Gujarat Election Exit Poll Result 2022: Axis My India predicts 129-151 seats for BJP

Gujarat Election Exit Poll 2022: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to win another term in Gujarat with most exit polls predicting 122-plus of 182 seats. Axis My India has predicted 129-151 seats for the BJP, which has been ruling the state for 27 years. The AAP, which was hoping to emerge as the second-largest party, is expected to get 9-21 seats while Congress is expected to win 16-30 seats, according to Axis My India.  

Gujarat Exit Poll Results 2022

Axis My India: 129-151 (BJP) | 16-30 (Congress) | 9-21 (AAP) 
TV9: 125-130 (BJP) | 40-50 (Congress) | 3-5 (AAP)
Jan Ki Baat: 117-140 (BJP) | 34-51 (Congress) | 6-13 (AAP)   
ETG-TNN: 139 (BJP) | 30 (Congress) | 11 (AAP)

Ahead of the election, four opinion polls published in October and November predicted a win for the ruling BJP with the seats ranging from 104 to 143. 

Gujarat went to polls in two phases on December 1 (89 seats) and 5 (93 seats). For decades, Gujarat has been seeing a bipolar contest between the BJP and Congress. However, this time, Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has made the fight triangular in some assembly segments. The top brass of the Congress was largely missing from Gujarat, leaving the battleground open for AAP to take on the BJP.

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The saffron party, which has been in power for the last 27 years, is seeking yet another term in Gujarat. For BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah led the campaign for another stint while Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy CM  Manish Sisodia spearheaded the AAP's rallies and roadshows.  

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In the last election held in 2017, the BJP was reduced to double digits for the first time in decades, this happened due to a massive Patidar reservation protest led by Hardik Patel. The Congress capitalised on the anger among people and bettered its tally from 61 in 2012 to 77 in 2017.

However, Hardik Patel, who was the face of the protest in 2015, joined the BJP earlier this year, delivering a jolt to Congress which was banking on young blood to make a comeback in Gujarat.  

In 2017, the BJP secured 49.09 per cent vote share and won 99 seats - 16 less than what it had got in 2012. In 2012, the saffron party had bagged 115 seats with 47.85 per cent vote share. 

The highest the BJP has got in the last three decades is 127 seats with 49.85 per cent vote share in 2002. In 2007, the tally dropped to 117 with 49.12 per cent votes. The Congress, on the other hand, got 51 seats in 2002, 59 in 2007, 61 in 2012, and 77 in 2017.

The AAP had also contested in the last election but could not make any impact. 

The Election Commission (EC) will take up the counting of votes on December 8.