Chhattisgarh Assembly election results 2023: Who is leading at 2:30 pm?

Trends for the Chhattisgarh Assembly election results are coming at a steady pace from the Election Commission of India (ECI), indicating a majority for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Assembly polls. Chhattisgarh, which went to polls in two phases on November 7 and 17, has seen a heated battle between the Congress and the BJP. The state has 90 parliamentary seats.

Chhattisgarh Assembly Election Results 2023: Who will lead at 2:30 PM?

According to data from the Election Commission of India (ECI), the BJP was leading with 55 seats, followed by the Congress at 2.30 pm on 32 seats. A party or coalition must win 46 seats to form the government in Chhattisgarh. After the tenth round of counting, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel was leading in Patan by over 7,400 votes against his cousin and BJP candidate Vijay Baghel. BJP's Lalit Chandrakar had a lead of over 10,000 votes over Chhattisgarh Home Minister Tamradhwaj Sahu in the Durg (national) assembly. Deputy CM TS Singh Deo was trailing the BJP's Rajesh Agrawal by more than 5,000 votes in Ambikapur.

Chhattisgarh assembly election results 2023: 15.5 million voters cast their votes

According to Chhattisgarh Chief Electoral Officers (CEO) data, a total of 15.5 million voters cast their votes in all 90 parliaments. Of these, 7.81 million were women, while 774,000 were men. The state has 19.7 million voters, including 9.85 million women and 9.82 million men. In 50 parliaments, women outnumbered men in electoral turnout.

Voter turnout was 76.31 percent, which was slightly lower than the 76.88 percent recorded in the 2018 polls. Of the 90 Assembly seats in the state, 51 are in the general category, 10 are reserved for Scheduled Castes and 29 are reserved for Scheduled Tribes.

What happened in previous Chattisgarh Assembly elections?

In 2018, the Congress won 68 seats in Chhattisgarh and the BJP 15 seats. Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J) won five seats, while Bahujan Samaj Party won two seats.