News Politics National Lok Sabha polls: NDA may win up to 231 seats, Congress headed for worst ever performance, says a survey

Lok Sabha polls: NDA may win up to 231 seats, Congress headed for worst ever performance, says a survey

New Delhi: The BJP-led NDA could win up to 231 seats in the Lok Sabha elections and the Congress could slide to its worst ever electoral performance if elections were held in January, says a

The AIADMK would win 15-23 seats in Tamil Nadu, Biju Janata Dal 10-16 seats in Odisha and the Samajwadi Party 8-14 seats in Uttar Pradesh.

The survey said the Janata Dal-United is slated to get 7-13 seats in Bihar and the Aam Aadmi Party 6-12 seats in Delhi. It predicts a dismal performance by the Left parties and said they would win 15-23 seats.

The YSR Congress is poised to win 11-19 seats, Bahujan Samaj Party 10-16 seats, Telugu Desam Party 9-15 seats, DMK 7-13 seats, Rashtriya Janata Dal 6-10 seats while both the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and the Janata Dal-Secular could bag four-eight seats.

The survey said UPA vote share was slated to go down from 31.5 percent in the 2009 general elections to 28 percent (January 2014) while that of NDA would shoot up from 21.5 percent to 36 percent over the same period.

The survey said BJP vote share could go up to 34 percent, a 15.2 percent jump since 2009 while the Congress vote share could decline to 27 percent from 28.6 percent.