Ahead of Bihar assembly elections, the ABP News-C Voter released its final opinion poll. The ABP News-C Voter opinion poll shows a clear victory for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which is the ruling coalition led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Janata Dal (United) (JD-U), and also comprising of the Vikashsheel Insaf Party (VIP) and the Hindustani Awami Morcha. The opinion poll predicted that NDA will win 135-159 seats, which is comfortably above the magic number (122) in the 243-member Bihar Legislative Assembly.
The pre-poll survey, which was conducted by ABP News-C Voter in Bihar from October 1 to 23, asked the voters for their choices while registering their votes. The poll showed that the BJP will emerge with the lion's share of seats, with victory in 73-81 seats.
The JD(U) is expected to secure 59-67 seats, while the VIP and HAM(S) will likely win 3-7 and 0-4 seats, respectively, according to the survey.
While Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance), which consists of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Congress and Left parties, was expected to bag 77-98 seats.
The Mahagathbandhan vote shares are predicted by the ABP News-C Voter survey as follows:
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD): 24% votes
Congress: 6% votes
CPI: 1%
CPI(M): 0.5%
CPI(ML)L: 2.7%
Meanwhile, the Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) was not predicted to cause much of a difference, garnering only 1-5 seats, according to the survey.
Other parties, including the Grand Secular Democratic Front (GSDF) are expected to be restricted to 4-8 seats.
Elections to the 243-seat Bihar Assembly will be held in three phases -- October 28, November 3 and 7 -- and the counting of votes will take place on November 10.
