Lok Sabha Elections: BJP Likely To Dominate Chhattisgarh, Get 50.8% Votes: Says Survey

The BJP is likely to dominate the Lok Sabha Elections in Chhattisgarh with the saffron party expected to get 50.8 percent of the votes in the 11 seats of the state.

Meanwhile, the opposition Congress is predicted to get 44.4 percent of the votes, the latest ABP News and CVoter Opinion Poll has revealed.

While the BJP is expected to sweep 10 seats, the Congress is likely to get only one seat in the state. 

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The Congress has released the names of all the 11 contestants in the state, which include Devender Singh Yadav from Bilaspur, Biresh Thakur from Kanker (Scheduled Tribe reserved), Shashi Singh from Surguja (ST), and Dr. Menka Devi Singh from Raigarh (ST).

The BJP list, on the other hand include Brijmohan Agrawal from Raipur, Santosh Pandey from Rajnandgaon, Vijay Baghel from Durg, Chintamani Maharaj from Surguja, Radheshyam Rathiya from Raigarh, Tokhan Sahu from Bilaspur, Mahesh Kashyap from Bastar, Bhojraj Nag from Kanker and three women candidates – Saroj Pandey, Kamlesh Jangde and Rupkumari Choudhary.

The Lok Sabha polls in Chhattisgarh will be conducted in three phases on April 19, April 26, and May 7, with results on June 4. 

Naxal-hit Bastar (Scheduled Tribe) constituency will have polling on April 19, with the filing of nominations starting on March 20. The Kanker (ST), Rajnandgaon, and Mahasamund constituencies will vote on April 26 in the second phase, while the remaining seven constituencies will vote on May 7.

(Methodology: Current survey findings and projections are based on CVoter Opinion Poll CATI interviews (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing) 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.)