IANS
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 7
The AAP is most likely to win the Delhi assembly elections with a seat share ranging from 31 to a staggering 53 seats, exit polls said at the end of voting Saturday.
The ABP-Nielsen survey gave the Aam Aadmi Party of former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal 39 seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party 28 seats.Any party will need at least 36 seats to form a government in Delhi. The Times Now-C-Voter survey said the AAP was poised to win 31-39 seats and the BJP 27-35.
The India Today-Cicero put the AAP tally at 35-43 seats and of the BJP at 23-29.
The NDTV survey said the AAP could win 38 seats and the BJP 29.
The Axis-APM poll, however, credited 53 seats to the AAP and 17 to the BJP. All five exit polls put the Congress at a distant third, giving the party zero to a maximum of four seats. Today’s Chanakya exit poll did not give the party break up but said in terms of who would be the best chief minister, Kejriwal scored a high mark of 53 percent.
The BJP’s chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi came a poor second with 36 percent rooting for her. Ajay Maken of the Congress scored six percent support.
The AAP and the BJP were widely seen as the principal contenders for power in Delhi.
Delhi records 67 percent polling
The fiercely fought Delhi assembly election Saturday saw a record voter turnout of 67.08 percent. We are happy to announce this election has been unprecedented in terms of voter turnout. The poll percentage has crossed 67.08 percent,” Chief Electoral Officer Chandra Bhushan Kumar said.
In the 2013 polls, the turnout was over 66 percent. Delhi’s North East district witnessed the highest turnout at 69.89 percent while the New Delhi district registered the lowest at 64.01 percent, the Election Commission said.There were 673 candidates in the fray for 70 assembly seats. Voting took place in 11,763 centres. While balloting was initially slow in many middle and upper middle class areas, polling stations in low income localities witnessed virtual mobs right from the time the exercise began at 8 a.m.
