Will win many more seats than predicted: Congress

October 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - If the assembly elections in the three states Tuesday were seen as the first major popularity test since the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress is set to consolidate its top position, going by the early projections made by IBN-Lokmat and Star News-Nielson. The Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance is likely to win in Maharashtra, according to IBN-Lokmat Times projections.

October 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance is likely to win the assembly elections in Maharashtra where polling was held Tuesday, according to IBN-Lokmat Times projections. According to these projections, the ruling Congress-NCP alliance will win 135 to 145 seats in the 288-member assembly with the Congress garnering 75-85 seats and the NCP 55-65 seats.

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - It will be a hung verdict in Maharashtra but the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance will end with most seats while the Congress will sweep Haryana in coming assembly elections, an opinion poll Thursday said. According to the survey by Star News channel, the Congress-NCP combine ruling Maharashtra will win up to 140 of the 288 assembly seats.

September 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is ready to concede more seats to its ally Congress in the Maharashtra elections and seat sharing talks between them are going on smoothly, NCP leader Praful Patel said Wednesday. "The Congress contested a large number of seats last time, they will contest more seats this time.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The exit polls have gone wrong yet again. While all the surveys had predicted an edge for the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), they also said the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would be a close second.

May 15th, 2009 HYDERABAD - An MP from the ruling Congress party in Andhra Pradesh has predicted that several state ministers will lose the assembly elections held along with the Lok Sabha ballot. Industrialist L.

May 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two days ahead of the poll results, the Congress party Thursday was upbeat about emerging the single largest party and dismissed exit polls carried out by media organisations. Party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the Congress would prove the exit polls wrong by winning many more seats than predicted.

May 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Election 2009 will deliver a fractured verdict, with the Congress-led UPA finishing barely ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA, exit polls conducted by various TV news channels predicted Wednesday night. The CNN-IBN poll said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) would be the single largest coalition with 185 to 205 seats while the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would finish anywhere between 165 to 185 seats in the 545-member house.

May 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Even as the exit polls for the Lok Sabha elections trickled in Wednesday evening predicting a hung parliament, one has to keep in mind that they had all gone woefully wrong in the 2004 electoral battle predicting exactly the opposite of the outcome. As many as five leading TV channels had then predicted in the previous elections that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would bag 230 to 278 seats and gave the Congress and its allies 171 to 205 seats.

May 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will finish marginally ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the Lok Sabha elections, exit polls conducted by different TV news channels predicted Wednesday night. The CNN-IBN poll said the UPA would be the single largest coalition with 185 to 205 seats while the NDA would finish anywhere between 165 to 185 seats in the 545-member house.

May 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will end up marginally ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the Lok Sabha elections, exit polls Wednesday night said. According to a survey by India TV, the UPA would be the single largest coalition with 195-201 seats in the 545-member Lok Sabha while the NDA was expected to win 189-195 seats.

April 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) are running neck and neck this Lok Sabha elections and are likely to get 189 seats and 187 seats, respectively, showed a pre-poll survey by a private news channel. According to the survey conducted by India TV: 'Both BJP and Congress are expected to win 143 seats on their own.

April 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress and its allies are expected to win more seats from Maharashtra and Punjab in the Lok Sabha elections, according to an NDTV opinion poll released Wednesday. The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are likely to win 30 seats in Maharashtra, up from their current tally of 23, while the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP)-Shiv Sena alliance's number is expected to come down from 25 to 18 in the state's 48 seats, the NDTV said in a statement on the poll.

March 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - United Progressive Alliance (UPA) allies Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and Rashtriya Janata Dal have arrived at a seat-sharing formula for 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar on Tuesday. The formal announcement is expected to be made later today at a joint press conference here.

March 17th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Gujarat has kept up its demand for contesting at least two Lok Sabha seats in the state, even as ally Congress has already announced its own candidates in 12 constituencies. The Congress is expected to make an announcement on candidates for the remaining 14 seats from Gujarat in the next two days.