Election Results 2023: The elections in Rajasthan were held in a single phase on November 25.
The counting of the votes for the Rajasthan assembly polls, which saw a direct fight between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, began at 8 am today. The BJP is currently leading in the state with the Congress in second place. The elections in the desert state were held in a single phase on November 25. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, leading the Congress, is optimistic that the party will defy the long-standing anti-incumbency trend of Rajasthan.
The BJP is set to defeat the Congress and return to power, an NDTV poll of polls indicated. The biggest predictions in favour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party are Republic TV-Matrize, which gives the BJP a massive 115-130 seats, and the Times Now-ETG, which gives it 108-128 seats.
Here are the Highlights from Rajasthan
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Rajasthan Election Results: "Will Play Role Of Strong Opposition": Ashok Gehlot After Congress Loses In Rajasthan "Hearty congratulations to all the Congress candidates who won the Rajasthan Assembly elections. It is hoped that all of you will do a good job in taking forward the policy, ideology and principles of the Congress Party and will play the role of a strong opposition to protect the interests of the people of Rajasthan," says Ashok Gehlot after Congress loses in Rajasthan.
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Rajasthan Election Results: Sachin Pilot "Congratulates New Government" After BJP's Win
Rajasthan Election Results: Vasundhara Raje Expresses "Heartfelt Gratitude" After BJP's Big Win
Rajasthan Election Results:"Humbly Accepting Mandate Of People Of Rajasthan," Says Ashok Gehlot
Rajasthan Election Results: Ashok Gehlot Resigns As Chief Minister
Rajasthan Election Results: Leads At 6:30 pm
The BJP is leading in 115 seats while the congress is ahead in 70.
Rajasthan Election Results: Congress Turncoats Lose Seats In Rajasthan Congress turncoats lost their seats in Bari and Nagaur in the Rajasthan assembly elections on Sunday, the Election Commission's poll data showed.
Girraj Singh Malinga, sitting MLA from Bari who switched over to BJP from the Congress, lost the seat to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate Jaswant Singh Gurjar by a margin of 27,424 votes.
Mr Gurjar secured 1,06,060 votes and was declared winner from the Bari seat.
Hours before the Congress announced the ticket for its Bari seat on November 5, Mr Malinga joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was given the ticket.
Last year, Mr Malinga was accused of thrashing two engineers of the Electricity Department, one of whom is a Dalit. The engineer who belongs to the Dalit community has been bedridden for one year.
Rajasthan Election Results: Leads In Numbers
The BJP is leading in 115 seats while the Congress is ahead in 70.
Rajasthan Election Results: "We Humbly Accept The Mandate": Ashok Gehlot
Rajasthan Election Results: "Congratulate People Of Rajasthan": Amit Shah
Rajasthan Election Results: "I Am A Jansevak": Ashok Gehlot
Outgoing Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said today that he will serve the state even without holding any political office.
"The defeat in three states (Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh) is something to be looked into. The problem of "not bringing in new faces" was not there in Chhattisgarh or Madhya Pradesh. So saying that we (Congress) would have won if we had new faces is wrong," he said.
"I am a Jansevak, I will serve the state even without any post," he added.
Rajasthan Election Results: "Victory Of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vishwas and Sabka Prayaas'": Vasundhara Raje
As BJP is heading to victory in Rajasthan Assembly polls, Former Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Vasundhara Raje on Sunday said the mantra given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vishwas and Sabka Prayaas' has emerged victorious.
According to the recent trends released by the Election Commission, the BJP is leading on 114 seats in a 200-member Assembly whereas Congress is ahead on 70 seats.
Addressing a press conference in Jaipur, BJP candidate Vasundhara Raje said, "This victory is of the mantra 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vishwas and Sabka Prayaas' given by PM Modi. It is the victory of the guarantee given by the Prime Minister. It is also the victory of the strategy given by Amit Shah and the able leadership provided by Nadda ji. Most importantly, it's a victory for our party workers."
"People have rejected the misgovernance of Congress and have elected the good governance of BJP," she added.
Rajasthan Election Results: Leads In Numbers
The BJP is leading in 115 seats while the Congress is ahead in 70.
Rajasthan Election Results: Victory For Sachin Pilot 
Rajasthan Election Results: Loss For CP Joshi 
Rajasthan Election Results: Victory For Rajyavardhan Rathore 
Rajasthan Election Results: Congress' 'Introspection' Meet
Rajasthan Election Results: Defeat For Manvendra Singh 
Rajasthan Election Results: Victory For Ashok Gehlot 
Rajasthan Election Results: Celebrations In Rajasthan
Rajasthan Election Results: Ashok Gehlot To Hand Over Resignation In The Evening
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot will hand over his resignation to Governor Kalraj Mishra in the evening today, sources said, after the assembly poll results showed the BJP was set to return to power in the state.
