Chhattisgarh Election 2023: Opinion Poll Predicts Clear Win For Congress

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expected to increase its vote share by 8 per cent in the Chhattisgarh assembly elections 2023, according to CVoter opinion poll released by India Today.

According to India Today-CVoter opinion poll, the Congress will also gain a 3 percent rise in its vote share but may lose seats to the BJP. Both the BJP and Congress are likely to gain votes at the expense of other parties, as per the India Today report.

In the 2018 assembly elections, the Congress emerged as the clear victor, securing 68 seats out of the 90-seat assembly. This was a significant turnaround for the party, which had been in the opposition for 15 years. During that election, the Congress party garnered 43 percent of the vote share, while the BJP received 33 percent of the total votes cast. Other parties, including Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BJP), managed to secure 24 percent of the vote share. The 10 percent gap between the Congress and the BJP resulted in a sweeping victory for the Congress, while the BJP won in just 15 assembly constituencies.

The India Today-CVoter survey suggests that the BJP is likely to narrow the gap to 5 percent. However, despite this, the Congress party is expected to comfortably surpass the majority mark of 46 seats. The survey report anticipates the Congress party securing 51 seats and the BJP securing 38 seats.

Both the Congress and BJP have intensified their election campaigns for the polls scheduled by the year-end. Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited Chhattisgarh earlier in the week, where he addressed a gathering during the launch of the Mukhyamantri Gramin Awas Nyay Yojana in Bilaspur district, a region within the poll-bound state. During the visit, he also inaugurated 414 development and construction projects worth ₹669.69 crore for Bilaspur district. Later in the day, he traveled by train from Bilaspur district to the state capital Raipur, where he interacted with passengers onboard.