Chhattisgarh Lok Sabha Election 2024 Exit Poll Highlights: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept Chattisgarh in the last two Lok Sabha elections in 2019 and 2014. BJP won 9 seats in 2019 and 10 in 2014. This time too the saffron party is hoping for repeating its performance. Though the final results will be declared on June 4 by the Election Commission of India, here is most reliable Exit Polls on the Lok Sabha results conducted by India TV-CNX. Polling in the 11 Lok Sabha seats of the state was held in three phases - on April 19, April 26 and May 7.
India TV- CNX's exit poll predicted that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely make a clean sweep in Chhattisgarh. The exit poll predicted that the BJP is likely to win all 11 seats.
Chhattisgarh Exit Poll:
- Total Seats: 11
- BJP: 10-11
- Congress: 0-1
Chhattisgarh records 72.8 per cent voter turnout
According to the Election Commission of India, Chhattisgarh recorded an overall voter turnout of 72.8 per cent in elections to the 11 Lok Sabha seats, registering an increase of 1.31 per cent from the 2019 figure.
The Naxal-affected Bastar constituency (reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidates), where voting was held on April 19, recorded 68.29 per cent turnout. Rajanandgaon, Kanker (ST-reserved) and Mahasamund seats went to polls on April 26 and registered a turnout of 77.42 per cent, 76.23 per cent and 75.02 per cent, respectively.
In the third phase of polling, Surguja (ST-reserved) seat recorded a voter turnout of 79.89 per cent, Raigarh (ST-reserved) 78.85 per cent, Korba 75.63 per cent, Durg 73.68 per cent, Janjgir-Champa (SC-reserved) 67.56 per cent, Raipur 66.82 per cent and Bilaspur 64.77 per cent.
Total of 220 candidates contested in Chhattisgarh
Raipur had the maximum number of 38 candidates, followed by 37 in Bilaspur, 27 in Korba, 25 in Durg, 18 in Janjgir-Champa, 17 in Mahasamund, 15 in Rajnandgaon, 13 in Raigarh, 11 in Bastar, 10 in Surguja and 9 in Kanker.
Key constituencies in Chhattisgarh
- In another key seat Rajnandgaon, BJP's sitting MP Santosh Pandey was pitted against Congress MLA and former chief minister Bhupesh Baghel.
- In the high-profile Raipur seat, the contest was between BJP's incumbent minister Brijmohan Agrawal and Congress' Vikas Upadhyay, a former MLA.
- In Korba seat, BJP fielded former MP Saroj Pandey against Congress' sitting parliamentarian Jyotsana Mahant, wife of incumbent leader of opposition Charandas Mahant.
- In Durg, the Congress chose Rajendra Sahu, a fresh face, against sitting BJP MP Vijay Baghel.
- In Bastar, Congress' firebrand leader Kawasi Lakhma was pitted against BJP's Mahesh Kashyap, a fresh face.
The ruling BJP this time dropped its sitting MPs in Mahasamund and Kanker seats and fielded former MLAs Rupkumari Chaudhary and Bhojraj Nag there, respectively. The Congress fielded former state home minister Tamradhwaj Sahu in Mahasamund and Biresh Thakur in Kanker.
