Barring Delhi, BJP vote share sees a rise in 3 other states

Riding on anti-Congress wave, the BJP increased its vote share in three states – Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. In the fourth, it vote share fell down even though it emerged as the single largest party.

Updated on: Dec 9, 2013, 24:44:10 IST

Hindustan Times | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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Riding on anti-Congress wave, the BJP increased its vote share in three states – Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. In the fourth, it vote share fell down even though it emerged as the single largest party.

The BJP had bagged 41.06% votes in Chhattisgarh this election as compared to 40% in last polls. The Congress’ vote share also increased from 38.6% in last elections to 40.29%. The loser in the bargin was BSP.

In Rajasthan, where the BJP got a thumping majority, the party bagged 45.9% of the votes polled as compared to just 33.67% for the Congress. Five years ago, the BJP has bagged 34.3% votes and the Congress won by getting 36.8% votes.

In Madhya Pradesh, the BJP this time improved its vote share slightly from 37.6% in 2008 to about 38%. The BJP got 165 seats as compared to 58 for the Congress.

In Delhi, the BJP managed to emerge as the single largest party in Delhi Assembly despite its vote share falling to the lowest ever in the last 20 years. For that, the saffron party should thank Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which cut into more Congress votes than that of the BJP.

The Aam Aadmi Party got 27% votes, eating into the vote bank of the Congress and the BSP in the national capital. The AAP got huge support from the reserved seats, where the BSP was making a dent in the Congress’s traditional vote bank.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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