EFSAS comments on keenly contested state elections in 5 Indian states
December 1, 2023
While exit polls yesterday suggested wins for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in two of these states, they predicted victory for the Congress Party in two others, and a hung Assembly in Mizoram. The final results, however, will only be known on 3 December when the votes are counted. Some analysts have opined that these elections, held just six-odd months before the nationwide general elections are due in 2024, will be an indicator of how the parties would fare then. However, the experience of 2018-2019, the last time when a similar sequence of elections was enacted, would suggest otherwise.
