Q. Consider the following statements regarding exit polls and opinion polls:
1. Opinion poll is an opinion survey regarding how electors have voted at an election.
2. There is provision of regulation of exit polls in Representation of People Act, 1951.
3. Currently, exit polls can be telecast only after the conclusion of the last phase of the election.
How many of the above-given statements are correct?
Exp) Option b is the correct answer
Statement 1 is incorrect: Opinion polls is a pre-election survey to know voters’ views on a range of election-related issues. Voters are asked various questions to analyse issues affecting them and the outcome of election. Exit poll is an opinion survey regarding how electors have voted at an election. These are conducted outside polling booths to predict and gauge voting behaviour and simultaneous outcome of election results.
Statement 2 is correct: Section 126A of the Representation of the People’s Act, 1951, puts a ban on exit polls from the period between the commencements of the poll until the closing of the final phase of the poll.
Statement 3 is correct: Currently, exit polls can be telecast only after the conclusion of the last phase of the election.
| Important Tips As per law no person shall conduct any exit poll and publish or publicise by means of the print or electronic media or disseminate in any other manner, the result of any exit poll during the period notified by the Election Commission in this regard. Further, any person who contravenes this provision shall be punishable with imprisonment of upto two years or with fine or with both. |
