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Rajasthan Assembly Election 2018: Counting of votes will begin shortly. Stay with us for LIVE updates on Rajasthan election result

Congress leaders Ashok Gehlot (R) and Sachin Pilot (C) flash victory signs as K C Venugopal looks on after the declaration of Rajasthan Assembly election result, in Jaipur

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		<strong>Rajasthan Assembly Election result 2018 LIVE:</strong>&nbsp;Rajasthan kept its 25-year-old record of throwing out the incumbent government. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief minister Vasundhara Raje has resigned. The Congress is yet to choose a Chief Minister.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
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		Raje, despite the defeat of her government, won from her constituency of Jhalrapatan. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
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	A party needs 101 seats in the 200-member <a href="https://www.business-standard.com/elections/rajasthan-assembly-election-2018" target="_blank">Rajasthan Assembly</a>, but the&nbsp;election in one seat was rescheduled after a candidate died. The BJP had won 163 seats in the 2013 <strong><a href="https://www.business-standard.com/elections/rajasthan-assembly-election-2018" target="_blank">Rajasthan Assembly elections</a> </strong>and secured a vote share of 46.03%, a jump of about eight percentage points over 2008. The Congress had bagged 21 seats with a vote share of 34.27%, a fall of two percentage points.<br />
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	Rajasthan has a record of not returning any party to power since 1998 and it flip-flops between the BJP and Congress.</div>
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	The Congress was contesting on 195 seats and had given five seats to its allies &mdash; two each to the Loktantrik Janata Dal and the Rashtriya Lok Dal, and one to the Nationalist Congress Party.</div>
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	The BJP was contesting in all 200 seats on its own.</div>
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Rajasthan election result LIVE: Ashok Gehlot front-runner for CM post

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Ashok Gehlot, Congress: This is a grand victory. We&#39;re forming govt in 3 states what can be better than that. The way Rahul Gandhi tackled Modi and Amit Shah in Gujarat, after that graph of Congress is going up and the graph of Modi is constantly going down. It&#39;s a sign.

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		Avinash Pandey,Congress: Tomorrow there&#39;s a meeting with all elected MLAs at the state Congress committee office,after it Venugopal Ji &amp;I will meet them personally. After it, High command will be told of all the MLAs opinion&amp;in the evening another meeting will be held. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rajasthan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Rajasthan</a> <a href="https://t.co/S0BpQYvsv1">pic.twitter.com/S0BpQYvsv1</a></p>
	&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1072470472493801472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Who will be Congress high command&#39;s pick for the post of chief minister in Rajasthan? Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party will decide soon.<br />

Rahul Gandhi to address the media shortly.

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		Rajasthan: Visuals of Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot and other Congress leaders in Jaipur. Congress party has won 12 seats and is leading on 89 seats in the state. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AssemblyElectionResults2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AssemblyElectionResults2018</a> <a href="https://t.co/a66nrN9d5O">pic.twitter.com/a66nrN9d5O</a></p>
	&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1072451730330279936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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		टोंक में मुझे ऐतिहासिक बहुमत से जिताने के लिए जनता का तहेदिल से शुक्रिया। हम सब मिलकर टोंक और राजस्थान का कायाकल्प कर एक विकसित प्रदेश की नींव रखेंगे जिसमें समाज के हर वर्ग की उन्नति होगी। <a href="https://twitter.com/INCIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@INCIndia</a></p>
	&mdash; Sachin Pilot (@SachinPilot) <a href="https://twitter.com/SachinPilot/status/1072435659485396993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<strong>Rashtriya Lok Dal is leading on 1 seat in Rajasthan.</strong>

Rajasthan&#39;s Water Resources Minister and BJP leader Rampratap loses the Hanumangarh seat to Congress candidate Vinod Kumar with a margin of 15,522 votes.

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					<strong>Rajasthan Assembly Election Result: 199/199</strong></td>
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					4</td>
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					67</td>
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					4</td>
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					98</td>
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					3</td>
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					23</td>
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<strong>Official ECI trends:&nbsp;</strong>Congress leading on 98 seats, BJP leading on 65 seats, BSP on 5, CPM on 2 and others on 16 seats in Rajasthan.

Newly elected Congress MLAs of Rajasthan will meet in Jaipur on Wednesday.

Party	Rajasthan Assembly Election Result: 199/199
	Won	Leading
BJP	4	67
Congress	4	98
Others	3	23

Rajasthan election result LIVE: Ashok Gehlot front-runner for CM post

Rajasthan Assembly Election Result 2018: BJP chief minister Vasundhara Raje has resigned. Congress will select the state's new leader today. Stay with us for LIVE updates on Rajasthan election result