ABP-CVoter Survey: Channi Is Punjab CM Face, But Is He People’s Favourite Too? Know Preferred CM Candidates In Poll-Bound States

ABP CVoter Survey Assembly Elections 2022: Survey by ABP News along with CVoter for the month of February has thrown up interesting results on who are the most preferred chief ministerial candidates.

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ABP CVoter Survey Assembly Elections 2022: With assembly elections to five states (Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Manipur, Goa, Uttarakhand) round the corner, a survey by ABP News along with CVoter for the month of February has thrown up interesting results on who are the most preferred chief ministerial candidates.

Just one major change from January's predictions: Congress CM candidate, Charanjit Singh Channi has lost a fair share of popularity to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) CM candidate Bhagwant Singh Mann, who is leading the sitting Punjab CM by a margin of nearly 10%.

Yogi Adityanath, Harish Rawat, and Pramod Sawant are leading the CM race in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Goa respectively, as per the ABP CVoter survey.

Let us take a look at state-wise numbers

UTTAR PRADESH

In Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath leads the pack with 43.6% of the voters preferring him, while Akhilesh Yadav at number two finds the support of 33.7% of the voters.

The former chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati trails way behind with 15.6% while Congress's Priyanka Gandhi manages a little over 4.4%. 

UTTARAKHAND

Harish Rawat is the most preferred CM choice for Uttarakhand, with 39.4% of the respondents backing him, as per the survey. Incumbent Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has got the support of 35.5% of the voters, while Rajya Sabha MP and BJP spokesperson Anil Baluni is third on the list with 7.3% votes.  

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%.

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.

[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.]