Arunachal Pradesh assembly polls will happen alongside Lok Sabha polls on April 19, the Election Commission announced on Saturday. Results for the same will be declared on June 4.
The BJP won 41 seats in the 60-member Arunachal Pradesh Assembly in the 2019 Assembly elections. The Janata Dal (United) won seven seats, the National People’s Party (NPP) five, the Congress four, the People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA) one and the Independents two.
The BJP garnered 37.36% of the vote share in the latest general election, marking the highest vote share by a political party since the 1989 election. Securing 303 seats, the BJP further strengthened its significant majority. Additionally, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) clinched a total of 353 seats.
The BJP alone secured 37.76% of the votes, while the NDA collectively garnered 45% of the total 603.7 million votes cast. On the other hand, the Indian National Congress secured 52 seats, falling short of the 10% threshold required to claim the post of Leader of the Opposition. Furthermore, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) secured 91 seats, while other parties collectively won 98 seats.
The BJP secured an impressive 37.36 percent of the votes in 2019 across the country, the highest vote share obtained by any political party in India since the 1989 general election.
The BJP alone secured 303 seats, with the final tally reached to 353 seats for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). In contrast, the Indian National Congress, led by Rahul Gandhi, secured 52 seats, with the party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) achieving a total of 98 seats.
According to the mega News18 Opinion Poll conducted recently, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is set to return to power in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in 2024 with a huge majority.
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More ShortsThe survey projects the BJP-led NDA to win 411 Lok Sabha seats—well over the 400 target Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set for the ruling alliance with the slogan, “Abki baar 400 paar.” The last time a party in the country won more than 400 seats was in 1984, when the Congress Party bagged 411 seats out of 542 at stake. The NDA vote share is expected to be at 48% in the upcoming General Elections, as per the poll.
With a 32% vote share, the Congress-led I.N.D.I.A. alliance is predicted to win 105 seats, better than the 91 seats it won in its previous avatar as the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in 2019. Other parties are expected to win 27 seats, as per the opinion poll. Within alliances, the BJP is set to improve its tally to 350 seats, while the other NDA partners will contribute 61 seats, as per the poll. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP won 303 seats, while the NDA total was 353.