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ABP News – Cvoter (Centre for Voting Opinion & Trends in Election Research) has published its first polling data for the upcoming Karnataka State Assembly election. According to the poll, Congress is expected to win a majority of the seats.
According to poll results, Congress is anticipated to be the top contender in the upcoming assembly elections, with 115 – 127 seats and a commanding 40.1 percent vote share.
The BJP is expected to win 68-80 seats with a 34.7 percent vote share, while the JDS is expected to finish third with a 17.9 percent vote share and a forecast of 23-35 seats. Other political parties are expected to win 7.3 percent of the vote and 0-2 seats.
ABP News-CVoter also held a snap poll in Karnataka to gauge voter sentiment and determine who they want as the state’s next Chief Minister. Siddaramaiah (Congress) received 39.1 percent of the vote, while Basavaraj Bommai (BJP) received 31.1 percent and HD Kumaraswamy received 21.4 percent. (JDS). D.K. Shivkumar, the Congress party’s other chief executive candidate, received only 3.2 percent of the vote.
Another question asked to respondents was how they rated the current BJP state government’s performance. In the ABP News-CVoter poll, approximately 27.7 percent of respondents rated it as excellent, 21.8 percent as average, and 50.5 percent as poor.
Unemployment, infrastructure problems such as power, roads, drinking water, education facilities, and corruption, on the other hand, are acting as catalysts for voters.
According to the survey results, 29.1 percent of voters perceive unemployment to be one of the most pressing issues. Whereas 21.5 percent of respondents expressed worry about electricity, roads, and water.
Education facilities were cited as a challenge by 19 percent of respondents, law and order or women’s security were cited by 2.9 percent, corruption in government work was cited by 12.7 percent, the Corona Pandemic was cited by 4 percent, farmers/agriculture issues were cited by 3.5 percent, national issues were cited by 1.2 percent, and other issues were cited by 6.1 percent of voters.