Sources said Gehlot is slated to meet the governor at 5.30 pm.
Rajasthan Election Results: BJP Leading The BJP is leading in 115 seats while the Congress is ahead in 71.
Rajasthan Election Results: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot At Congress Office
Rajasthan Election Results: Leads
BJP is leading in 112 seats while the congress is ahead in 72.
Rajasthan Election Results: Vasundhara Raje Wins Jhalrapatan
Rajasthan Election Results: Divya Kumari Wins Vidhyadhar Nagar
Rajasthan Election Results: Bharat Adivasi Party Candidate Rajkumar Roat Wins Chorasi Seat
Bharat Adivasi Party (BAP) candidate Rajkumar Roat won the Chorasi assembly constituency in Rajasthan, the Election Commission of India announced today.
This was the first election result from the state where polling was held on 199 seats of the 200 in the House on November 25.
According to the Election Commission, Mr Roat won the seat by a margin of 69,166 votes. He secured 1,11,150 votes.
Rajasthan Election Results: Final Results By 1.30 pm, Says Chief Electoral Officer
Jaipur, Dec 3 Rajasthan Chief Electoral Officer Praveen Gupta on Sunday said that 12 to 17 rounds of counting of votes have been completed and the final result is expected to be declared by 1.30 pm.
As per the trends displayed on the website of the Election Commission of India, the BJP was leading on 112 seats in Rajasthan and the Congress on 71 out of the 199 seats that went to polls on November 25.
"Counting is going on. So far, 12 to 17 rounds of counting have been completed. The results will be declared in around one hour," Gupta told reporters at the counting centre in Jaipur. Results are expected to be declared by 1.30 pm, the official added.
Rajasthan Election Results: Leads At 12:45 pm
The BJP is leading in 113 seats while the Congress is ahead in 70.
Rajasthan Election Results: Leads At 12:15 pm
The BJP is leading in 115 seats while the Congress is ahead in 70.
Rajasthan Election Results: "These Are Early Trends": Rajasthan Congress
Rajasthan Election Results: Early Leads"People Have Endorsed PM Modi's Leadership": Prahlad Joshi
The Bharatiya Janata Party's poll in-charge in Rajasthan Prahlad Joshi said today that his party leading in the state is a testament to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership.
"Results show people accept PM Modi's guarantee of delivering on guarantees," he said.
"People have blessed BJP in three states 9Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh), endorsed PM Modi's leadership and rejected Congress' false promises," he added.
Rajasthan Election Results: Speaker CP Joshi Trailing, BJP Rival Ahead
Rajasthan assembly Speaker CP Joshi was trailing his BJP rival Vishvaraj Singh Mewar in Rajsamand district's Nathdwara seat, while state Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra was leading in Lacchmangarh as early trends for the assembly polls poured in on Sunday.
According to the Election Commission (EC) website, Joshi was trailing by 1,154 votes and Dotasra was leading with a margin of 1,618.
The Rajasthan Congress chief has so far polled 9,907 votes and is ahead of his BJP rival Subhash Maharia. Joshi has got 7,262 votes against Mewar's 8,416.
Rajasthan Election Results: Leads At 11:45 am
The BJP is leading in 114 seats while the Congress is ahead in 64.
Rajasthan Election Results: "The 'Magic' Has Ended": Gajendra Shekhawat jabs Ashok Gehlot As BJP Surges In Rajasthan
With the initial poll trends giving an edge to the BJP, Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat took a jibe at Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, saying people have come out of the spell of the "magician".
"The 'magic' has ended and Rajasthan has come out of the spell of the magician. People have voted for the honour of women and for the welfare of the poor," he said.
Mr Gehlot was born into a family of magicians and assisted his father during his tours.
"People have failed the guarantees of Congress. They have voted to throw corrupt Congress out," Mr Shekhawat told reporters here.
He asserted that the BJP will be forming the government in the state with a huge mandate.
Rajasthan Election Results: BJP Workers Celebrate In Jaipur
Rajasthan Election Results: Leads At 11 am
The BJP is leading in 105 seats at 11 am while the Congress is ahead in 72.
Rajasthan Election Results: Sachin Pilot Leading From Tonk; Ashok Gehlot, Vasundhara Raje Comfortably Ahead
As the BJP is edging towards majority mark in Rajasthan, Congress leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot is leading against the BJP's Ajit Singh Mehta in the Tonk Assembly constituency as per the Election Commission early trends.
Tonk is constituency number 96 of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly.
Former Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot from the Congress party and Ajit Singh Mehta from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are the two important candidates in the Tonk constituency.
Bahujan Samaj Party's (BSP) Ashok Bairwa, Social Democratic Party of India's (SDPI) Abdul Latif, Indian Peoples Green Party's (IPGP) Ganesh, Aazad Samaj Party's (Kanshi Ram) Mohammad Shoeb Khan and Independent candidates Sitaram and Jagdish Prasad Sharma are also in the fray.
