ABP News-Nielsen Opinion Polls: Kejriwal Most Popular CM Candidate With 43% Votes, Most Popular choice for Delhi CM, Delhi CM candidate
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ABP News-Nielsen Opinion Polls: Kejriwal Most Popular CM Candidate With 43% Votes
NEW DELHI: Will the Narendra Modi wave sweep Delhi too when the capital goes to polls early next year? According to an opinion poll, BJP is likely to emerge as the largest party and cross the magic figure with 45 seats in upcoming polls to the 70-member Delhi assembly.
As per the ABP-Nielsen poll, Arvind Kejriwal is the most preferred candidate for the position of Chief Minister with 43 per cent of the respondents preferring him followed by BJP's Harsh Vardhan. It said Congress is likely to bag 7 seats in the 70-seat House in Delhi. The half-way mark in the 70-member Assembly is 36.
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CM candidate |
As per the Opinion poll in Nov '14 |
As per the Opinion poll in Dec '14 |
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Arvind Kejriwal |
39% |
43% |
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Dr. Harsh Vardhan |
38% |
39% |
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Sheila Dikshit |
7% |
5% |
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Satish Upadhyay |
-- |
3% |
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Jagdish Mukhi |
5% |
3% |
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Arvinder Singh Lovely |
-- |
2% |
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Ajay Maken |
-- |
1% |
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Any other (SPECIFY) |
-- |
0 |
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Don’t know/ Can’t say |
-- |
3% |
The survey said around half of the respondents feel that BJP would form the government in the upcoming election while around 38 per cent were of the view that Aam Aadmi Party would do so.
It said 65 per cent of the respondents have rated Arvind Kejriwal's performance as 'good/very good'. Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's performance has been rated as 'good/very good' by a majority of 74 per cent respondents, the survey said.
While Modi remains the most popular leader in Delhi with 58 per cent of respondents surveyed, Kejriwal is the second -most popular leader with 33 per cent support. Rahul Gandhi has the backing of 7 per cent, the survey said.
ABP News-Nielsen said the opinion poll was conducted in 35 Assembly constituencies with 6409 respondents from December 4 to December 8.