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Exit polls predict BJP sweep in Delhi civic polls

Exit polls predict BJP sweep in Delhi civic polls

| | 24 Apr 2017, 11:01 am
New Delhi, Apr 24 (IBNS) : Exit polls predicted a BJP sweep in three civic elections in the AAP-held Delhi voting for which was held on Sunday, medias reports said.

The counting for a total of 270 wards across the three civic bodies will be held on April 26.

The opposition, particularly the BJP, which has been on a dogged pursuit for control of Delhi, had described the election as a referendum on two years of the Arvind Kerjriwal Government.

An exit poll by India Today gives about 80 seats each to the BJP  in north and south corporations and 50 in the east corporation. The AAP is predicted to be far behind in the second place in all three corporations, and the Congress is predicted to be going neck and neck to take the third position.

ABP News, too, has forecast a huge victory for BJP, giving it  88 of 104 seats in the north, 83 of 104 in the south and 47 of 64 in the east. While the ABP exit poll survey gives  predicted a total of 218 seats for BJP , AAP has been given 24 and Congress 22.

Almost half of Delhi’s 13.2 million voters stayed away from polling, as the city recorded a turnout of  of 53 per cent. .

Of the three corporations, the east recorded the highest turnout of 55 per cent, followed by the north’s 54 per cent  and the south’s 50 per cent.
 

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