West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry Assembly elections 2016 - Exit polls: As it happened

Exit polls at the end of five-state elections on Monday evening predicted a Trinamool sweep in West Bengal, a BJP win in Assam, a Left victory in Kerala but the verdict was split over Tamil Nadu.

Delhi: The high-octane Assembly elections in five states - West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry came to an end on Monday.

While the voting in West Bengal and Assam had concluded earlier, polling was held for 232 Assembly seats in Tamil Nadu, 140 in Kerala and 30 in Puducherry today.

After the polling, various exit polls predicted that Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala had voted for change.

On the other hand, it was said to be advantage DMK in Tamil Nadu.

Counting of votes will take place on May 19.

Following are the updates:

16 May 2016

20:12 IST

Today’s Chanakya News X seat projection for Kerala: LDF - 75 ± 9, UDF - 57 ± 9, BJP+ - 08 ± 4 and Others - 0 ± 1.

20:08 IST

India TV-CVoter exit polls: In Puducherry, the DMK-Congress combine is projected to win 10-18 seats.

On the other hand, AINRC is projected to win 5-13 seats, AIADMK 1-9 seats, BJP 0-2 seats and Others 0-4 seats in a House of 30 members.