Opinion poll predicts hung assembly in UP polls next year, Uttar Pradesh elections Opinion poll 2017, Mood of UP Survey, SP,BSP, BJP ,Congress
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Opinion pollpredicts hung assembly in UP polls next year, Uttar Pradesh elections Opinion poll 2017, Mood of UP Survey, SP,BSP, BJP ,Congress
The “Mood of UP Survey” conducted by a monthly magazine Parliamentarian says that the ruling Samajwadi Party seem to be losing heavily by as many as 150 seats and the spoils are being shared almost equally by the BJP and the BSP, with the latter having an edge.
In the 403-member Assembly, the BSP, the survey claimed, will gain 89 seats over the 80 seats it has now and the BJP 88 over 47 currently held. The Congress may end up with 13 seats less than the 28 it had got in 2012 elections. The half-way mark for a simple majority is 203.
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| Mood of UP Survey Sep 2016 | |
| Party | Seats |
| SP | 150 |
| BSP | 89 |
| BJP | 88 |
| Congress | 13 |
Referring to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, the survey said 39 percent of the voters rate his performance as bad or very bad, while 33 percent rate him average. But 28 percent voters say his performance has been good or very good, “which suggests anti-incumbency may not be relevant in this case.”
It said BSP supremo Mayawati is leading the pack with 28 percent of voters wanting her as the next CM. But Akhilesh is close behind with 25 percent of popular votes.
The BJP’s most popular leader seems to be Varun Gandhi who closely follows Akhilesh with 23 percent votes. The magazine said the survey which was carried out last month in western, eastern, Avadh and Bundelkhand regions of the state had a sample size 25,000 people.