A post-election survey by pollster GVl Narasimha Rao, released by news portal lens On News on Tuesday, said the State’s ruling BJD would bag 12 out of the 21 lok Sabha seats. The survey gave seven seats to the BJP, one to the Congress while predicting one seat would go to ‘Others’.
The findings carry a margin of error of three per cent, the survey report clarified.The report said the survey was conducted after each polling day during the staggered 10-phase election and covered a total of 40,000 voters across the country.According to its forecast, the BJP was set to win a record 253 seats in the lok Sabha and the Congress just 66, the party’s lowest-ever tally.
It also predicted 303 seats for the BJP-led NDA.In Odisha, the survey said the BJP is likely to push the main opposition party Congress to the third place in the lok Sabha polls.The survey indicated that the vote share of the BJD slumped to 35 per cent this time from the 37 per cent in the 2009 polls while the BJP registered a whopping 14-per cent rise, up from 16 per cent in 2009 to a total 30 per cent.The Congress vote share in the State, it said, fell sharply to just 24 per cent.