Centre for Voting Opinion & Trends in Election Research, or CVoter, is an Indian international polling agency headquartered in

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History

Yashwant Deshmukh is the director and founding editor of CVoter.

Clients

CVoter India states that it has covered 15 union budgets, more than 100 state elections and more than 30 international events. Since 2000 it has worked with Times Now, ANN7,

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, the Development and Educational Communication Unit of the

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, UTVi business news channel (owned by

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), Sahara Samay (owned by

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), Jain TV,

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, ETV, CNEB and other news and information providers. Studies have included market research, conflict resolution research, and opinion polls.

2022 State Elections

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2021 State Elections (West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam & Puducherry)

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Tamil Nadu

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2021 Desh Ka Mood by Team Cvoter & ABP News

ABP News-CVoter gauges the nation's sentiments with ‘Desh ka Mood’ Survey 58% of people favor NDA government, 28% favor UPA: ABP News’ Desh Ka Mood survey Naveen country's best CM

2020 Trust on Media Institutions

CVoter carried out a survey Trust on Indian media institutions Indian readers place higher credibility to newspapers, survey finds

2020 Bihar elections

Bihar Assembly polls: It had projected 104-128 seats for the NDA and 108-131 seats for the opposition grand alliance.

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secured a total of 125 seats (37.26% votes) while MGB won 110 seats (37.23% votes).

2021 State Elections (West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam)

May 2016 saw elections in Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. CVoter was the only one of five polling agencies to predict the Tamil Nadu outcome correctly.

2016 United States elections

The UPI/CVoter poll wrongly predicted a

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victory in the

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. When the results were declared

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won the election.

2009 Indian general elections

The CVoter exit poll projections for India TV showed the UPA with 189–201 seats. It gives the Congress 149–155, the DMK between 9 and 13, the NCP 12–16 and the Trinamool between 12 and 16. The poll showed the BJP-led Front getting between 183 and 195 seats. It includes the BJP (140–146), the JD (U) 17–21. In the end, in

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, UPA got 262 (Congress – 206) and NDA 159 (BJP – 116).

2004 Indian general elections

The CVoter exit poll projections for Star News predicted NDA getting between 267–279 and Congress+Allies between 169 and 181. In the end, in

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, Congress+Allies (UPA) got 218 (Congress 145) and NDA got 181 (BJP – 138).

Controversy

CVoter allegedly carried out tracking polls for Indian news networks Times Now, India Today & India TV. A television news channel claimed in a sting operation conducted by it that some of the agencies which conduct opinion polls before elections are willing to tweak their findings for money. It included global giants like Ipsos and CVoter. After the expose, India Today Group suspended its CVoter contract.

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References

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