NEW DELHI, May 17:
Most of the exit polls conducted by various agencies proved to be off the mark except the one which projected 340-odd seats for NDA and 291 for BJP in particular.
NDA has won 336 seats in the elections, with BJP’s tally being 282. Today’s Chanakya that had conducted the exit poll for News 24 channel on May 12 had projected 340 for NDA and around 70 seats to UPA, with an error margin of plus or minus 14. It proved by-far the most accurate projection among different pollsters.
The Congress-led coalition has won 59 seats.
It gave 70 seats to BJP in UP. The party got 71 while its ally Apna Dal got two.
The exit poll had earlier predicted that Aam Aadmi Party would garner over 30 seats during the assembly elections in Delhi last year. AAP got 28 seats.
The agency had projected a total of 291 seats for BJP, while it gave 70 seats for the ruling UPA.
It also forecast 133 under the others category on May 12 soon after the polling ended after completion of nine phases.
In comparison, the poll on Times Now, conducted by ORG, predicted that NDA would get 249 seats and gave the UPA 148 seats. The CSDS for CNN-IBN predicted that NDA may get between 270 and 282, while UPA was projected to get between 92 and 102. (PTI)
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