Early counting trends showed BJP leading, with 39 seats at 10:00 AM, while AAP led with 23. However, EC's official counting confirmed the BJP's comfortable win, surpassing the 36-seat majority.

Delhi Election Results: Election Commission officials at a vote counting centre in Delhi.

Source : PTI

As the early trends of counting on news channels showed flip-flops in leads, the Election Commission's vote counting showed the BJP comfortably sail past the magic figure of 36.

At 10:00 AM, the BJP was leading on 39 seats and the AAP was ahead in 23 assembly constituencies. CM Atishi was behind as Ramesh Bidhuri led in Kalkaji, while former CM Arvind Kejriwal maintained a slim lead over BJP's Parvesh Verma.

Congress had zero leads at 10 AM. By 10:05 AM, the BJP's lead had reduced by 1 while the AAP gained ground on 27 seats.

What Exit Polls Predicted

Most exit polls predicted a tight contest between the BJP and the AAP, with the exit survey results leaning towards a win for the saffron party. The Matrize Exit Poll showed a BJP edge with 35-40 seats, with the Aam Aadmi Party close behind with wins in 32-37 seats and Congress getting a maximum of 1 seat. The Chanakya Strategies survey showed the BJP crossing the halfway mark with 39-44 seats, AAP getting 25-28 seats, and Congress getting 2-3 seats.

The People's Pulse exit poll, too, predicted a decisive win for the NDA with victories on 51-60 seats and the AAP getting just 10-19 seats. Congress, the survey estimated, would score nil.  

People's Insight exit poll projected 40-44 seats for the BJP, 25-29 seats for the AAP, and a maximum of 1 seat for the Congress. The P-Marq exit poll predicted 39-49 seats for the BJP, 21-31 for AAP, and a maximum of 1 victory for Congress. The JVC exit poll suggested a similar trend, predicting 39-45 seats for the BJP, 22-31 for the AAP, and 0-2 for Congress.

 

However, exit polls have been known to go completely wrong, especially in recent times as we saw in Haryana. Even in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and Maharashtra elections, the exit surveys predicted NDA wins but missed the mark on the victory margins.