Meghalaya Elections: Conrad Sangma's party to emerge as single largest, exit polls show

Meghalaya could witness a hung assembly with none of the parties predicted to cross the majority mark in the state. An aggregate of exit polls shows that Conrad Sangma's party could emerge as the single largest party with 20 seats. The Trinamool Congress is likely to win to 11 seats. The BJP which came to power in the state last time after an alliance with Sangma's NPP has been predicted to win 6 seats and so is Congress.

Both the Times Now ETG Exit and India Today-My Axis polls predicted a hung house in the state described as 'Scotland of the east', even though Meghalaya’s Chief Minister Conrad Sangma remained confident of victory.

"We are happy that exit poll predictions are in line with our belief that we will get more seats than what we did last time ... we are keeping all our options and will do what is in the best interest of the state," Sangma said, in an indication that post-poll alliances were being thought of.

The Times Now ETG Exit poll predicted Sangma's NPP would get 18-26 seats, Trinamool Congress led by former chief minister Mukul Sangma would take 8-14 seats, UDP another 8-14 seats while BJP would improve its tally from two to anything between 3-6 seats.

India Today-My Axis predicted that NPP would bag 18-24 seats, short of majority, forcing it to look towards other parties to shore up figures. It also gave UDP 8-12 seats, Congress 6-12 seats, TMC 5-9 seats and the BJP 4-8 seats.

The Zee News-Matrize exit poll predicted that the National People's Party will retain Meghalaya with 21 to 26 seats. Also It predicted 8-13 seats for Trinamool and 6-11 for BJP.