India, June 25 -- In the run up to the 2019 Indian general elections, a number of organisations conducted opinion polls to assess the mood of the electorate and predict the possible outcome, if elections were held on the date of the survey.

The same organisations conducted such studies again and again and arrived at slightly different conclusions, maybe, due to change of mind of undecided voters. Opinion polls conducted between December 2018 and March 2019 predicted a hung Parliament with the National Democratic alliance (NDA) leading the table and followed by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and others. As elections drew closer, NDA consolidated its position and increased its tally.

Exit polls, conducted after the polling and publis...