Since, there has been rise of around 3 per cent in the polling per cent in the Assembly elections, both the major political parties are claiming that this is in their favour.
PCC Chief Kamal Nath has claimed that this increase in vote percentage is in favour of the Congress, because people came out to vote against the BJP.
He claimed that Congress would win 140 seats and the decision on who would be the chief minister, would be taken by AICC Chief Rahul Gandhi.
Polling concluded in Madhya Pradesh assembly elections on Wednesday and the fate of the candidates has been sealed in the EVMs.
Conventionally, it had been believed that more voting percentage favour the BJP. However, this has not been tested completely all the time.
In 2003, when people had voted BJP to power, the polling percent was around 67.25, which was around 7 per cent more than previous 1998 polls.
Later, in 2008, the poll per cent was 69.28 (around 2 per cent more than 2003) and in 2013, it was recorded at 72. 66 per cent (around 3.5 per cent more than 2008).
This suggested that there has been continuous rise in the polling per cent and thus the present increase in the vote per cent cannot be attributed to any particular party.
Against the claims of Nath, resentment among voters like 2003 was not witnessed among the voters.
The voters remained silent and quietly exercised his franchise. This is for the first time in the State, much enthusiasm was not visible among the voters. Particularly in Bhopal’s seven constituencies, the voter turnout was at around 62.5 per cent, which is quite low.
Since, the elections for Rajasthan and Telangana are scheduled on December 7, it is expected that the exit polls would start pouring in from evening of December 7 and they would indicate which party is going to form government in Madhya Pradesh.