Assembly Election Opinion/Exit Poll, Survey Result, Who will win in Assembly Elections 2016

Times Now C-Voter Survey predicts 200+ seats for BJP-led NDA in 2014 LS polls; 89 for Congress ,National Lok Sabha election 2014 survey

The poll projection gives Aam Aadmi Party three out of seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi and one each in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Haryana and a Union Territory, making up a total seven for the debutant political party. The biggest loser, according to the survey, will be the ruling Congress party. The Grand Old Party is expected to win just 89 seats, losing 117 across the country and in just about every state.

The sole saving grace for Congress and the only state in which BJP will lose seats is Karnataka, according to the survey. But the loss there won't be huge, according to the pollsters, who put it at just eight seats.

BJP is expected to gain 86 seats more than its 2009 tally, primarily from Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Bihar, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Delhi, rising to 202 from 116. It's also seen winning one seat in Kerala, where the party is yet to win a parliamentary  or assembly seat or even come second in such a race.

However, BJP's support swell doesn't seem that evident in Uttar Pradesh, where the survey gives the party 34 out of 80 seats. At the height of its popularity in the state in the 1990s, BJP had 57 seats. This was before Uttarakhand was carved out of Uttar Pradesh.

NDA is expected to scale up its vote share by 10%. BJP's alliance partners in NDA, Shiv Sena, Shiromani Akali Dal and Republican Party of India, are also seen

doing well. The biggest gainer, interestingly, won't be NDA, but 'others', whose tally will rise to 215 from 125 in 2009. Going by the survey's findings, this block will be almost equal in number to NDA and could become a decisive factor, depending on how the post-poll scenario develops. The survey was conducted between January 15 and February 8, and is based on a sample size of 14,142 respondents across 28 states.

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