Exit Poll 2024 Highlights: Narendra Modi predicted to return for third term

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu, urging her to do justice to fallen Agniveer soldiers by ensuring the same benefits as any soldier who makes the “highest sacrifice for our motherland.”

Exit Poll 2024 LIVE: The Election Commission of India thanked all stakeholders involved in the polling, including voters, polling personnel, security forces, media and political parties, as voting concluded for the Lok Sabha elections held over seven phases.

Pollsters are expected to soon reveal the results of the exit poll for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as voting concluded at 6pm today.

Exit Poll 2024 results LIVE: Voting for the final phase of Lok Sabha elections has concluded and the pollsters are expected to release the exit poll results shortly.

Exit Poll 2024 results LIVE: A voter turnout of 58.34% was recorded till 5pm the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections. West Bengal maintained its trend to report relatively high turnout with nearly 70% polling.

Exit Poll 2024 results LIVE:Congress leader Jairam Ramesh claimed that Union home minister Amit Shah has been “calling up DMs/Collectors” and has spoken to 150 of them so far.

“This is blatant and brazen intimidation, showing how desperate the BJP is. Let it be very clear: the will of the people shall prevail, and on June 4th, Mr. Modi, Mr. Shah, and the BJP will exit, and the INDIA Janbandhan will be victorious. Officers should not get under any pressure and must uphold the Constitution.”

Exit Poll 2024 results LIVE: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed that the opposition coalition would win more than 295 seats while the ruling NDA would get restricted around 235 seats.

“The INDIA bloc is moving forward to form a strong government,” Kejriwal told reporters after meeting of alliance leaders in Delhi.

Exit Poll 2024 results LIVE: BJP IT cell Amit Malviya attacked the Congress party for withdrawing its decision to skip the debate on exit poll results within 24 hours.

“24 hours after making a complete fool of themselves, Congress withdraws its decision to boycott Exit Polls. A party that can’t take such a simple decision wants to govern India?” Malviya posted on X.

Exit Poll 2024 results LIVE: The voting in the seventh phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha election is expected to conclude at 6pm. The exit poll results will be out shortly after the polling ends.

Exit Poll 2024 result LIVE: Posting a riddle on social media, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav claimed that BJP voters have shifted to opposition parties which would result in INDIA bloc doubling its seats while the saffron party would diminish by half.

Exit Poll 2024 result LIVE: The Congress party has gone back on its decision to skip the debate on exit poll saying all the INDIA bloc members will participate in the debates on television this evening.

“INDIA parties met and decided to expose the bjp and its ecosystem on the prefixed exit polls,” Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said on X.

“After considering factors for and against participating in the exit polls, it has been decided by consensus that all the INDIA parties will participate in the exit poll debates on television this evening.”

Exit Poll 2024 result LIVE:While most of the pollsters predicted a majority for the NDA, some pollsters projected the saffron party falling short of the magic figure on its own. Among them were CVoter, and NewsX-Neta. In fact, NewsX-Neta projected 242 Lok Sabha seats for the NDA, 110 less than what it actually got.

Exit Poll 2024 result LIVE: Today's Chanakya was among the few pollsters that predicted a massive win for the NDA. While Today's Chanakya exit poll results projected 350 seats for the NDA, the ruling alliance got 352 seats.

Exit Poll 2024 result LIVE:Among pollsters, India-Today Axis My India was the closest to the actual results in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. India-Today Axis My India predicted 353 seats of the BJP-led NDA, which secured 352 seats in Lok Sabha.

Exit Poll 2024 result LIVE:India Today-Axis My India, ABP – C-voter, News24-Today’s Chanakya, Republic TV- PMARQ-Matrize, Times Now–Bulls Eye, NDTV India–Jan Ki Baat, TV9 Bharatavarsh–Polstreat are among the major pollsters to release exit poll results for 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Exit Poll 2024 result LIVE:The exit polls for the 2019 general election were also largely accurate in predicting a big victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies. Most exit polls predicted a clear majority for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which matched the actual outcome where the NDA won a significant majority in the Lok Sabha.

Exit Poll 2024 result LIVE:While exit polls can be quite accurate, they are not infallible. Their reliability can be affected by sampling errors, response bias, and voters' decision to not disclose their choices.

Pollsters typically position themselves outside a representative sample of polling stations, hence the name exit poll. They ask voters to anonymously fill out a questionnaire detailing their vote and sometimes their reasons for their choices, as well as demographic information such as age, gender, income, and education level.

Exit polls are surveys conducted immediately after voters leave polling stations. These polls aim to gather data on voters' choices and demographic information to predict the outcome of an election before official results are available.

The meeting of INDIA bloc leaders is underway at the residence of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge in Delhi.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav arrived in the national capital to attend the meeting of opposition coalition leaders. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, AAP MP Raghav Chadha, Jharkhand chief minister Champai Soren, and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Anil Desai have already arrived in Delhi for the key meeting ahead of Lok Sabha election results.

When asked about Congress's decision to participate in the exit poll debates, Tejashwi Yadav said, “You tell me who are the people conducting these exit polls and which one of these should we take seriously? The fact is, we have been on the ground, among people, and we have a first-hand sense of the public mood”.

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, who spearheaded the Lok Sabha polls campaign for the INDIA bloc, asserted that the opposition coalition would form the next government at the Centre.

"The INDIA coalition will form the government after results are out on June 4. The NDA will be voted out", Yadav said.

Over 35% of the 1.62 crore voters in Bihar cast their votes by 1 pm on Saturday in the final phase of the Lok Sabha elections. Voting began at 7 am across eight constituencies: Patna Sahib, Patliputra, Arrah, Karakat, Jehanabad, Buxar, Nalanda, and Sasaram, and will continue until 6 pm. As of 1 pm, the highest voter turnout was in Patliputra at 40.78%, followed by Karakat (39.53%), Buxar (37.79%), Sasaram (37.12%), Jehanabad (36.66%), Arrah (33.07%), Nalanda (32.94%), and Patna Sahib (29.22%).

By 1 pm , voter turnout in the final phase of elections in nine Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal was 45.07%, according to an EC official. The highest turnout was in Basirhat (50.89%), followed by Jaynagar (48.27%), Barasat (47.49%), Diamond Harbour (47.33%), and Mathurapur (47.03%).