When you’re in the middle of a heated election, or a battle of the ideas and the opinions, you can only take so much being caught up in the moment. After that, the moment stops mattering for you.
Not to be a total nazi, but it’s hard to take a poll that is taken on the basis of the results of such a poll. But we’re in the middle of an election and no one really cares if your opponent actually won. They want to make sure you’re taking your votes seriously.
The polls are there to answer questions.
In the latest exit poll of the Indian general elections, it appears that India has found a new way to get out the vote. There are reports that the exit polls have predicted that Narendra Modi will sweep the elections. And that certainly puts Modi in the lead. But there has been no indication that Modi will win. In fact, exit polls seem to be a dying art, so it’s possible that the exit polls are wrong.
It does look like exit polls are going out of style. India’s political parties have been using them for decades. But there are still some polling questions that you need to know. So here are a few of them.
If a party wins a majority on the first count of the election, then all its candidates will be automatically declared the winners. But if the party wins fewer than 50 seats, then elections are postponed. In any case, the result is announced at the end of the counting. There’s a new algorithm that will determine the winner.
The results will be announced at 3:00 pm. So if you have an early dinner, you can find out who wins the election the next day. If you don’t have time for that, you can just vote for whichever party you think will win, and not worry about the actual results.
If your party wins more than 50 seats, then elections are postponed until the next meeting. That meeting is for all parties.
The new algorithms will be able to determine which party is ahead of their rivals. The process will take several days, and will be based on the percentage of voter turnout (a popular metric in India). So if the party that wins 30% of the vote doesnt win the election, then their prospects are grim. The party that does win 30% of the vote does have the potential to win the election, but the numbers wont reflect this.