AAP to repeat stunning performance in LS polls in Delhi: Survey

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is likely to sweep the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi, winning six out of seven seats in the capital, a STAR News-AC Neilsen survey says.

Currently, the Congress has all the seven seats. In the 2009 elections, it got 57.13 per cent votes. The AAP is expected to get 57 per cent votes in the forthcoming election, with the Congress vote share dipping to 15 per cent. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will get just one seat, the survey says, completely out of proportion with the results in the assembly election that puts the BJP with 31 seats as the single largest party in the capital.

In Mumbai, the other metropolis where the AAP is supposed to do well, the survey suggests this belief is unfounded. The survey sees AAP getting just one seat in Mumbai and none at all in smaller cities outside Mumbai: Thane, Kalyan, etc.

The survey said the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party combine was likely to get around three seats in 2014 as compared to eight seats in 2009. The BJP-Shiv Sena combine is likely to get six (the combine netted just 1 in 2009), while AAP might get one seat.

In the two cities around Delhi which fall in Haryana - Gurgaon and Faridabad - the BJP will be the biggest gainer getting both. AAP is unlikely to get a single seat though it will manage a vote share of 21 per cent, digging into the Congress voteshare which is likely to fall to 12 per cent from 38 per cent. The BJP's vote share is projected at 43 per cent up from 38 per cent in 2009.