A new survey on the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh has shown that the Samajwadi Party and the Congress have improved their position compared to how the alliance fared in the previous assembly election in 2022 and the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
However, the BJP is well ahead of the INDIA bloc and the voters reportedly back Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for a third term in the state, according to the News18 UP Mega Survey held jointly with Pvalue Analytics.
The survey held between September 17 and October 2 interviewed 30,925 respondents door-to-door across all 75 districts through Computer Aided Personal Interviews (CAPI).
According to the survey, the voters in Uttar Pradesh backed BJP mainly due to law and order situation, while other factors include infrastructure, welfare and public service delivery. However, many of the younger, the unemployed, the landless and the economically vulnerable respondents flagged concerns over unemployment in the state, it added. The Yogi government is also facing backlash over inflation, exam leaks and Gen-Z concerns, suggests the survey.
Around 31.2 per cent respondents believe that temple trust officials were responsible for Ayodhya donation theft while 20.6 per cent blamed staff and contractors and another 13.7 per cent pointed fingers at the Yogi government.
In the survey, 66.6 per cent said they would vote for the BJP-led NDA, followed by 26.4 per cent backing the SP-Congress alliance and 5.4 per cent supporting Mayawati's BSP.
A total of 77.1 per cent said they were satisfied with the governance of Yogi Adityanath government while 13.5 per cent were dissatisfied. Around 66.2 per cent want Yogi to continue as chief minister while 24.4 per cent backed Akhilesh Yadav.
When the current voting intention and the previous election performance was compared, the survey showed that the BJP would retain around 91 per cent of its voters from 2022 assembly elections and the 2024 Lok Sabha elections while SP-Congress alliance would retain around 83-85 per cent.
