Rajasthan Assembly Election Results 2018: Congress outshines BJP; CM Raje submits resignation to Governor

Rajasthan Assembly election result 2018 LIVE: The fate of 2,274 candidates contesting the Rajasthan Assembly election will be decided today when the counting of votes will be completed by the Election Commission. In the state, About 20,000 employees will start the work from 8 a.m where counting of votes will be done on 35 centres in the state. Earlier, on 7th December, voters had put vote at 51,687 polling booths, 259 of them managed exclusively by women officials and security personnel. The final results will determine whether the BJP bucks anti-incumbency and an increasingly aggressive opposition to return to power.  The ruling BJP is locked in a tough electoral battle in the 199-member assembly and had deployed all its key leaders in the state, which has a tradition of alternating between Congress and BJP every five years.

In the state, BJP’s Vasundhara Raje hopes to return as the state's chief minister and if the Congress wins, it is expected to pick between former chief minister Ashok Gehlot and state party president Sachin Pilot for the top post in the state. Raje was contesting from Jhalrapatan constituency, considered her bastion. This time she faces BJP veteran Jaswant Singh's son Manvendra Singh who has defected to the Congress, complaining that his old party had hurt the pride of the Rajputs by ignoring his father in the last Lok Sabha election. In other constituencies, groups like the Bahujan Samaj Party and rebels who are contesting against official party candidates may queer the pitch.

Number of rallies by main national leaders in Rajasthan

• Narendra Modi – 13 rallies
• Rahul Gandhi – 24 rallies
• Amit Shah – 21 rallies
• Yogi Adityanath – 24 rallies

Here is seats & voting percentage of 2013 results

• BJP – 163 seats (45.17 percent)
• Congress – 21 seats (33.07 percent)
• BSP – 3 seats (3.37 percent)
• Independent – 7 seats (8.21 percent)
• National People’s Party – 4 seats (4.25 percent)
• National Unionist Zamindara Party – 2 seats (1.01 percent)
• Others – No seats (4.92 percent)