ABP News-CVoter Survey: Congress Projected To Retain Chhattisgarh, But BJP Will Give Close Fight

ABP News CVoter Survey Chhattisgarh Opinion poll: The Congress is projected to return to power, while the BJP is expected to give a close fight. ABP-CVoter Survey surveys the mood of poll-bound state.

Voters line up to vote at a polling station in Sukma in Chhattisgarh state on November 12, 2018.

ABP News CVoter Survey Chhattisgarh Opinion poll: The Congress is projected to win 48 to 54 seats and return to power in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, while the BJP is expected to give it a tough fight with a projection to gain 35 to 41 seats as per the ABP-CVoter survey. The state assembly polls are due this year-end.

The survey has projected a 2.5 per cent swing in the vote share of the Congress at 45.6 per cent from 43.1 per cent in 2018. Meanwhile, the BJP's vote share is expected to see an 8.1 per cent growth at 41.1 per cent from 33 per cent in the last assembly elections.

In the assembly elections held in 2018, the Congress won 68 seats ending 15 years of BJP rule in the state. The BJP has already started preparations in advance, taking lessons from the results of the 2018 elections, to get an edge before the election schedules are announced. 

While the battle lines are drawn and both the parties try to put their best foot forward to win the state, Chief Minister and Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel emerged as the most preferred Chief Ministerial candidate, followed by Raman Singh Of the BJP. Meanwhile, Congress's TS Singhdev and BJP's Ramesh Bais took the third and the fourth spots on the list

[Current survey findings and projections are based on CVoter Pre Poll personal interviews (Face to Face) conducted among 18+ adults statewide, all confirmed voters, details of which are mentioned right below the projections as of today. The data is weighted to the known demographic profile of the States. Sometimes the table figures do not sum to 100 due to the effects of rounding. Our final data file has Socio-Economic profile within +/- 1% of the Demographic profile of the State. We believe this will give the closest possible trends. The sample spread is across all Assembly segments in the poll bound state. MoE is +/- 3% at macro level and +/- 5% at micro level VOTE SHARE projection with 95% Confidence interval.]