Maharashtra recorded a voter turnout of 45.53 per cent till 3 pm on Wednesday in the elections to the 288-member state le

The BJP was projected to be the largest party with 92-107 seats, followed by Shinde's Shiv Sena with 53-58 seats and Ajit Pawar's NCP getting 25-30 seats.

Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that BJP-led Mahayuti will get the benefit with increase in voting percentage, and their government will be formed in Maharashtra.

While three out of seven exit polls predict a hung assembly, the majority lean towards a victory for the ruling Mahayuti alliance.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party is leading in one of the two recent state elections with a small margin, according to exit polls, while the opposition alliance is trailing closely behind.

The Mahayuti alliance is forecast to win the Maharashtra election, according to two new exit polls that came on Thursday, a day after voting ended in the most densely contested election in the state with factions of two major parties fighting.

Exit polls accurately predicted the NDA's victory in Maharashtra but failed to gauge the scale of their win. Conversely, most polls incorrectly predicted an NDA victory in Jharkhand, where the Congress-JMM alliance is projected to win.

In the Maharashtra assembly election 2019, the BJP won 105 seats, the undivided Shiv Sena won 56 seats and the undivided NCP won 54 seats.