Assembly Election 2022 ABP CVoter Survey HIGHLIGHTS: Hello and welcome to ABP Live Blog for the final Opinion Poll ahead of the commencement of Assembly Election 2022.

On February 10, the voting process will start with Uttar Pradesh, being the first state to go to the polls in the first of the seven phases. Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand, and Manipur will follow in later dates of polling as recommended by the Election Commissioner of India (ECI) with counting day for all the states is slated to be March 10.

ABP News along with CVoter conducted a survey to gauge the mood of voters right ahead of the Assembly Elections 2022. The ABP News-CVoter Opinion Poll highlights several key points related to the states and what voters think of various political parties and their performances ahead of polls.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be looking to retain power in states such as Uttar Pradesh, Goa, and Uttarakhand while Opposition parties including Congress, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Samajwadi Party (SP), and others are striving to recapture these states.

This ABP-CVoter survey will also highlight the popularity of Chief Ministerial faces for the poll-bound states.

ABP-CVoter survey will also address how people perceive the performance of the state governments and Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led's government at the Centre.

The survey also talks about the challenging issues faced by the country at the moment. It includes factors such as unemployment, economic crisis, farmers' protest, and COVID pandemic.

[Disclaimer: The present opinion poll/ survey was conducted by CVoter. The methodology used is CATI interviews of adult (18+) respondents with random numbers drawn from standard RDD and the sample size for the same is 136579 across 5 states (UP, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur) & the survey was carried out during the period 11th January 2022 to 6th February 2022. The same is also expected to have a margin of error of ±3 to ±5% and may not necessarily have factored in all criteria.]

23:30 PM (IST) • 07 Feb 2022

ABP News-CVoter Survey LIVE: Preferred CM Candidates In Punjab

The BIG surprise lies here as Charanjit Singh Channi has fallen behind in the CM race for the first time since November. In December, Charanjit Singh Channi was way ahead of his rivals with more than 32% approval.

This time in the ABP News CVoter survey, AAP's Bhagwant Mann has a whopping 35.7% approval rating, while Channi has slipped to 25.9%.

Whether we will see a change of CM in any of the above states, or will the sitting chief ministers hold the fort will be clear on March 10, 2022, when the results for the five states are announced.

23:19 PM (IST) • 07 Feb 2022

ABP News-CVoter Survey LIVE: Preferred CM Candidates In Goa

In Goa, incumbent CM Pramod Sawant is the most popular leader among those surveyed, with 34% approval.

AAP's Amit Palekar comes a distant second in the race for CM as per the ABP News CVoter survey. Digambar Kamat, a popular leader of the Congress party has got an approval rating of 7.8%.