Assembly Election Results 2023: Big boost for BJP, reality check for Congress ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha polls
Assembly Election Results 2023: BJP will go into 2024 brimming with confidence. But like the recently concluded Cricket World Cup, where the final result was not determined by winning the semi-final, the state election results need not accurately predict the outcome of the national elections
Jyotiraditya Scindia credits BJP's 'double-engine' govt, welfare policies as party leads in MP
As per the latest trends available with the Election Commission, the BJP was leading in 161 out of the total 230 seats in Madhya Pradesh, while the Congress was ahead in 66 seats.
MP Election Results: Chouhan hails ‘Ladli Behnas’ as BJP’s focus on women voters pays dividends
For the Ladli Behna scheme, which was announced in January this year and implemented in the first half of the ongoing fiscal, the BJP government had earmarked a total of Rs 8,000 crore in the FY24 budget
Assembly Elections 2023: BJP reaffirms hold over Hindi heartland, Telangana gives Congress its consolation prize
Congress’s claim to being the BJP’s sole pan-Indian adversary came apart after the rout in MP, Rajasthan and potentially Chhattisgarh. This weakens the Congress in the INDIA alliance and opens up space for regional parties like SP, JD(U) and RJD
Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections: Key faces shine as BJP on course to a sweeping victory
The central leadership’s experimental move was aimed at strengthening the organisational muscle, encourage new state-level leadership.
CM Shivraj Chouhan gives credit to PM Modi's poll campaign as BJP leads in Madhya Pradesh
Shivraj Singh Chouhan also said they have properly implemented welfare schemes of the "double engine" government (of BJP at the Centre and in the state).
Madhya Pradesh Elections: Ladli Behna may emerge as new welfare economics template as BJP's set to sweep
There are 5.6 crore voters in Madhya Pradesh. Of this 2.7 crore are women and, in more than 12 percent, or 29, of the 230 Assembly constituencies, women outnumber men voters
Madhya Pradesh Results: BJP will get comfortable majority, Chouhan says, as party leads in 133 seats
Known as an undefeated force in the Budhni Assembly seat, the chief minister has consistently garnered 60 percent or more votes since 2006.
Madhya Pradesh: BJP ahead in 85 seats, Congress in 36
Counting of votes in elections to the 230-member state assembly held on November 17, began at 8 am on Sunday, a poll official said.
Madhya Pradesh Election Results: People's blessings will be with BJP, says Jyotiraditya Scindia on early trends
Speaking to the reporters as initial poll trends favour BJP in Madhya Pradesh, Scindia said, "I have always said that as far as MP is concerned, our schemes of social welfare and upliftment of the poor, people's blessings will remain with the BJP."
Assembly Election Results 2023: What's at stake for the four states?
All eyes will be on the fight between the Congress and BJP as counting of votes begin. Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana Assembly results are being billed as a semi-finals of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The results of Mizoram polls will be declared on December 4 as the Election Commission deferred the counting by a day.
Assembly polls: Counting of votes underway in 4 states
The Congress, which is in power in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, and the BJP, which is ruling Madhya Pradesh, are locked in a straight fight in these three states, while K Chandrashekhar Rao-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is hoping for a hat-trick in Telangana.
Assembly Elections 2023: Who will win? Factors that shaped 2018, 2013 outcomes missing this time
The 2013 assembly polls were influenced greatly by the Modi wave sweeping the country then. Massive anti-incumbency against tilted the 2018 verdict against three BJP governments. In contrast, 2023 is seeing both anti-incumbency and pro-incumbency sentiment. The dominating theme this time is government’s delivery versus opposition’s promises
Assembly Elections 2023: Expect new welfare sops from Centre irrespective of today’s outcome
Competitive welfarism has set in. With Opposition certain to make tall promises to voters for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the central government will attempt to neutralise those with handouts that have an immediate impact and sets the poll narrative in BJP’s favour
Assembly triumphs no guarantee for Lok Sabha victory, data reveals, but can impact national politics
Although Congress had won 54 percentage of the Assembly seats cumulatively in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan in 2018, it failed to use the momentum during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, only winning 4.62 percentage of the seats available.
Madhya Pradesh election results 2023: Modi's influence casts shadow on Congress' prospects
Madhya Pradesh election results: Most exit polls predicted BJP may win in the major state in the Hindi-speaking belt Both the parties rolled out high-octane campaigns featuring their top leaders and made a slew of promises to woo voters across the state.
Assembly Elections 2023: What is at stake for Congress and BJP today?
Congress will need some big wins to drive home a tough bargain with INDIA alliance partners. For BJP, victories will reinforce perceptions that it is headed for three successive Lok Sabha wins and that PM Modi can front assembly polls for the party without needing strong state-level leadership
Battle for Madhya Pradesh: Kamal or Kamal Nath?
The opposition Congress is confident of overthrowing the long-standing BJP government led by Shivraj Chouhan, which has been in power for nearly two decades.
Madhya Pradesh Results Highlights: BJP emerges victorious with 163 seats
MP Election Results 2023 Highlights: BJP sets a landslide victory with 163 seats out of 230, Congress settled at 66 seats.
Assembly Elections 2023: Does voter turnout indicate any electoral trend?
Assembly Elections 2023: Turnout figures don’t give us any indication of pro- or anti-incumbency. Nor does turnout reveal anything about extreme social polarisation at the constituency level. It is just an indicator of whether voters showed interest in the election
Assembly Elections 2023: December 3 won’t impact 2024 Lok Sabha polls but will set campaign ball rolling
Assembly Elections 2023: These elections won’t have much impact on 2024 beyond galvanising or demoralising workers on winning and losing sides. What December 3 will certainly do is bring parties back to strategising for the Lok Sabha polls. The opposition, especially, has much ground to cover including picking a formidable candidate who can be projected against PM Modi
MP Elections 2023: Exit polls add to the confusion in a closely fought contest
The extreme divergence between two prominent polling agencies has made MP tough to call. If BJP wins, credit will go to CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan. But Congress ran one of its best campaigns in MP, though its poll guarantees that worked in other states may have been neutralised by Chouhan’s Ladli Behna Yojana
Assembly Elections 2023: The possibilities for national politics if exit poll projections hold
Assembly Elections 2023: The exit poll projections give both Congress and the BJP a reprieve. Congress can take heart if it wins Telangana and Chhattisgarh. BJP will be reassured by wins in MP and Rajasthan heading into 2024. But the split result forewarns a mad rush of freebie promises that is the antithesis of good economics
Assembly Polls 2023: Exit polls a comedy of errors? Seven reasons why they can go wrong
Assembly Polls 2023: Exit polling is very difficult work. Two notable agencies are differing hugely on exit poll projections for some of the states. Only one of them can be right. From reasons like India’s sheer diversity to shortcomings in sampling and work ethic, exit polling can go wrong for a number of reasons
