Exit polls differ on West Bengal, Tamil Nadu; give Assam to BJP, Kerala to Cong

Exit polls connected Wednesday agreed that the BJP-led confederation would triumph Assam comfortably, the UDF would unseat the LDF successful Kerala and the AINRC-BJP harvester would clasp Puducherry but disagreed connected the result successful Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.The astir startling prediction was Axis My India's projection of Tamil Nadu being a choky contention betwixt the Vijay-led TVK (98-120 seats) and the DMK confederation (92-110) - successful that bid - with the AIADMK-led NDA reduced to an also-ran successful the 234-member House. The different 3 exit polls being taken into relationship present each gave the DMK-led conjugation a majority, though a reduced 1 from 5 years earlier.

On West Bengal, portion Axis MY India did not merchandise its findings connected Wednesday and immoderate different well-known pollsters excessively preferred to hold for different day, of the 3 polls here, the 1 by P Marq projected BJP to astir apt triumph a bulk successful the 294-member assembly and Matrize gave the saffron enactment the borderline though not a bulk successful a authorities it has ne'er won successful the past.

The 3rd poll, People's Pulse, successful contrast, projected a decisive TMC triumph that would springiness Mamata Banerjee a 4th consecutive word of office.All 4 exit polls suggested that the NDA was apt to triumph a two-thirds bulk successful the 126-member Assam assembly, which would besides mean BJP for the archetypal clip winning a bulk connected its ain successful the northeastern state.The Congress-led confederation was projected to container betwixt 24 and 40 seats.

If Left loses, it volition not beryllium successful bureau successful immoderate stateIn Kerala, the statement was that the UDF would triumph though the projections ranged from arsenic small arsenic 70 of the 140 seats astatine the bottommost of the Matrize scope to 90 astatine the apical extremity of the Axis My India range. The LDF was projected to extremity up with astatine champion 69 seats, which would mean that the Left would for the archetypal since 1977 not beryllium successful bureau successful immoderate state. Exit polls person had a patchy grounds successful India. The results volition beryllium known connected Monday, May 4.