News18 shows that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is set to bag a total of 77 seats, predicting a landslide victory. The survey also shows that the Opposition INDIA bloc will bag two seats, leaving one for Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh. The New18 opinion poll has predicted BJP-led NDA will cinch a 57% vote share in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
Contenders including Akhilesh Yadav's SP and Congress combined is predicted to get 26% vote share. Mayawati's BSP is likely to win a single seat with a 9% vote share, the News18 Opinion Poll shows. Notably, Prime Minster and BJP leader Narendra Modi is set to contest Lok Sabha polls from UP's Varanasi.
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, who held the Raebareli seat from Uttar Pradesh, has now moved to Rajya Sabha, triggering speculations that her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is set to amke her poll debut. Uttar Pradesh has 80 Lok Sabha constituencies. Notably, Uttar Pradesh elects the maximum number of members to the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
In Rajya Sabha Uttar Pradesh contributes 31 members to the Parliament while in Lok Sabha number of members is 80. In the 2019 general elections, BJP had won 62 seats, Mayawati's BSP secured 10, Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) won 5, Apna Dal (Sonelal) had won 2, and Congress had managed to win just one seat. According to the News18 survey, BJP is expected to sweep Ruhelkhand's 10 seats, Bundelkhand's four, Doab's 14 and western UP's nine Lok Sabha seats.
The survey also says BJP is set to bag 29 of the 30 Lok Sabha seats in Poorvanchal and 11 of the 13 in the Avadh region. Furter, SP-Congress-led INDIA bloc is expected to bag one seat each from the Avadh and Poorvanchal regions. The
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