The BJP was projected to win Uttarakhand assembly polls by various exit polls on Thursday with projections ranging from 35 to 53 seats for the party in the 70 - member house.
The News 24 - Today's Chanakya poll gave the Bharatiya Janata Party 53 seats, the ruling Congress 15 and others two in the hill state.
India Today - Axis poll predicted that BJP would get 46 - 53 seats, the Congress 12 - 21, and others 2 - 6 seats.
India News - MRC exit poll projected 38 seats for the BJP, 30 for the Congress, two for others.
India TV - Cvoter predicted that both the BJP and the Congress had a similar chance at forming the government in the state and projected 29 - 35 seats for both parties each.
It projected two to nine seats for others.
The poll of polls done by CNN - News18 projected the BJP to be getting 38 seats, the Congress 26 and others six, and a similar exercise by NDTV projected the BJP getting 43 seats and the Congress 23 in the hill state.
Exit polls were telecast on Thursday evening after the balloting ended on a seat each in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, which polls were earlier countermanded following deaths of candidates.
Five states - - Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa and Manipur - - witnessed assembly polls in February - March.
The counting of votes will take place on Saturday.