Rajasthan Election results: All you need to know

Going by multiple opinion polls, signs don't look very promising for incumbent chief minister Vasundhara Raje, who is looking to defy history to become the chief minister for two consecutive terms.

Since 1993, power has alternated between Congress and BJP every five years. Despite a series of by-poll losses, Vasundhara Raje is banking on several welfare schemes to deliver political dividends.

During her multiple rallies, Vasundhara Raje had announced loan waivers for farmers, smartphones for more than one crore Bhamashah card holders and 4% cut in value-added tax on petrol and diesel to provide relief ahead of assembly election.


In 2013, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) registered a massive mandate and won 163 assembly seats. The Congress on the other hand managed to bag just 21 seats and 33 percent of the votes. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) managed only three and Independents won seven. The Rajasthan assembly has a total of 200 seats.

All three opinion polls; ABP CVoter, News Nation and Times Now WarRoom Strategies are predicting a Congress win. Rajasthan is important for the BJP and the Congress as it sends 25 MPs to the Lok Sabha. Currently, the BJP has 23 MPs while the Congress has only two.