This Article is From May 16, 2016

What Poll Of Exit Polls Say About Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala And Assam: Live Updates

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Counting for assembly elections in schedule for Assembly polls in four states - Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Union Territory Puducherry will be held on May 19. As the voting ends today, we tell you what the exit polls have to say.
May 16, 2016 20:57 (IST)
Assam picks BJP, Kerala and Tamil Nadu choose change: poll of exit polls


May 16, 2016 20:25 (IST)
Times Now-C Voter Exit poll for Puducherry:
DMK+ 14
NRC 9
ADMK+ 5
Others 2
May 16, 2016 20:05 (IST)
A poll of exit polls shows Kerala picking the CPM-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) over the Congress-led UDF.


May 16, 2016 20:04 (IST)
DMK ahead in Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa set to lose: Poll Of Exit Polls



May 16, 2016 19:52 (IST)
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May 16, 2016 19:47 (IST)
India Today figures for Puducherry:


May 16, 2016 19:46 (IST)

May 16, 2016 19:44 (IST)
"Both in Assam and in Kerala, odds were heavily against us. It is not a question of winning or losing, but also the margins and the vote percentage. As long as we manage to give a very good fight that itself would be a very good point in favour of the Congress," says Sharmistha Mukherjee.
May 16, 2016 19:41 (IST)
Siddharth Vardarajan on Tamil Nadu exit poll figures:



  • If you look at the past trends, there is a reason to believe this
  • But the way the arithmetic has played out, it would have improved DMK's performance
May 16, 2016 19:39 (IST)
Times Now- C Voter figures for Kerala

LDF- 78
UDF- 58
BJP+ 2
Others -2
May 16, 2016 19:28 (IST)
May 16, 2016 19:25 (IST)
Trinamool Congress' Derek O'Brien on exit poll figures:

  • I don't know what the numbers are but we will wait for the 19th.
  • There has been a negative campaign run against us by the BJP, Cong-Left.
  • There was a media-fixer in Calcutta who tried to do everything to prevent the TMC from winning
May 16, 2016 19:23 (IST)
"As I understand there are couple of polls one of which show a narrow win for the LDF. I am not yet ready to write off the Congress. But if it turns out so, it will be because of current pattern of changing governments," says Shashi Tharoor.
May 16, 2016 19:21 (IST)
In Kerala we have got the anti-incumbency factor. If the BJP was in the same position, they would have had to face the same situation. We are quite confident we will win in Assam, says Congress' Sharmistha Mukherjee.


May 16, 2016 19:19 (IST)
May 16, 2016 19:18 (IST)
If the BJP opens its account (in Kerala) it would mean they have proved themselves as a serious player, says Siddharth Vardarajan.


May 16, 2016 19:16 (IST)
India Today figures for Kerala

LDF - 94
UDF - 43
BJP+ 1
Others - 2
May 16, 2016 19:14 (IST)
The poll of polls -which aggregates different exit polls - shows the BJP and its allies get 73 of a possible 126 seats in Assam -an easy win.


May 16, 2016 19:12 (IST)
News Nation figures for West Bengal

TMC - 153
Left+Cong - 136 (91+45)
BJP - 0
Others - 3
May 16, 2016 19:09 (IST)



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