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Urban Patterns of Voting and Party Choices
A perusal of urban voting trends in the NES 2009 survey hints at the weakening of the urban voter base of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Many among the urban poor prefer the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, while the BJP has lost support even among the urban middle classes.
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| Urban Patterns of Voting and | voters? How does one make sense of the fact that many large urban centres wit- |
| Party Choices | nessed the victory of the Congress and its allies? Again, did this mean that the BJP |
| lost due to the apathy of the urban middle | |
| class? Or, has there been some indication | |
| Vanita Leah Falcao | of shift in the urban vote? |
A perusal of urban voting trends in the NES 2009 survey hints at the weakening of the urban voter base of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Many among the urban poor prefer the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, while the BJP has lost support even among the urban middle classes.
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