The ABP Ananda poll gave the ruling party 178 seats, while the Left-Congress alliance has been predicted to get 110 seats. Today’s Chanakya gave 140 to the DMK-Congress alliance, 90 to AIADMK and 4 to the Progressive Welfare Front (PWF) headed by Vijayakanth. If proven correct, it would be the first time the BJP would hold power in a Northeast state. In West Bengal, even though the Left joined hands with the Congress, Ms Banerjee seems to have emerged stronger by consolidating her hold on the state. In Kerala, pollsters predicted the Left-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) would wrest power from the United Democratic Front (UDF).The exit poll results came on Monday evening after voting gave over in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

The Congress, which saw hope and revival after the Bihar Assembly election, might slip back into its downward spiral with the exit polls indicating that the party was going to lose power in Assam and Kerala and that its alliance with the Left Front had failed to stop the Trinamul charge to retain power for a second term in Bengal. After back-to-back electoral defeats in Delhi and Bengal, an electoral victory in Assam will boost the BJP. BJP and Others have been projected to get up to 5 seats each. The BJP is likely to get 0 to 3 seats. Apart from Assam, the exit polls said two more states — Tamil Nadu and Kerala — and the Union Territory of Puducherry had voted for change.R.India TV showed the LDF getting 74 to 82 against UDF’s 54 to 62. In Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the exit polls indicated the DMK-Congress alliance would return to power in both places. The state Assembly has a strength of 234 seats.

Today’s Chanakya gave BJP an overwhelming 90 seats against Congress’ 27 and AIUDF’s 9. India Today-Axis-My India has projected a landslide victory of 233 to 253 seats for the Trinamul Congress in a House of 294 while the Left-Congress alliance is tipped to get 38 to 51. In Assam, the India Today-Axis-My India poll gave the saffron alliance 79-93 seats in a House of 126.The BJP, meanwhile, might open its account in Kerala and add to its lone MLA from Bengal where Today’s Chanakya predicted ppr all plastic ball valve the saffron party would win as many as 14 seats. The News Nation poll handed over 114 to 118 seats to the DMK front, 95-99 to the AIADMK and 4 to the BJI. The BJP may get up to 3 seats. Times Now C-Voter projected the BJP as getting 57 seats and Congress 41, while AIUDF and others are set to get 18 and 10, respectively.

All exit polls on Monday predicted a saffron alliance sweep in Assam, the gateway to the Northeast. The ABP Ananda poll gave the BJP-led alliance 81 seats, the Congress 33, AIUDF 10 and others 5. Meanwhile, West Bengal looks set to remain with the Trinamul Congress. West Bengal, exit polls stated, is the only one which may withstand the wave of change sweeping across the states.If the pollsters are proved correct on May 19, the day the votes are to be counted, it would be curtains for 15 long years of Congress rule under Mr Tarun Gogoi in Assam. Congress is likely to get 8 to 12 and Others up to 2, according to the India Today-Axis-My India poll. The AIADMK is tipped to get 1-4 while the ruling All-India N. Only C-Voter struck a discordant note, predicting the AIADMK would win 139 seats against 78 for the DMK alliance. The India Today-Axis-My India poll gave 88 to 101 seats to the LDF and 38 to 48 to the UDF. C-Voter predicted 78 for the LDF, 58 for UDF and 2 for BJP.

In Kerala, the pollsters say the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) will wrest power from the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF), maintaining the revolving-door trend of change in every election.In Puducherry, the Congress-DMK alliance is predicted to get 15-21 seats in the 30-member Assembly. The Congress has been projected to get 26-33 while the AIUDF headed by Mr Badruddin Ajmal is set to get 6-10 seats. The India Today-Axis-My India survey gave DMK and allies 124 to 140 seats and AIADMK 89 to 101. Jayalalithaa would lose her state the DMK-Congress alliance. The BJP and Others are projected to get 4 seats each.. Pollsters predicted that incumbent Tamil Nadu chief minister J