Himachal, Gujarat elections: No exit poll results before Dec 14 evening, says EC


New Delhi, Nov 7 (PTI): Exit poll results for Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat assembly elections cannot be made public before December 14 evening, the Election Commission (EC) said on Tuesday.

While the single-phase assembly election in Himachal Pradesh will be held on November 9, the first phase of polls in Gujarat will take place on December 9. The second phase will be held on December 14.

But exit polls showing outcome of the Himachal Pradesh polls cannot be shown till both the phases of Gujarat polls are completed.

A poll panel order citing election law said "conducting any exit poll and publishing or publicising by means of the print or electronic media or dissemination in any other manner, whatsoever the result of any exit poll in connection with the current general elections to the legislative assemblies of Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat shall be prohibited" between 8 am of November 9 to 6 pm of December 14.

It also said displaying any election matter, including results of any opinion poll or any other poll survey, in any electronic media, would be prohibited 48 hours prior to the day of the Assembly election.

The existing law allows the EC to ban opinion polls 48 hours prior to voting.

In a separate statement, the commission said that TV channels, radio stations and cable networks should ensure that the contents of the programmes beamed by them 48 hours before the election day "do not contain any material, including views/appeals by panelists/participants that may be construed as promoting/prejudicing the prospect of any particular party or candidate or influencing/affecting the result of the election.

  

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  • KRPrabhu, Mangalore /Bangalore

    Wed, Nov 08 2017

    Exit poll is just daily jotishya in TV by various fake astrologers...

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  • Rajesh, Udupi

    Wed, Nov 08 2017

    So crooked and puppet EC is........ why they have to wait to declare Himachal Pradesh result till Gujrath elections are over ? because that result has huge impact on Gujarath election!, so EC is helping whom ? you guess.....

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Bengaluru/Katapadi

    Wed, Nov 08 2017

    Exit poll need to be banned since it misguides the voter more than guiding

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  • Af,,, Mangalore

    Wed, Nov 08 2017

    Based on exit poll result party workers celebrating their party victory, must be banned any exitpoll

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  • Ponkra, Dubai

    Wed, Nov 08 2017

    Congress is loosing in exit poll thats why this comment....

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  • Rathan, Mangalore

    Wed, Nov 08 2017

    Smr
    If you r really worried about this you could have filed a petition in the court
    of law.s how we can beleive Ur news /story . moreover it looks like u r anti
    BJP so it was Ur primary duty to file a complaint.as you have not done this
    it looks u r also playing in the hands of some other Political Party and spreading
    rumours without any facts/ figures

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  • Deva, Pilar

    Tue, Nov 07 2017

    Total Ban must be imposed on Exit polls..all parties should wait for real results.

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Tue, Nov 07 2017

    In what may be the first major violation of the election code of conduct by the media in recent years, the Dainik Jagran group publishers of the largest circulating Hindi daily in the country released the results of an exit poll report soon after polling for 73 seats in the first phase of UP assembly elections was held on February 11. The published report claims that the Bharatiya Janata Party will emerge as the top party in the first phase, followed by the BSP and the SP-Congress combine.
    The Dainik Jagran report said that the findings came from an organisation called ‘Resource Development International’ (RDI) but mentioned no further details of either the organisation or the party which commissioned the survey.
    A Google search of Resource Development International turned up a human resource company in Gurgaon with no background in conducting polls.
    In an email, Rajeev Gupta, managing director of Resource Development International India (Pvt) Ltd, strongly refuted Dainik Jagran’s claim that his company had conducted the poll. Research and Development Initiative which is run by a psephologist, Devendra Kumar, turned up. Kumar’s RDI is one of a handful of polling agencies that are considered close to the BJP. India Today in 2013 described RDI as an agency that worked closely with Jaitley and Vasundhara Raje. RDI’s Kumar is columnist at a number at DailyO, a portal run by the India Today group, and makes no bones about his leanings towards the BJP.
    The poll showed the BJP surging ahead of its rivals and though it was was quickly taken down, the ‘news’ it conveyed was widely circulated by BJP and RSS activists across UP via WhatsApp.
    The exit poll published by Dainik Jagran in contravention of election laws right after the first phase of voting ended in UP was supplied by a senior business executive at the mass circulation Hindi daily who just also happens to be an activist of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
    Despite the violation what action ECI has taken?
    JaiHind

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  • kas, Mangalore

    Wed, Nov 08 2017

    ECI is useless .... It is making the ulloo public to wait for 40 days to get the results of HP elections ... SHAME on ECI ....

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