Exit poll result 2022 Assembly election: When and where to watch
Exit poll results are popularly conducted by Chanakya, Cvoter, MyAxis India, among others. The exit poll predictions for this year's assembly elections will be released today.
All eyes are set on the results of Assembly elections in five states - Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur - which will end on Monday with the seventh phase of the UP polls. The results of the elections will be revealed on March 10. While we will have to wait till Thursday to see if the BJP retains power in UP, if the Congress can hold on to Punjab or if Arvind Kejriwal's AAP can spring a surprise, the immediate attention will be on exit polls that will be allowed from 6.30 pm on Monday.
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The Election Commission of India has banned the sharing of exit polls between February 10 and March 7 and prohibited media organisations - print and electronic - from conducting or publishing predictions for election results during the mentioned period. "No person shall conduct any exit poll and publish or publicize by means of print or any other manner, the result of any exit poll," the poll body said in its order.
As a result, the exit polls will be reuttarleased after 6:30pm when the final phase of voting concludes in Uttar Pradesh.
What are exit polls and how is it conducted?
Exit polls are predictions made by media organisations using random or systematic sampling methods that forecast winners of elections before the result is out. Predictions are usually built on the basis of questions asked to voters - like which party they voted for and why.
Once all the samples are collected, these organisations decode the political trend for a fair idea on which party or candidate is likely to win from which constituency.
When and where to watch?
The most prominent exit polls in India are usually conducted by Chanakya, CVoter, and MyAxis India, among others, and shown on TV channels including ABP Network, Times Now, India Today, Aaj Tak, Zee News, TV9 Bharatvarsh and others.
Exit polls will be released after 6:30pm, as per the EC guidelines.
This year, elections to the 403-member Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly were held in seven phases on February 10, 14, 20, 23, 27, March 3 and 7.
Voting for Uttarakhand's 70 seats and Goa's 40 seats were held in a single phase on February 14, while the 117-member Punjab Assembly went to the polls on February 20. Elections for the 60-member Manipur Assembly were held in two phases on February 27 and March 3.
The counting of votes in all five states will be conducted on March 10am.
