#Data #GujaratVerdict reached over 136M people in India alone

The Gujarat Elections not only polarized the Indian social media janta but also created an unprecedented social media trend around a State Election. Let's take a look at some of the most popular hashtags, Influencers and the Reach and Impressions managed by all the Tweets generated.

The most popular hashtags during the Gujarat Elections and after were, #GujaratElections, #GujaratElections2017, #GujaratResutls, #ElectionResults and more. The most popular and most used hashtag that topped the list was #GujaratVerdict which was used more than 33K times.

The hashtag #GujaratVerdict also managed to Reach more than 136M people in India alone!

More than 8.15Billion Impressions were calculated by Twitter about the Gujarat Elections as of 18th December.

Whereas more than 270K unique number of users were recorded talking about it.

These were some of the most engaged Influencers during the Gujarat Elections containing names such as Maps Of India, Zee 24 Kalak, NationalVoice, TV9Gujarati, Bayside Journal and more.

Here is a list of some of the most valuable Influencers led by Chetan Bhagat who owned one of the most engaging Tweet that managed the top number of impressions.

News publications such as Times Of India, NDTV, Times Now, and journalists such as Rajdeep Sardesai, Barkha Dutt and more made the list of most valuable influencers.

The most used keywords were dominated by the words Gujarat Verdict, and Modi and BJP.

The top three most engaging tweets were as follows, belonging to the Sir Ravindra Jadeja parody account, journalist Rahul Kanwal and Chetan Bhagat.

1. 

Engagement: 1296.5
Impressions: 1013428

2. 

Engagement: 925.7
Impressions: 3933411

3. 

Engagement: 1023.7
Impressions: 11225586

A by-the-numbers depiction of the public sentiment on social media around the Gujarat Elections, and how Positive, Neutral or Negative were the reactions.

New Delhi outperformed all the other Indian cities in terms of all three sentiments expressed.

Media share in terms of Gujarat Election 2017 was recorded on Twitter with a dominating 99.7% leaving rest to News.

Twitter dominated the media platform in terms of conversation with more than 99% of the talk happening on the microblogging platform.

The Gujarat Elections Social Media Data is by QuickMetrix and is exclusive to Social Samosa.