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N. Chandrababu Naidu and Pawan Kalyan emerge as power players at the Centre and in Andhra Pradesh, routing Jagan Mohan Reddy
7 months ago

N. Chandrababu Naidu and Pawan Kalyan emerge as power players at the Centre and in Andhra Pradesh, routing Jagan Mohan Reddy

The Hindu  

Anti-incumbency, welfare promises, and sustained campaign strategies in addition to caste combinations won the day for the TDP-BJP-JSP alliance. The magnitude of the ruling Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party’s defeat in Andhra Pradesh, where simultaneous elections were held to the Lok Sabha and the Assembly, has taken political analysts by surprise. In 2019, the TDP’s tally was 3 and 23 …

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BJP Faces Erosion in Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan as Cultural Nationalism Loses Steam
7 months, 1 week ago

BJP Faces Erosion in Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan as Cultural Nationalism Loses Steam

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 06, 2024 18:28 IST - 4 MINS READ While Uttar Pradesh has been the standout State in the 2024 election, indicating the waning of the Modi ‘magic’ in the Hindi heartland, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan have also reflected the same trend in varying degrees. The BJP has achieved a clean sweep of the State’s four Lok Sabha …

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NDA vote-share in Kerala rises by 4%, comes first in 11 Assembly segments
7 months, 1 week ago

NDA vote-share in Kerala rises by 4%, comes first in 11 Assembly segments

Hindustan Times  

An analysis of the Lok Sabha election results in Kerala showed that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance was able to improve its vote share in the state at the cost of both Congress-led United Democratic Front and the Communist Party of India -led Left Democratic Front coalitions. Though NDA was able to register victory in only one seat, …

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OPINION | MODI’S HAT-TRICK: BJP NEEDS TO INTROSPECT
7 months, 1 week ago

OPINION | MODI’S HAT-TRICK: BJP NEEDS TO INTROSPECT

India TV News  

The mandate given by the people of India on Tuesday shall be remembered for a long time in Indian political history. On the other hand, Samajwadi Party’s vote share jumped from 18 pc five years ago to 34 pc this time, while Congress’ vote share increased from six pc last time to 10 pc this time. Five years ago, BJP …

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No Modi magic, BJP draws a blank in Punjab
7 months, 1 week ago

No Modi magic, BJP draws a blank in Punjab

Hindustan Times  

Contesting the Lok Sabha polls on its own after 1996 with focus on Hindu factors and Modi “magic”, the Bharatiya Janata Party has ended up with a duck in Punjab. The saffron party increased its vote share almost 12% more as compared to the previous 2022 assembly polls when it contested without its traditional alliance partner SAD and bagged 6.6% …

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Crunching the numbers for an evolving South
7 months, 1 week ago

Crunching the numbers for an evolving South

New Indian Express  

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Similarly, in neighbouring Kerala, while the BJP won one Lok Sabha seat for the first time and partially increased its vote share from 13 percent in 2019 to around 17 percent in 2024, the overall mandate remains almost the same. Therein, BJP contested three fewer seats this time but lost …

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Can BJP raise its Lok Sabha tally despite skewed regional showings?
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Can BJP raise its Lok Sabha tally despite skewed regional showings?

Hindustan Times  

This question is best answered by looking at just one chart which plots the BJP’s seat share in the 2019 elections and the change in its vote share between the 2014 and 2019 elections. In all of these PCs, the BJP actually increased its vote share between the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections except in Daman & Diu. Now, …

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MP LS Polls: PM to Blow Poll Bugle in MP on Feb 11, BJP Sets Target to Increase Vote Share to 68 Percent
11 months, 1 week ago

MP LS Polls: PM to Blow Poll Bugle in MP on Feb 11, BJP Sets Target to Increase Vote Share to 68 Percent

Deccan Chronicle  

Bhopal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is most likely to blow bugle for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, due in April- May this year, for BJP in Madhya Pradesh from tribal-dominated Jhabua in the state on February 11. The meeting, meanwhile, has set a target to increase the party’s vote share in the upcoming LS polls in MP by ten percent …

