EC says counting of votes crossed the half-way mark in most constituencies. BJP has so far received 53℅ of the votes counted, while Congress had 27% and AAP 12.9%
The Election Commission's data has put the BJP's vote share well over 50 per cent in the first half of the counting itself, a historic first for the party, and this was helped by a split in the opposition's votes due to the emergence of the Aap Aadmi Party indicates that the party may break the record of 149 seats won by the Congress under Madhavsinh Solanki in 1985.
For those travelling through the western state, it was clear that voters may have certain issues with the BJP, in power in the state since 1998, regarding its local leadership and certain aspects of its administration but, for most, it did not count before the party's larger governance architecture, ideological thrust and, above all, their faith in Modi.
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