BJP rebel Chandrabhan Aakya wins Chittorgarh
Congress candidate Chetan Singh Chaudhary is in second and Jitendra Singh of BJP is trailing in third position from the seat.
Rajasthan assembly elections: As BJP sails smooth, key faces for CM candidate
Amid the celebrations of BJP workers already, key names for chief minister post are coming up, including former CM Vasundhara Raje and Arun Meghwal.
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
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
Rajasthan assembly polls: BJP surges ahead of Congress
The Bharat Adivasi Party and independents were ahead in five seats each while the BSP and CPIM in two each. The RLD, and Aazad Samaj Party were ahead in one seat each, according to the EC.
Rajasthan assembly election results: Vasundhara Raje takes early lead of over 7,000 votes in Jhalrapatan constituency
The former chief minister has got 13,213 votes so far, while Chouhan has got 6,188, ECI website showed
Rajasthan Polls: Ashok Gehlot leading from Sardarpura
According to the Election Commission trends on Sunday, Gehlot is leading with 12,536 votes.
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
If BJP wins, who will be the CM in Rajasthan?
All eyes are on who will become the chief minister, especially since the BJP’s central leadership has fielded many Lok Sabha MPs. Wresting power from Congress is expected to be a significant boost for it.
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.
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
Rajasthan Results Highlights: BJP emerges victorious with 115 seats; Congress secures 69, Gehlot steps down
Rajasthan Results Highlights: Gehlot expressed surprise at the unexpected outcome, and acknowledged the party's shortcomings in effectively communicating their schemes to the public.
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
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
Assembly Elections 2023: Enjoy exit polls with popcorn, but wait till Dec 3 for real picture
The strike rate of polling agencies in 2018 left was poor. Except for Rajasthan, where the revolving door tradition makes it easy for pollsters, more agencies were wide off the mark than correct in MP, Telangana and Chhattisgarh. The last two states witnessed landslides, which few agencies got right
Rajasthan polls: Police seize record Rs 436-crore worth poll 'freebies'
Overall, as per Election Commission figures, illegal inducements worth Rs 690 crore were seized by various agencies deployed by it to ensure free and fair polls in the state where voting was held on November 25 for 199 out of the total 200 assembly seats.
Rajasthan assembly polls: 70% voter turnout recorded, Congress and BJP eye power
After weeks of high-voltage campaigning, the fate of 1,862 candidates rested in the hands of 5,25,38,105 voters across the state.
Rajasthan Assembly Elections: Pilot may not tank in Tonk, but it’ll be a close shave
While a section of voters praise some of the work Pilot has done, there is a certain resentment among others, who complain that the former deputy CM remained busy with internal politics and didn’t pay attention to his constituency.
Rajasthan polls: Over 55% votes cast till 3 pm
The voting percentage till 3 pm was 55.63 per cent, an official said.
