Uttar Pradesh: NDA set for a big win again, predict exit polls

Exit Polls 2024: Pollsters on June 1 predicted that BJP-led NDA may improve its tally in Uttar Pradesh compared to the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

Updated on: Jun 1, 2024, 20:06:13 IST

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As voting for the 18th Lok Sabha election concludes, pollsters on June 1 predicted that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Uttar Pradesh will improve its tally compared to the 2019 polls.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Yogi Adityanath during a road show in Varanasi on May 13. (AFP File Photo)

In Uttar Pradesh, which sends 80 members to the lower house of Parliament, the NDA is projected to win 69 to 74 seats, while the INDIA bloc is expected to secure 6 to 11 seats, according to Republic Bharat-Matrize.

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It has also predicted that the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which stayed away from forging an alliance with both the BJP and Congress, may get zero seats in the Lok Sabha election, the results of which will be announced on June 4.

Meanwhile, NDTV-Jan Ki Baat has predicted that the BJP-led NDA has chances of winning between 68 to 74 seats in Uttar Pradesh. However, it has given zero seats to the BSP and 12 to 16 seats to the INDIA alliance.

The Samajwadi Party and the Congress, both constituents of the INDIA bloc, sealed their pre-poll alliance on March 8. As part of the pact, the Congress fielded candidates in 17 seats.

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Another pollster, India News-D-Dynamics, predicted that the NDA can win 69 seats in the state. It has projected that the INDIA alliance can win 11 seats, while the BSP may get zero.

According to the News Nation Exit Poll, the NDA may get 67 seats in the state, while the INDIA bloc is expected to win 11 seats and the BSP would be restricted to zero seats.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, of the 80 seats, the BJP won 62 seats, the BSP won 10, the SP won 5, AD(S) won 2, and Congress managed to secure only one seat.

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