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Telangana Assembly elections: Narrow 2% swing in votes helps Congress win, BRS’ vote share drops 10%
1 year, 1 month ago

Telangana Assembly elections: Narrow 2% swing in votes helps Congress win, BRS’ vote share drops 10%

Live Mint  

A narrow 2% shift in votes toward the Congress led to the Bharat Rashtra Samithi losing the assembly elections in Telangana. According to the Election Commission's data, the Congress won 64 assembly seats in the 119-member assembly, attaining a 39.40% vote share, while the BRS bagged 39 seats with a 37.35% vote share. The K Chandrasekhar Rao-led BRS witnessed a …

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Why is the Telugu Desam Party not contesting the election today?
1 year, 1 month ago

Why is the Telugu Desam Party not contesting the election today?

Hindustan Times  

The final reason for the TDP withdrawing from the Telangana election may be the arrest of TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu in corruption cases in September, just months ahead of the election in Telangana. However, TDP’s contested vote share in the Telangana region decreased by 15 percentage points between 2009 and 2014 to just 24%. This continued in 2014 when …

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What is ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ and why it is still very much in progress
1 year, 7 months ago

What is ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ and why it is still very much in progress

Firstpost  

Around December of 2017, the BJP and its supporters would take much delight in sharing the political map of India. And now it is the turn of the Congress and its supporters to mock the BJP with things like “BJP-mukt South India”. In Andhra Pradesh, the Congress now has just 1 per cent of the vote. In 1997, Kalyan Singh …

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Aakar Patel | Why the Congress won in K'taka, and the BJP held on to its vote share
1 year, 7 months ago

Aakar Patel | Why the Congress won in K'taka, and the BJP held on to its vote share

Deccan Chronicle  

The Congress won in Karnataka though the BJP held on to its vote share. The Congress added five per cent to get to just under 43 per cent vote share and the BJP lost just 0.2 per cent, to get 36 per cent. The five schemes are 200 units of free electricity per month; Rs 2,000 to every woman head …

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Lokniti-CSDS survey | How the Congress won an absolute majority in Karnataka
1 year, 8 months ago

Lokniti-CSDS survey | How the Congress won an absolute majority in Karnataka

The Hindu  

Since 1985, Karnataka has never voted back a ruling party. It is clear that the Congress received more or less uniform support across age groups, while the BJP drew greater support from younger voters. The Congress drew greater support as compared to the BJP from those with different educational achievements, except those who had a college degree — a section …

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Karnataka election result: How HD Deve Gowda’s JD(S) lost the electoral battle
1 year, 8 months ago

Karnataka election result: How HD Deve Gowda’s JD(S) lost the electoral battle

Hindustan Times  

From kingmaker to a bit player, the decline in the fortunes of the Janata Dal, led by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, has been nothing short of dramatic. The party’s tally in the assembly polls has tumbled to 20 seats from 37 won in 2018, compounded by a sharp fall of five percentage points in vote share from …

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CSDS-Lokniti Survey | What contributed to the BJP’s massive victory in Gujarat?
2 years, 1 month ago

CSDS-Lokniti Survey | What contributed to the BJP’s massive victory in Gujarat?

The Hindu  

The voters of Gujarat have created electoral history in the State by delivering a historic mandate for the Bharatiya Janata Party. An analysis of aggregate data indicates that the BJP’s impressive performance was the by-product of an increase in vote share from 2017 by a mere three percentage points. Seven of every 10 of the BJP’s voters focused on the …

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No AAPgrade: Kejriwal’s ‘Jhadu’ May Not Sweep Gujarat, Only Eat into BJP, Cong Votes
2 years, 1 month ago

No AAPgrade: Kejriwal’s ‘Jhadu’ May Not Sweep Gujarat, Only Eat into BJP, Cong Votes

News 18  

The Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress — the major political forces in Gujarat since the collapse of Janata Dal in 1990 — may find it difficult to retain their vote share this time with the entry of Aam Aadmi Party. The BJP and Congress managed to increase its vote share after several crucial leaders from the Janata Dal left the …

