Saturday, 28 May 2016

POST 2014 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS---COMPARATIVE ASCENDANCY OF BJP AS AGAINST A DECLINE OF THE CONGRESS.

I have studied the vote share of both the Congress and the BJP after the Parliamentary elections in 2014 which I have shown below. The comparison is between the vote share obtained by the parties in the last assembly election and the vote share obtained in the latest assembly elections.

VARIOUS ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS SINCE THE LOK SABHA ELECTION


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Column7
Column8
Column9


BJP

SWING
CONGRESS

SWING


LAST ELE
LATEST

LAST ELE
LATEST

2014
HARYANA
9.04
33.20
24.16
35.08
20.60
-14.48








2014
J&K
12.45
23.00
10.55
17.71
18.00
0.29








2014
JHARKHAND
20.18
31.30
11.12
16.16
10.00
-6.16








2014
MAHARASTRA
14.02
27.80
13.78
21.01
18.00
-3.01








2015
DELHI
33.07
32.20
-0.87
24.55
9.7
-14.85








2015
BIHAR
16.46
24.40
7.94
8.38
6.7
-1.68








2016
WEST BENGAL
4.06
10.20
6.14
9.09
12.30
3.21








2016
TAMILNADU
2.20
2.80
0.60
9.30
6.40
-2.90








2016
KERALA
6.00
10.50
4.50
26.4
23.70
-2.70








2016
ASSAM
11.47
29.50
18.03
39.39
31.00
-8.39

As can be seen from the table, the BJP has gained in all the elections compared to the vote share it had in the prior assembly election with the exclusion of Delhi where it lost a marginal 1% vote.

Comparatively the Congress had a torrid time and lost its vote share in all the states except J&K where it just about retained it and West Bengal where it has gained 3.21% vote share in alliance with the Marxists.

In fact in states like Haryana and Delhi the Congress lost some 14% plus of the vote share which is massive loss.

In Bihar the loss of Vote share of the Congress may look small at 1.68% but in percentage terms it lost 20% of its votes and slumped to just 6.7%.

In Jharkhand Congress lost 38% of its votes which is again a massive blow. In Tamil Nadu the party lost 31% of its votes.

Of all these states the Congress is still a force only in Kerala and Assam where it managed to retain a substantial vote share despite suffering losses.


The picture is not at all good for the Congress but they refuse to see anything but the family.

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