The party is leading in 152 of 228 seats from where trends are available in Madhya Pradesh, while in Rajasthan, it won two seats and was leading in 144 out of 199 seats.
In Madhya Pradesh, Congress is way behind with its candidates leading in 67 places, while BSP is leading in five seats and others four.
Madhya Pradesh has a 230-member assembly where BJP held 143 seats in the last elections and Congress 71.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is ahead of his Congress opponents from both Budhni and Vidisha seats.
Though several senior ministers including Babulal Gaur, Kailash Vijaywargiya, Vijay Shah, Uma Shankar Gupta, Jagdish Devda and Archana Chitnis are leading, public relations and culture minister Laxmikant Sharma and Anoop Mishra are trailing.
Gaur, a former chief minister, contesting from Govindpura for a record 10th time, is leading by 11782 votes over Govind Goyal of Congress, while Kailash Vijawargiya is ahead at Mhow against Antar Singh Darbar of Congress by 2889 votes.
Ministers Narottam Mishra is leading from Datia, Tukoji Rao Pawar from Dewas, Archana Chitnis from Burhanpur, and Gopal Bhargava from Rehli.
Their colleagues Laxmikant Sharma and Anoop Mishra, a newphew of BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee, are, however, trailing their Congress rivals at Sironj and Bhitarwar respectively.
Former Union minister Suresh Pachouri of the Congress is trailing his BJP opponent and sitting MLA Surendra Patwa by 10,000 votes at Bhojpur.
However, the leader of opposition in the state assembly, Ajay Singh is leading by a margin of 6120 votes from his traditional Churhat constituency.
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh's son Jaivardhan Singh, who is making his electoral debut, is leading over his BJP rival Radheshyam Dhakad at Raghogarh.
In Rajasthsan, the ruling Congress was ahead in 28 seats.
National People's Party candidates were leading in nine seats whereas independent candidates were leading in 8 seats each, according to latest trends.
Candidates of other parties were leading in three seats. BSP candidates were ahead in three seats.
BJP candidate Samaram Grasiya s Pindwara-Abu seat of Sirohi district by defeating his nearest rival of Congress Gangaben Grasiya by a margin of 30855 votes.
Another BJP candidate Gurjant Singh won from Sadulshahar seat of Ganganagar district by defeating his nearest rival of Congress Jagdish Chander by a margin of 4808 votes.
With trends indicating a clean sweep for the BJP, celebrations broke out in the party office with workers congratulating each other.
"We are confident that the party will come to power with clear majority and it will be a thumping victory," said a party worker outside the BJP office.
Chief minister Ashok Gehlot was leading in his Sardarpura constituency of Jodhpur district by a margin of 4,619 votes against his BJP rival Shambhu Singh Khetasar.
BJP state president Vasundhara Raje was leading from her home constituency of Jhalarapatan in Jhalawar district by a margin of 3,923 votes against her nearest rival of Congress Meenakshi Chandrawat.
Discus thrower and Commonwealth Games medallist Krishna Poonia (Cong) is trailing behind her BJP rival Kamla Kaswan on Sadulpur constituency in Churu district.Kaswan is leading by a margin of 22088 votes after ten rounds of counting.
NPP's general secretary and sitting independent MLA Golma Devi is also trailing by 2339 votes from Rajgarh-Laxmangarh seat after first round against Congress and BJP candidates.
Former royal Diya Kumari of BJP is trailing by 6957 votes from Sawaimadhopur seat against Congress and BJP rivals.
Kiran Maheshwari of BJP is leading by a margin of 21372 votes on Rajsamand seat against Congress candidate Hari Singh Rathore.
National People's Party convenor and Lok Sabha Kirori Lal Meena is leading by a margin of 1,675 in Lalsot constituency against Congress and BJP candidates.
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