Exit Poll Chhattisgarh Results 2019: BJP projected to maintain edge over Congress

The Chhattisgarh Lok Sabha elections exit poll results say BJP is likely to loose two to three seats to Congress, while maintaining the advantage.

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Exit Poll Chhattisgarh Results 2019: BJP projected to maintain edge over Congress
Chhattisgarh has 1,89,16,285 voters, comprising 94,77,113 men, 94,38,463 women and 709 third-gender persons. (Photo: IANS)

The exit poll results for Chhattisgarh predict at least two to three seat loss for the Bharatiya Janata Party even as it may still maintain an edge over the Indian National Congress.

India Today-Axis My India Exit Poll for Chhattisgarh Lok Sabha elections 2019 predicts that the BJP is likely to emerge victorious at seven to eight seats in Chhattisgarh, while the Congress may get three to four seats on May 23, when the counting of the votes will be taken up. In 2014, BJP had won 10 out of 11 seats in the state.

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In Chhattisgarh, some exit polls have projected neck and neck fight between the Congress and the BJP as the CVoter gave 6 seats to the NDA and Jan Ki Baat 5-6 seats.

Polls for 11 Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh were held in three phases on April 11, 18 and 23. Naxal-hit Bastar (ST) constituency was the only seat to go to polls on April 11. Maoists tried to hinder the polling process through IED blast in Narayanpur district, which comes under Bastar constituency but no injury or casualty could take place due to special security measures with the deployment of 80,000 security personnel.

Polls to Kanker (ST), Rajnandgaon and Mahasamund seats were held on April 18 in the second phase.

The remaining seven Lok Sabha seats - Surguja (ST), Raigarh (ST), Janjgir-Champa (SC), Raipur, Durg, Korba and Bilaspur witnessed polling on April 23.

The India Today Group released the results of the India Today-Axis My India Exit Poll today on May 19.

Chhattisgarh has 1,89,16,285 voters, comprising 94,77,113 men, 94,38,463 women and 709 third-gender persons. The number of voters between 18-19 years of age is 4,60,394 in the state, he said.

The state has 23,727 polling booths, of which 5,625 are in critical areas. The state has total 15,758 service voters.

During 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the state had a total of 1,76,64,520 voters.

The Congress, which ended the 15-year-long regime of the BJP in the mineral-rich Chhattisgarh in December 2018, has claimed that it would be winning majority of the state's seats in the counting to be held on May 23.

The Bharatiya Janata Party said that it would repeat 2014 performance when it had won 10 out of the 11 seats.