Rajasthan Election Results: Update
The BJP is leading in 112 seats while the Congress is ahead in 71.
Rajasthan Election Results: BJP's Divya Kumari Offers Prayers
Rajasthan Election Results: BJP Maintains Its Lead
The BJP has maintained its lead in 108 seats while the Congress, trailing behind, is ahead in 76.
Rajasthan Election Results: "The Lead Will Keep Growing," Says Rajasthan BJP Chief
Rajasthan Election Results: Another Look At The Key Candidates
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot (Sardarpura), former chief minister Vasundhara Raje (Jhalrapatan), former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot (Tonk), state PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasra (Lachhmangarh), RLP convenor Hanuman Beniwal (Khinvsar) are some of the key faces among the 1,862 candidates in the fray.
Sardarpura is on the list of key constituencies as Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has won this seat since 1998. The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded Mahendra Singh Rathore from the Congress' bastion.
Rajasthan went to the polls on 199 of 200 assembly seats on November 25. The majority mark in the state is 100.
In the Karanpur constituency, elections were adjourned due to the passing of Congress candidate Gurmeet Singh Koonar.
Rajasthan Election Results: Early Leads
The BJP is leading in 106 seats while the Congress is ahead in 78.
Rajasthan Election Results
Rajasthan Election Results: BJP Crosses Halfway Mark
The BJP is now leading in 101 seats in Rajasthan while the Congress is ahead in 79.
Rajasthan Election Results: Early Leads
The BJP is leading in 77 seats while the Congress is ahead in 65.
Rajasthan Election Results: Early Leads
Counting of votes polled in the November 25 assembly elections in Rajasthan is being done at 36 centres in the state today, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Praveen Gupta said.
Rajasthan Election Results: Early Leads
BJP is now leading 56 seats in Rajasthan while the Congress is ahead in 51.
Rajasthan Election Results: Early Leads
Congress leading in 42 seats while the BJP is ahead in 35.
Rajasthan Election Results: "Public Has Blessed BJP": CP Joshi
Rajasthan Election Results: Early Leads
Congress is leading in 15 seats while the BJP are ahead in 13.
Rajasthan Election Results: First Leads In
The first leads are in as the counting of votes began in Rajasthan. The BJP has drawn first blood.
Rajasthan Election Results: Counting Begins!
Counting of votes begins!
Rajasthan Election Results: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Exclusive
"It is an exciting day. It's massive governance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi vs massive misgovernance of the Congress. We are confident that the BJP will form the government in Rajasthan with a vast number of seats," Mr Rathore said.
On Rebels
"Anybody who keeps the "nation first" will fight unitedly as the party. People who wanted to take advantage of the party and did not get what they wanted, jumped the ship. In terms of reaching out to the independents, the senior leaders will do it," he said.
Rajasthan Election Results: Heavyweights - Divya Kumari 
Rajasthan Election Results: Heavyweights - Sachin Pilot 
Rajasthan Election Results: Heavyweights - Ashok Gehlot 
Rajasthan Election Results: Key Parties
Much like the last several decades, it's a direct competition between the saffron party and the grand old party in Rajasthan. The two national parties are closely monitoring political developments in Rajasthan and other four states that voted this election cycle ahead of the all-important Lok Sabha polls in 2024.
Rajasthan Election Results: Past Results
The Congress party won the 2018 polls, with 100 seats as compared to BJP's 73. Party veteran Ashok Gehlot was sworn in as the state chief minister for the third time in 2018. In 2013, the BJP had secured a gargantuan majority with 163 seats, with Vasundhara Raje leading the government as the chief minister for the second time. The Congress' strength was reduced to just 21 seats in the Assembly.
Rajasthan Election Results: Total Candidates
What's the total number of candidates in Rajasthan?
The Rajasthan state assembly will get 199 of its 200 MLAs from among the 1,862 candidates in the fray this time. A total of 5,26,90,146 people were eligible to vote in this year's elections.
Rajasthan Election Results: Voter Turnout
What was the voter turnout in 2023?
Rajasthan registered a voter turnout of 75.45 per cent, marginally higher than 2018's 74.71 per cent.
Rajasthan Election Results: Stage Set For Counting
Banking on the Ashok Gehlot dispensation's welfare measures in Rajasthan, will the Congress today buck the trend of the state not repeating a government in the past three decades? In the last six assembly elections, the state voted the BJP and the Congress to power alternately.
While most pollsters have predicted an edge for the BJP in Rajasthan, three exit polls in their upper limit forecast a Congress win in the assembly polls held on November 25.
With varying predictions, nothing is being left to chance. The Congress as well as the BJP have started reaching out to Independent candidates, including rebels, and even smaller outfits in case there is a split verdict.