Now that the polling is over in Telangana, results of many exit poll results were out in the press as well as in the social media within an hour or so after polling ended at 05:00 p.m.

Counting of votes in Telangana would be taken up on Tuesday (11th December); votes would also be counted in four other States: Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Mizoram which had voted in the past couple of weeks.

K. Chandrasekara Rao, the ‘care-taker’ chief minister and president of the ruling TRS, claimed that during campaigning and the run-up to the polling, he could sense a ‘very strong pro-incumbency wave’ across the State. Rao cast his vote at his native Village of Chinthamadaka in Siddipet Assembly constituency from where his nephew and Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao is contesting the polls.

Two out of three major exit poll results have predicted a ‘cakewalk’ for Rao to retain power. These results pointed out that KCR might win somewhere between 65-70 seats in the 119-strong Legislative assembly.