exit polls

Don’t flip out over election forecasts

Election forecasters and their predictive models in the presidential race are in the spotlight. Here’s how to understand this work better

Almost all of the exit polls released on June 1 forecast Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies would win more than 350 seats in the lower house of the Parliament.

India’s exit polls spark criticism, tears and call for probes

Political analysts point to structural challenges of conducting surveys in a country of almost 1 billion voters, limited resources and inherent biases in surveys