Posted on June 3, 2024
After all the major exit polls became available in the aftermath of the seventh and the last phase of general elections of 2024Lok Sabha, they expected BJP led NDA for a third term. There were polls suggesting that, in fact, NDA may be gaining nearly 360 seats. On the other hand, the INDIA bloc will likely only be able to secure approximately 150 in the upcoming election. These are the so called float voters who may go for the candidates of the Biju Janata Dal and the Trinamool Congress and they may manage to win the rest of the 30 or so seats.
According to many polls, the NDA is retaining most of its held bases in the northern and western regions; additionally, the eastern region people are also fully supporting the NDA, and the party has tended to make immense achievements in the south too.
According to the survey organized by ABP News-Nielsen, the ruling NDA was projected to secure more number of seats than the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal state and more seats than the BJD in Odisha state. The ruling party and its allies are likely to garner more than 30 percent of the votes. The ruling party and its partners in Bihar are likely to secure more than 30 percent of the 40 state assembly seats. The former said that there was also some loss of ground for the NDA in Maharashtra where it improved its tally only by 3 in 2019 from 41 to 48. Also, the split of the two parties — the Shiv Sena and the NCP, may lead to an enhanced proportional seat sharing of the INDIA bloc in the State, the polls portrayed but the extent of increase differed significantly across the pollsters.
2019: The mega victory of NDA is predicted in Karnataka also as they are widely popular in the state. Currently in Andhra Pradesh, TDP-BJP alliance is likely to, at least capture 20 out of 25 seats while TELANGANA is shaping up as a pretty stiff contest with many opinion polls suggesting a very close match between TRS and Congress.