New Delhi: Most exit polls – that began beaming at 6 pm – gave Aam Aadmi Party a comfortable win in the elections.
The Republic TV exit polls gave AAP a 51-52% vote share and the BJP a 38-40% vote share with a 4-5% vote share to the Congress and 5% to other parties.
It projected that the Arvind Kejriwal-led party would win 48-61 seats, while BJP would remain a distant second with 9-21 seats. The Congress, as per this poll, would again draw a blank as it did in 2015.
The Times Now-IPSOS exit poll survey also gave a complete majority to AAP, projecting it to win 44 seats. It said BJP would win the remaining 26 seats with Congress (despite a 6% vote share) and other parties not even getting close to victory on any. It gave AAP 51% vote share and BJP 40.5%.
The TV9-Cicero survey gave 54 seats to AAP, 15 to BJP and one to the Congress.
Some other media groups provided partial details of their exit polls while polling was still on in some booths.
The ABP-C-Voter exit poll gave details of 10 seats, of which it said AAP would win 7-9, the BJP 1-3 and the Congress 0-1.
The India Today Axis poll, which was the most accurate during the Haryana elections, also showed AAP headed for a majority.
It said the party was expected to win 23-28 of the 30 seats in West, North East and North West Delhi with BJP likely to win just 2-7 seats here.
(With PTI inputs)