Polling for the 2026 Assembly elections in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam, West Bengal, and Puducherry officially came to an end after voting concluded for the second and final phase of the West Bengal elections on Wednesday.
According to the first set of exit polls from Axis My India, a clean sweep has been predicted for the incumbent NDA alliance with 16-20 seats, while the DMK-led SPA alliance is touted to get just 6-8 seats.
The remaining 2-7 seats will go to other parties and/or alliances that had contested in the Union Territory (UT). Out of this, the TVK alliance is poised to receive 2-4 seats, while a 1-3 figure has been predicted for the other parties.
This translates into a 40 per cent vote share for the AINRC-led NDA alliance, and a 30 per cent vote share for the Congress-DMK alliance.
Coming in third with a substantial vote share is actor-politician Vijay's TVK, which is expected to get 17 per cent, while the others have been projected to get 13 per cent of the votes in the UT.
Since it has just 30 seats in the Assembly, the TVK's substantial projection—16.8 per cent of that 17 per cent figure—is expected to give it a significant degree of control over the winner of the elections on May 4, in case the main alliances in the fray are unable to cross the majority mark.
People's Pulse has predicted a similar trend, with 16-19 seats projected for the NDA alliance, while it estimated the Congress-DMK SPA alliance would get 10-12 seats.
Only 1-2 seats have been projected for the other contenders in the race to take control in Puducherry.
