BJP gaining big in Bengal as voters shift from Left, Congress

New Delhi, Jan 18 : The BJP is set to get a massive positive swing of 27.3 per cent votes in the West Bengal Assembly elections, but may still end up as the runner-up as Mamata Banerjees Trinamool Congress is not suffering a serious breach in its vote share, according to the IANS C-Voter Battle for the States survey.
The vote share projection for Trinamool is 43 per cent, with a negative swing of only 1.9 per cent compared to 44.9 per cent in 2016.
The big gains are coming BJP’s way in West Bengal with a swing of 27.3 per cent, taking its vote share to 37.5 per cent.
The BJP is gaining from the erosion of the vote share of the once invincible Left and Congress in the state which is suffering a negative swing of more than 20 per cent in a fight which is getting increasingly polarised between the Trinamool and the BJP.
In Tamil Nadu, the DMK poised to win even by gaining only marginal vote share, primarily because of a major swing away from the ruling AIADMK alliance.
The DMK-Congress alliance is set to garner 41.1 percent vote share, a gain of 1.7 per cent over the previous election. However, what is working in its favour is a huge swing away from the E. Palaniswami led AIADMK government which is losing 15 per cent vote share and getting only 28.7 per cent of the votes.