Bihar Election Times Now-C Voter Exit Poll 2020: Mahagathbandhan to win 120 seats, 116 for NDA

Bihar Election Exit Polls 2020 Live Updates: The RJD, which leads the Mahagathbandhan, is projected to emerge as the single-largest party with 85 seats. The BJP, which is in the ruling NDA camp, is forecast to win second-highest seats with 70.

Voting for the third and final phase of the ongoing Bihar assembly elections came to an end at 6pm. A total of 78 assembly constituencies went to polls in the third phase after 71 constituencies voted in the first phase on October 28 and 94 in the second phase on November 3. With the voting over, various news channels will release their projections on who will be victorious in these polls. This exercise is called an ‘exit poll.’

Voters stand in a queue to cast their votes during the polling of third and final phase of Bihar assembly election in Vaishali on Saturday (ANI Photo)

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Earlier, the Election Commission of India (ECI) had banned exit polls between 7am on October 28 to 6:30pm on November 7. After 6:30pm, Times Now, just like other news channels, will project its predictions on the Bihar assembly elections 2020, through an exit poll conducted in association with C-Voter. The official counting of votes will take place on November 10.

CHANNEL/AGENCY	JDU+	RJD+	LJP	Others
Times Now-CVoter	116	120	01	06
NewsX-DVResearch	110-117	108-123	04-10	08-23
News 18-Today’s Chanakya	55	180	-	08
India Today-Axis My India	69-91	139-161	03-05	06-10

It is to be noted that an election exit poll, not always known to be correct, is a poll of voters taken immediately after they exit the polling stations

Here are the latest updates on Times Now C-Voter exit poll:

*Mahagathbandhan projected vote share: RJD (22.9%). Congress (9.4%), Left (4%)

*NDA projected seat share: BJP (20.40%), JD(U) (15.10%), VIP (1.20%), HAM (1%)

*Mahagathbandhan projected seat break-up: RJD (85), Congress (25), Left (10)

*NDA projected seat break-up: BJP (70), JD(U) (42), HAM-S and VIP (two each)

*Projected vote share: NDA (37.30%), Mahagathbandhan (36.30%), LJP (8.50%), Others (17.50%).

*RJD single-largest party at 85, followed by BJP at 70. JD(U) and Congress projected to win 42 and 25 seats respectively.

*Times Now-C Voter projects hung house; UPA: 120, NDA: 116, LJP: 1, Others: 6

*Times Now-C Voter exit poll data from 6:30pm.

*Voting for the third and final phase of the Bihar assembly elections ended at 6pm on Saturday. Various news channels, including Times Now, will come out with their projections for these polls, through their exit polls.