Exit polls: Cong winning Haryana with majority, hung assembly likely in Jammu and Kashmir

The counting of votes for both Jammu & Kashmir and Haryana is on October 8.

Published on: Oct 5, 2024, 20:43:55 IST

By HT News Desk, New Delhi

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Months after putting up an impressive show against the BJP-led ruling NDA in the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress-led opposition INDIA bloc has the edge in Jammu & Kashmir and the grand old party is set to clinch an absolute majority in Haryana, exit polls released on Saturday evening showed.

Gurugram, India-October 04, 2024: Polling officials going to vote booth after collect electronic voting machines (EVM) in Gurugram, Haryana, on Friday, 04 October 2024. (Photo by Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times)

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In the first major elections after the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Jammu and Kashmir polled on September 18, 25, and October 1. This was also the first assembly election here in 10 years and the first such exercise since the August 2019 abrogation of Article 370, followed by the then-state becoming a Union territory in October of that year.

Meanwhile, Haryana, where BJP is the ruling party since October 2014, voted on Saturday.

Jammu and Kashmir: A hung assembly is likely in Jammu and Kashmir, projections show. Also, according to exit polls, the BJP will win all its seats from the Hindu-majority Jammu region of the Union territory.

Agency/Pollster	Congress-NC	BJP	PDP	Others
Axis My India	35-45	24-34	4-6	4-6
Dainik Bhaskar	35-40	20-25	4-7	12-16
India Today-C Voter	40-48	27-32	6-12	6-11
People's Pulse	46-50	23-27	7-11	4-6
News 24-Chanakya	35-40	20-25	4-7	6-12

Haryana: The Congress is set to oust the saffron party and form government here for the first time in a decade, projections show. The BJP, already battling anti-incumbency, went into the election facing anger from the state's farmers, its wrestlers and their families, and youth (Agniveer scheme, unemployment).

Agency/Pollster	Congress	BJP	JJP+	INLD+	Others
Dainik Bhaskar	44-54	19-29	0-1	1-5	4-9
India Today-C Voter	50-58	20-28	-	-	10-16
People's Pulse	55	26	0-1	2-3	3-5
Republic-Matrize	55-62	18-24	0-3	3-6	2-5
Jist-TIF Research	45-53	29-37	-	0-2	4-6

However, it must be noted that exit polls often go wrong.

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