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Exit Polls for 2019 Maharashtra And Haryana Assembly Elections – What’s the Mood of Voters

The voters of Maharashtra and Haryana have locked the fate of all the candidates contesting in the 2019 Assembly polls of the two states. On 21^ttOctober 2019, elections were held for 90 assembly seats in Haryana and 288 seats in Maharashtra. This year 3,237 can...

BJP Wrests in Himachal Pradesh with Overwhelming Majority

Himachal Pradesh has the record of changing governments every election since 1985, and this time too Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), following aggressive campaign, wrested power with an overwhelming majority winning 44 seats in 68 members Assembly, reducing Congress to just 21 seats with most of the Cabinet Ministers of Congress also losing elections. Results were declared on 18 December 2017 of t...

BJP’s Sixth Straight Win in Gujarat is a Big Victory as it beats Five Term Anti-Incumbency

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lead by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party President Amit Shah has won elections in Gujarat for the sixth time winning 99 seats - 54.4% of the total 182 seats and got 49.1% vote share. It faced a tough battle against a renewed Congress that got 80 seats – 43.96% of total seats and 41.4% vote share, under the leadership of newly elected party president Rahul Gandh...