Odisha Assembly Election Exit Poll 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may surprise Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal again, this time in the assembly elections. Axis My India exit poll predicted the BJP could win 62-80 seats in the recently concluded parliamentary elections. According to opinion polls conducted by Axis My India and India Today, the BJD could win between 62 and 80 seats this time, compared to 113 seats in the 2019 parliamentary elections.
The 2024 Odisha Legislative Council elections aim to elect 147 members of the Odisha Legislative Council, the results of which will be declared on June 4, 2024. The Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Odisha are being held simultaneously, in four phases, from May 13 to June. 1.
Odisha Lok Sabha exit poll results: Axis My India estimates 18-20 seats for BJP
India Today-Axis My India estimates that the BJP will win 18-20 seats in Odisha in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, while the BJD will win only 0-2 seats. In terms of vote share, the BJP is estimated to get 51 percent of the votes, the BJD 33 percent and the Congress 13 percent. The India Today-Axis My India exit poll is based on 5.8 lakh interviews conducted in 543 parliamentary constituencies.
According to the C-Voter poll, the BJP is likely to win 17-19 of the 21 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha, while the BJD is likely to win only 1-3 seats. According to the News18 poll, the BJD will win only 6-8 seats, while the BJP can win with 15 seats.
Odisha has 21 seats in the Lok Sabha, some of which are reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates. In the 2019 elections, the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD won 12 seats, the BJP won eight seats, and the Indian National Congress (INC) won only one seat.
Main competing parties
The main political parties competing are: Biju Janata Dal contesting 147 seats, Bharatiya Janata Party with 147 seats, Indian National Congress with 145 seats, Communist Party of India (Marxist) with 7 seats.
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik has been in office for over 24 years. If he gets another term, he will surpass former Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling to become the longest-serving state chief minister in Indian history.
Other prominent candidates: Pradipta Kumar Naik (BJP), Dilip Kumar Ray (BJP), Sidhant Mohapatra (BJP), Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak (BJD), Pratap Keshari Deo (BJD), Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo (BJD), Niranjan Pujari (BJD ) ). ) ), Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo (BJP), Jayanarayan Mishra (BJP), Sarada Prashad Nayak (BJD), Pratyusha Rajeshwari Singh (BJP), Suresh Pujari (BJP), Prasanna Acharya (BJD), Jagannath Saraka (BJD), Ranendra Pratap. Swain (BJD), Pradip Kumar Amat (BJD), Bhaskar Madhei (BJP), Mohan Charan Majhi (BJP) and Niranjan Patnaik (Congress) are some of the leading candidates from Odisha.
Constituencies matter
Hunjungi, Kantabanji, Digapahandi, Nayagarh, Bhandaripokhari, Sambalpur, Brajarajnagar, Jharsuguda, Rourkela, Pipili, Anandpur and Keonjhar are some of the major assembly constituencies in Odisha.
Out of the polls: Assembly Elections
The majority in the 147-seat Odisha Assembly is 74.
VK Pandian on Saturday claimed that the ruling party in Odisha will win 115 of the 147 Assembly seats and get 15 of the 21 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state. Regarding Lok Sabha on 21st.”
The bureaucrat, who is now the BJD leader, also said his party would form the state government with more than three-fourths majority.
In the 2019 Odisha Assembly elections, the BJD won a landslide victory by winning 113 seats, thereby continuing its state rule. The BJP emerged as the main opposition party with 23 seats in the Assembly. In contrast, the Indian National Congress experienced a significant decline in influence, gaining only 9 seats and relegating it to third place in terms of representation.
