Exit Poll 2024 today: Take a look at how accurate predictions were in 2019, 2014

Exit Poll 2024 today: The largest festival of democracy will conclude on Saturday after the voting for the seventh and the end of the last phase of polls on 57 seats, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Varanasi. The conclusion of the mammoth electoral exercise today will be followed by exit polls, which will start pouring in from Saturday evening.

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Most exit polls will start as soon as the voting period officially ends. The Lok Sabha Elections 2024 results will be declared on June 4. Until then, these exit polls will strive to predict the final outcome of the general elections.

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Amid colossal anticipation surrounding the Lok Sabha 2024 exit polls, Congress on Friday announced to not participate in any exit poll debates on television news channels. The party decided to abstain from participating in exit poll debates by calling them “speculation and slugfest for TRP”.

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Congress's criticism is rooted in a patchy record of exit poll predictions in India. In many cases, these exit polls have been widely off the mark. Before the announcement of exit polls for the Lok Sabha elections 2024, take a look at the accuracy of these exit poll results in the previous two general elections.

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Lok Sabha Elections result in 2019

In the Lok Sabha elections 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)- led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) secured a second consecutive victory. The alliance emerged victorious by winning 353 out of 543 seats. Out of the total seats won by the NDA, the BJP won 303 seats. The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was limited to nearly 93 seats.

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Lok Sabha Elections 2019 exit polls

Lok Sabha Elections 2014

The BJP-led NDA alliance toppled the Congress-led UPA government in 2014 with a landslide victory. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the NDA alliance won 336 seats, whereas the Congress-led UPA won 60 seats. Take a look at the exit poll data for the Lok Sabha elections held in 2014.

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Lok Sabha Elections 2014 exit polls

Despite discrepancies in previous Lok Sabha exit polls and actual results, political pundits and common people will be keenly waiting for exit poll results, which will start emerging soon after the voting period officially ends this evening. The Lok Sabha Elections 2024 results will be announced on June 4.