India Today-Axis My India predicts a landslide for the BJP with 288-326 seats in Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party is predicted to win 71-101 seats while the BSP is unlikely to touch double digits.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised to retain power in Uttar Pradesh with a massive majority in the 403-member assembly, India Today-Axis My India exit polls predicted on Monday when the seven-phase state election concluded.
The exit polls predicted a noticeable gain for the Samajwadi Party-led alliance both in terms of the number of seats and voting percentage in the assembly election, but these gains appear to be coming at the cost of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
India Today-Axis My India predicted the BJP to win 288-326 seats in Uttar Pradesh. The Samajwadi Party is predicted to win 71-101 seats while the BSP is unlikely to touch double digits. The BSP may win 3-9 seats, according to the exit polls.
The Samajwadi Party had won 47 seats in 2017 and it was leading in 44 assembly segments in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. This means that the Samajwadi Party is predicted to improve its tally significantly, but from both 2017 and 2019-projection.
However, the predicted gain for the Samajwadi Party comes at the loss of seats for the BSP, which had won 19 seats in 2017 but showed considerable gains in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, in which it led by 65 seats. The BSP and the SP had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election as an alliance.
