Himachal Pradesh Polls: Neck-to-neck race between BJP, Congress
This is set to be a close contest, with the BJP holding a slight edge over the Congress if exit polls are anything to go by.
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Shimla, Dec 8: Early trends in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election display a Neck-to-neck competition between the BJP and Congress. At present both have been tied with both the parties leading in 32 constituencies and the independent leading 4 constituencies.
This is set to be a close contest, with the BJP holding a slight edge over the Congress if exit polls are anything to go by. If the predictions are correct and the BJP returns to power, the party would have managed to buck the three-decade-old tradition of voting out the incumbent government in the state.
Most exit polls, however, predicted that the maximum the BJP could get in the hill state is 40, just six seats more than the halfway mark of 34 in the 68-member House. The India Today-Axis My India poll predicted that the Congress could be ahead, winning 30-40 seats and the BJP 24-34.
Voting for 68 seats in the hill state was carried out in a single phase on November 12.