Thursday, May 15, 2014

The Big Picture

At the end of this 20-day exercise, I have successfully analysed all 543 constituencies, though not in as much detail as I would have liked. The basis for the analysis, as I mentioned in my first post has been media reports, past performance of parties and what you could call gut feeling based on the overall trend. The primary sources for this were myneta.info, elections.in, various media reports available through google news search.There has been no personal bias or preference attached to the predictions. If it were, the results would altogether be different, and probably 100% wrong. What I expected out of this exercise is to gain an understanding of the political scenario in the whole country and to an extent the key factors in each state. I must say it has been an eye-opener and even though I know my opinions on politics matter to nobody, it sure was a good educative time pass.

Ok, let me cut the crap and get to the chase. Here's the summary table at the end of all the analysis.


StateNDAOthersUPASeats
ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS11
ARUNACHAL PRADESH112
ASSAM64414
BIHAR2151440
CHANDIGARH11
CHHATTISGARH10111
DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI11
DAMAN AND DIU11
DELHI617
GOA112
GUJARAT24226
HARYANA62210
HIMACHAL PRADESH314
JAMMU AND KASHMIR1326
JHARKHAND10414
KARNATAKA1431128
KERALA110920
LAKSHADWEEP11
MADHYA PRADESH26329
MAHARASHTRA3341148
MANIPUR112
MEGHALAYA112
MIZORAM11
NAGALAND11
ORISSA315321
PUDUCHERRY11
PUNJAB11213
RAJASTHAN231125
SEEMANDHRA101525
SIKKIM11
TAMIL NADU122739
TELANGANA48517
TRIPURA22
UTTAR PRADESH4431580
UTTARAKHAND415
WEST BENGAL532542
Grand Total28816986543

The NDA and UPA candidate classifications were made based on what is in the public domain(Read Wikipedia) and doesn't take into account potential NDA/UPA candidates.

If we look at the leading parties nationally based on my predictions, this is what you're looking at


PartySeats
BJP234
INC66
AITC23
ADMK20
BSP18
BJD15
YSRCP15
Shiv Sena13
SP13
TDP13
RJD10
CPI(M)9
SAD8
TRS7
CPM7
DMK6
Independent6
NCP5
JD(U)5
PMK5
RSP3
JD(S)3
PWPI2
IUML2
LJP2
RLD2
DMDK2
AAP2
AGP2
JVM(P)2
JKPDP2
KMDK1
SDF1
VCK1
INLD1
KEC(M)1
NPF1
UDF1
NPP1
MNS1
AIUDF1
CPI1
Puthiya Tamilagam1
SWP1
JBSP1
AIMIM1
All India N.R. Congress1
UDP1
BVA1
MDMK1
JKN1
HJC1

So here's my prediction on the predictions. NDA's share could be exaggerated in some states(WB, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan to name a few) , and underestimated in some states(Seemandhra, Karnataka, UP to name a few). So overall, BJP's count of 234 and NDA's count of 288 will be +/- 10 is what I feel.

I have revised the Tamil Nadu predictions after more feedback and inputs since this was the first state I analysed. Yet I have given ADMK only 20 which is still a low count compared to all the exit polls. But if my number ends up closer tomorrow, nothing like it.

So there you go. Fingers crossed for counting day! Click here for a list of mouth-watering contests to track tomorrow and here for the consolidated list of constituency-wise predictions.

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