Battleground Uttar Pradesh

The battle for Uttar Pradesh, which sends the maximum number of members to the Lok Sabha, could turn out to be an existential one for the Congress and Mayawati.

NDTV Battleground highlights: In NDTV's special election show, we decode the polictical landscape of Uttar Pradesh, the state with most Lok Sabha seats.

The battle for Maharashtra will not be simple and the state, with the largest number of seats after Uttar Pradesh, will definitely play a key role in who controls Delhi.

A 16-year-old boy allegedly killed his mother after the latter stopped him from playing a mobile game in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow, police said today.

Most opinion polls forecast that the BJP is going to win by a clear and convincing margin in Uttar Pradesh, although, on average, the BJP is forecast to win about 100 seats fewer than in the 2017 landslide.

The Malhani assembly segment near Jaunpur has emerged as a high-stake poll battleground for the Samajwadi Party, BJP and JD(U) and their high-profile candidates.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's big win in the key battleground state of Uttar Pradesh at the weekend cheered investors who see it giving the greenlight for more business-friendly reforms.

Worried that his party's drive for votes in the most politically-prized battleground of Uttar Pradesh needed more, Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleared his schedule.

As chief minister Akhilesh Yadav seeks to be re-elected in Uttar Pradesh, will his Samajwadi Party's strategic alliance with the Congress help him in his bid? Yes, if the state votes like it did five years ago in the assembly elections of 2012. No, if it votes the way it did in the 2014 general elections.

The BJP has the best chance to win Uttar Pradesh at 55% to 65%, followed by the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance with a 30% to 40% chance and the BSP with 5% to 10%. This is not based on opinion or exit polls but on the general impression gathered from the ground by an NDTV team of Prannoy Roy and other experts who travelled across the state, wher...

The ongoing assembly election in Uttar Pradesh has proved to be a high-octane, intense three way battle between the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance, the BJP and Mayawatis Bahujan Samaj Party.

What it will take to win Uttar Pradesh elections explained entirely in graphics.

Muslims form about 18 per cent of Uttar Pradesh's population. In urban areas, they form 32 per cent of voters; in rural parts, they are about half that.

In 2012, the BJP won 47 of a possible 403 seats, placing it third in the state. Just two years later, the unbeatable campaign dispensed by Narendra Modi, then a Prime Ministerial candidate, won his party the equivalent of 337 seats - a quantum leap of outstanding proportion.

The Uttar Pradesh "snake" of victory shows that a party or coalition will need a substantial 35 per cent of the total votes to get a majority in the state, where assembly elections are being held in seven phases. Majority in the 403-member UP assembly is 202 seats.

The battle for Uttar Pradesh, which sends the maximum number of members to the Lok Sabha, could turn out to be an existential one for the Congress and Mayawati.

NDTV Battleground highlights: In NDTV's special election show, we decode the polictical landscape of Uttar Pradesh, the state with most Lok Sabha seats.

The battle for Maharashtra will not be simple and the state, with the largest number of seats after Uttar Pradesh, will definitely play a key role in who controls Delhi.

A 16-year-old boy allegedly killed his mother after the latter stopped him from playing a mobile game in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow, police said today.

Most opinion polls forecast that the BJP is going to win by a clear and convincing margin in Uttar Pradesh, although, on average, the BJP is forecast to win about 100 seats fewer than in the 2017 landslide.

The Malhani assembly segment near Jaunpur has emerged as a high-stake poll battleground for the Samajwadi Party, BJP and JD(U) and their high-profile candidates.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's big win in the key battleground state of Uttar Pradesh at the weekend cheered investors who see it giving the greenlight for more business-friendly reforms.

Worried that his party's drive for votes in the most politically-prized battleground of Uttar Pradesh needed more, Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleared his schedule.

As chief minister Akhilesh Yadav seeks to be re-elected in Uttar Pradesh, will his Samajwadi Party's strategic alliance with the Congress help him in his bid? Yes, if the state votes like it did five years ago in the assembly elections of 2012. No, if it votes the way it did in the 2014 general elections.

The BJP has the best chance to win Uttar Pradesh at 55% to 65%, followed by the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance with a 30% to 40% chance and the BSP with 5% to 10%. This is not based on opinion or exit polls but on the general impression gathered from the ground by an NDTV team of Prannoy Roy and other experts who travelled across the state, wher...

The ongoing assembly election in Uttar Pradesh has proved to be a high-octane, intense three way battle between the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance, the BJP and Mayawatis Bahujan Samaj Party.

What it will take to win Uttar Pradesh elections explained entirely in graphics.

Muslims form about 18 per cent of Uttar Pradesh's population. In urban areas, they form 32 per cent of voters; in rural parts, they are about half that.

In 2012, the BJP won 47 of a possible 403 seats, placing it third in the state. Just two years later, the unbeatable campaign dispensed by Narendra Modi, then a Prime Ministerial candidate, won his party the equivalent of 337 seats - a quantum leap of outstanding proportion.

The Uttar Pradesh "snake" of victory shows that a party or coalition will need a substantial 35 per cent of the total votes to get a majority in the state, where assembly elections are being held in seven phases. Majority in the 403-member UP assembly is 202 seats.