Bihar exit polls: One predicts win for NDA, others show close contest

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New Delhi: With the end of polling in fifth phase of Bihar assembly elections, every other politician started predicting number of seats for their party with none of them conceding a defeat.

However, the exit polls are skeptical about predicting win for one particular alliance. Exit poll by India TV- Cvoter said the RJD-JD(U)-Congress grand alliance will get 122 seats while NDA is projected to win 111 seats in 243 member assembly seat.

Exit polls by most of other TV channels showed a neck to neck fight between the NDA and grand-alliance except one exit poll by Today's Chanakya which showed clear majority by BJP-led NDA.

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The poll of exit polls i.e an average of all exit polls shows the Grand Alliance getting 118 seats and the BJP and its allies, 117 seats in the 243-member Bihar assembly.

Overall turnout in 5-phased poll in Bihar was 56.8 per cent, highest in any election in the state so far be it Lok Sabha or Assembly the Election Commission said.

Here is what exit polls results after five phases of assembly election say.