Author: TNN
Publication: The Times of India
Date: March 30, 2014
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/233-seats-for-NDA-119-for-UPA-Poll/articleshow/32933248.cms

The NDA will win 233 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, riding on the back of the BJP's strongest ever showing, while the UPA will plummet to just 119 with the Congress registering its lowest ever tally, an opinion poll done for a TV channel predicted on Saturday.

 According to the poll done for ABP News by AC Nielsen, the BJP is likely to win 209 seats and the Congress 91. The other big players to emerge from the elections would be the Trinamool Congress with 28 seats, Left with 23, AIADMK with 21, BSP with 18 and BJD with 17 seats.

 The NDA's performance would be particularly strong in the west, where it would win 86 of 116 seats, and the north, where it would bag 87 of 151 seats, the poll projected.

The south would be the only region in which the UPA does better than the NDA winning 35 of the 134 seats against the saffron alliance's 21. But parties aligned to neither alliance would dominate this region winning 79 seats. In the east too, such parties would win 71 of 142 seats, the NDA 39 and the UPA 32, it suggested.