{"iso":"IN","name":"India","flag":"\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3","vote":"Lok Sabha vote intention \u00b7 vote-share forecast","model":"voteshare","updated":"2026-01-30","source":"India Today-CVoter Mood of the Nation, February 2026 wave, sample 125,979","credit":"Alliance vote-share projections from the twice-yearly India Today-CVoter Mood of the Nation surveys, compiled from the public polling record. Figures cover the governing NDA and opposition INDIA alliances, smaller unaligned parties are dropped. The next Lok Sabha election is due by mid-2029.","shares":{"NDA":47.0,"INDIA":39.0},"polls":[{"date":"2026-01-30","pollster":"India Today-CVoter","shares":{"NDA":47.0,"INDIA":39.0}},{"date":"2025-08-28","pollster":"India Today-CVoter","shares":{"NDA":47.0,"INDIA":41.0}},{"date":"2025-02-12","pollster":"India Today-CVoter","shares":{"NDA":47.0,"INDIA":41.0}},{"date":"2024-08-23","pollster":"India Today-CVoter","shares":{"NDA":44.0,"INDIA":40.0}}],"parties":{"NDA":{"name":"National Democratic Alliance","color":"#F98C1F"},"INDIA":{"name":"INDIA bloc","color":"#00B7EB"}},"primer":{"system":"Federal parliamentary republic","head_of_state":"President Droupadi Murmu","head_of_government":"Prime Minister Narendra Modi","legislature":"Parliament of India, bicameral. The Lok Sabha (lower house) has 543 elected members serving five-year terms.","electoral_system":"Lok Sabha members are elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies.","government_now":"Narendra Modi's BJP leads the National Democratic Alliance coalition, governing with allies including the Telugu Desam Party and Janata Dal (United).","context":"The 2024 general election, the largest ever held, returned Modi for a third term but left the BJP short of the single-party majority it had won in 2014 and 2019. It is Modi's first time heading a coalition government.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"NDA":["National Democratic Alliance","","Ruling coalition led by Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist, right-wing BJP with regional allies such as the TDP and JD(U); forms the national government."],"INDIA":["INDIA bloc","Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance","Opposition alliance led by the centre-left Indian National Congress with regional and left parties; the main opposition."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"Lok Sabha","as_of":"2024 election","total":543,"seats":{"NDA":293,"INDIA":234}},"region_winners":{"Arunachal Pradesh":"NDA","Sikkim":"NDA","Assam":"NDA","Uttarakhand":"NDA","Tripura":"NDA","Rajasthan":"NDA","Gujarat":"NDA","Himachal Pradesh":"NDA","Bihar":"NDA","Andhra Pradesh":"NDA","Odisha":"NDA","Karnataka":"NDA","Jharkhand":"NDA","Delhi":"NDA","Madhya Pradesh":"NDA","Chhattisgarh":"NDA","Andaman and Nicobar Islands":"NDA","Uttar Pradesh":"INDIA","West Bengal":"INDIA","Maharashtra":"INDIA","Tamil Nadu":"INDIA","Kerala":"INDIA","Punjab":"INDIA","Manipur":"INDIA","Nagaland":"INDIA","Chandigarh":"INDIA","Puducherry":"INDIA","Lakshadweep":"INDIA"},"region_meta":{"election":"2024 Indian general election (Lok Sabha, April to June 2024)","source":"Election Commission of India constituency results, aggregated to states by winning alliance","note":"Each state is shaded by the alliance that won more Lok Sabha seats there in 2024 per Election Commission of India results, with Sikkim shaded NDA because its seat went to the NDA member Sikkim Krantikari Morcha; Telangana, Haryana, Goa and Jammu and Kashmir stay unshaded because the NDA and the INDIA bloc tied on seats there, and Ladakh, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu stay unshaded because independents or unaligned parties won or tied for the most seats."},"region_ties":{"Telangana":"2024 \u00b7 BJP 8, INC 8, AIMIM 1 \u00b7 exact alliance tie","Haryana":"2024 \u00b7 BJP 5, INC 5 \u00b7 exact alliance tie","Goa":"2024 \u00b7 BJP 1, INC 1 \u00b7 exact alliance tie","Jammu and Kashmir":"2024 \u00b7 BJP 2, JKNC 2, Independent 1 \u00b7 exact alliance tie","Ladakh":"2024 \u00b7 won by an independent, neither alliance","Mizoram":"2024 \u00b7 won by the unaligned ZPM","Meghalaya":"2024 \u00b7 VPP (unaligned) 1, INC 1","Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu":"2024 \u00b7 BJP 1, Independent 1"},"has_geo":true,"next_election":{"date":"2029-05","title":"Indian general election (expected)","chamber":"Lok Sabha","type":"expected"}}