Wales Win 3-5 regional-list seats, under-performing polling expectations.
While in terms of constituency-level polling, expectations range from Clegg's party outperforming nationwide figures in their strongholds to other figures showing the party being wiped out even in its safest seats.
Support for Nigel Farage's party was in line with polling expectations and although the party ended up with only one seat, the fact that Ukip won 3.9 million votes and came second in more than 100 constituencies implies that any movement to the Tories wasn't a crucial factor.
Instead, Sanders not only beat the frontrunner, but eclipsed her by a large margin, outperforming polling expectations.
Even if anchors aren't projecting winners before the polls close, the post-5 p.m. exit poll expectations can set the tone for early coverage, as was the case in 2016. .
Essentially, due to the lack of polling and the lack of any trends breaking the tie, calling Nevada means deciding whether Hillary will edge Bernie out as she did in Iowa, or whether Bernie will outperform polling expectations, as he did in New Hampshire.
But it is not impossible — Mr. Romney underperformed polls and expectations in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri on Feb. 7, for instance.
A8 Israelis Vote Today Polls hardened expectations that Ariel Sharon, the right-wing Likud Party leader, would win a resounding victory over Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Democratic women rallied around Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, according to statewide exit polls, confounding expectations and providing her margin of victory over Senator Barack Obama.
