West Bengal Election 2021: Polling for the 8-phase West Bengal Assembly election was lastly concluded on Thursday and now the outcomes for the 294 meeting seats are slated to launch on May 2 after the counting of votes is concluded.
While 5 states underwent polling for his or her respective meeting, the West Bengal election turned essentially the most publicised and talked about due to the extreme face-off between the ruling TMC and BJP.
Significantly, CM Mamata Banerjee left her house seat Bhawanipore to place up a combat towards former protege now BJP Leader Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram.
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There was intense campaigning by all events which later got here below scrutiny because the mass rallies have been believed to be instantly contributing to rising Covid circumstances within the state whereas the pandemic scenario took an unsightly flip.
While a straight combat is anticipated between the BJP and the TMC on many of the seats, the CPI (M)-Congress-ISF alliance has made the battle triangular on a number of seats.Â
The state has recorded a mean of round 80 % polling.
2016 Results Vs ABP C-Voter Exit Poll Projection
ABP News together with C-Voter carried out an Exit Poll to know the temper of voters in West Bengal. As per the survey, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is anticipated to make vital inroads in Bengal with bagging as a lot as a 39 % vote share versus a mere 10 % vote share in 2016 Assembly polls.Â
On the opposite hand, TMC is about to largely keep its stronghold whereas dropping only a 2.6 % vote share. The larger shock is predicted for the Congress+Left alliance which is almost definitely to safe solely a 15 % vote share versus the Congress & Left alliance that had secured a big 38 % vote share in 2016 Assembly polls.Â
Seat Range
According to the survey carried out by C-Voter, CM Mamata Banerjee-led TMC is anticipated to get someplace round 152 to 164 seats within the 294-member West Bengal Assembly. In 2016, it had secured 211 seats so is projected to lose round 60 seats.Â
Meanwhile, the BJP, which at present has 3 seats in West Bengal, is more likely to bag someplace between 109 to 121 seats within the state. The Congress and Left alliance will handle to safe round 14 to 25 seats. In the 2016 Assembly elections, Congress+Left had managed to bag 76 seats.
The magic determine required within the state is 147, the minimal seats required for a celebration or a coalition to stake a declare for the federal government formation.
The outcomes of the Assembly elections held in 5 states/UT — West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry — might be introduced on May 2.Â
[The present opinion poll / survey was conducted by C Voter Services Pvt. Ltd. The methodology used is Computer Assisted Telephonic Interviews [CATI] for Opinion Polls and Face to face methodology for Exit Poll and the pattern measurement for a similar is 2,30,500 (sum of all opinion and exit polls in all states) & the survey was carried out throughout the interval January 1, 2021, till the top of elections within the 5 states. The similar can also be anticipated to have a margin of error of +/-3% at Macro degree and +/-5% at Micro Level and will not essentially have factored in all standards / elements and was broadly primarily based upon solutions offered by the respondents throughout the interviews.]
