Almost all the exit polls werespot on in predicting Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in Gujarat but a majority of them were off the mark when it came to forecasting the victory margin for the saffron party.

Most of the exit polls had predicted over 110 seats for the party but it could only manage 99 seats in the 182-member assembly in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah.

In Himachal too, predictions by some exit polls that BJP will get in excess of 50 seats in the 68-member assembly were not accurate.

According to the final results by the Election Commission (EC), the BJP won 99 seats, securing a majority in the 182-member Gujarat assembly.

The Congress won 77 seats.

Almost all exit polls by various media houses had predicted over 110 seats for the BJP in Gujarat where the party has been ensconced in power for close to two decades now.

In the 2012 assembly polls, the BJP had won 115 seats, the Congress 61 and others six.

An exit poll by Today's Chanakya had given BJP 135 seats in Gujarat and predicted a measly 47 for the Congress, 14 less than the opposition party had in the current assembly.

However, the exit poll was correct in predicting a voteshare of 49 per cent for the BJP as according to the EC, the BJP's vote share stood at 49.1 per cent.  -- PTI