archive: India Today poll gives big victory for BJP, allies
India Today poll gives big victory for BJP, allies
The Times of India News Service
Times of India
August 14, 1999
Title: India Today poll gives big victory for BJP, allies
Author: The Times of India News Service
Publication: Times of India
Date: August 14, 1999
NEW DELHI: An opinion poll conducted by India
Today-Insight has come to more or less the same
conclusion as The Times of India poll.
The India Today poll gives the BJP and its allies
322 to 336 seats in the coming elections. This is
a big increase over the tally of 220-232 seats
which a similar poll commissioned by the magazine
in May gave to the ruling coalition.
The Congress and its allies come a poor second
with 132-146 seats, suffering a big drop from the
191-203 seats they got in the May poll but coming
pretty close to the 147 seats they actually won
in the February 1998 election.
The BJP and its allies are expected to get as
high as 41 per cent of the total votes, gaining
four per cent over the 37.1 per cent they got in
the February 1998 elections which brought them to
power.
According to the poll, the Congress will get 28.7
per cent of the votes, gaining a marginal 1.7 per
cent over the votes it actually polled in
February 1998.
The poll also indicates that the gains of the BJP
and its allies will largely be at the cost of not
the Congress but other opposition parties, whose
tally will drop to 70-80 seats from the 143 they
won in February 1998. In terms of share in the
total votes polled, these parties, at 30.2 per
cent, will draw in 5.7 per cent less than they
did in February 1998.
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