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BJP increases vote share in 4 out of 5 states, including Punjab
2 years, 10 months ago

BJP increases vote share in 4 out of 5 states, including Punjab

Op India  

In the 2022 Assembly elections that concluded with the results yesterday on the 10th of March 2022, BJP won 4 states with AAP sweeping Punjab. In 2017, according to the Election Commission data, BJP secured 39.67% vote share in the state with 3,44,03,299 votes in total. Election Commission data Increase of vote share of BJP in Goa In 2022, BJP …

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U.P. Election Results 2022 live updates | BJP leads in 255 seats, Samajwadi Party holds lead in 116 constituencies
2 years, 10 months ago

U.P. Election Results 2022 live updates | BJP leads in 255 seats, Samajwadi Party holds lead in 116 constituencies

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party alliance won the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections getting 274 seats in a deeply bipolar contest though with a reduced tally from their 2017 score of 312 seats. Mr. Maurya had resigned from Yogi Adityanath’s cabinet and quit the Bharatiya Janata Party to join SP, shortly before the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. 9.40 p.m. Dy CM …

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Can BJP lose its vote share, but still win in UP? Wait for results
2 years, 11 months ago

Can BJP lose its vote share, but still win in UP? Wait for results

Deccan Chronicle  

I have not been to Uttar Pradesh in some time, and what I am saying is not based on material that is recent or on any groundwork that I have done recently. In 2012, the Samajwadi Party won an absolute majority in Uttar Pradesh with a vote share of 29 per cent. Remarkably it was not the BJP but the …

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Has the first-past-the-post system polarised Indian politics?
3 years, 4 months ago

Has the first-past-the-post system polarised Indian politics?

The Hindu  

India’s parliamentary democracy is going through a phase of intense confrontation between the dominant ruling party and a weakened but belligerent Opposition. The FPTP system tends to magnify the seat share of the party with the largest vote share, while parties receiving a lower vote share tend to get a much lower seat share. Since then, there has been ethnic …

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Kerala polls: BJP gets another chance to make inroads, but prevailing in coastal state seems improbable
3 years, 9 months ago

Kerala polls: BJP gets another chance to make inroads, but prevailing in coastal state seems improbable

Firstpost  

Even as the BJP has commanded significant support in North India and has made inroads in East and Northeast India, the South and especially the state of Kerala has evaded the Saffron wave. However, notwithstanding the subsequent poll losses, a look at the party’s performance since the 2014 general elections show that slowly but steadily, the BJP has been building …

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No room for a third front in Tamil Nadu
4 years, 1 month ago

No room for a third front in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu  

Since 1967, Tamil Nadu has been ruled by either the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam or the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. In the 2009 parliamentary election, the AIADMK-led alliance polled 37.66 per cent of the votes and won 13 constituencies, while the DMK-led alliance polled 42.17 per cent of the votes to win 26 constituencies. Comparing the 2014 and 2019 …

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Of The 'Many Faces' to Represent Cong-Left Alliance in Bengal, Adhir Chowdhury's Could be a Deal-breaker
4 years, 1 month ago

Of The 'Many Faces' to Represent Cong-Left Alliance in Bengal, Adhir Chowdhury's Could be a Deal-breaker

News 18  

West Bengal Congress leaders have expressed their desire to project Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury as the face of the party’s alliance with the CPI in the upcoming state assembly elections. Talking Points In the event that Chowdhury’s projection becomes a point of contention between the two parties, and the TMC falls short of the magic number to form the government, the …

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Delhi Assembly election results 2020
4 years, 11 months ago

Delhi Assembly election results 2020

The Hindu  

Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party were voted back to power with a massive mandate in the Delhi Assembly election as the party won 62 seats in the 70-member House. In the Lok Sabha polls held in May 2019, the BJP polled over 56% votes in Delhi, more than the combined vote share of the Congress and the AAP, …

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