ABP CVoter Poll: Harish Rawat Emerges as Preferred Uttarakhand CM Candidate

The data placed BJP ahead of other parties, projecting that they will win 46 of Uttarakhand's 70 Assembly seats.

Ahead of the Uttarakhand Assembly elections, slated to be held early next year, an opinion poll carried out by ABP-CVoter has shown that 30.6% of the population polled preferred Congress leader and former state Chief Minister Harish Rawat as their candidate for the post.

The survey was carried out throughout August and had over 15,850 participants.

Meanwhile, 22.5% of the respondents chose Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and current state CM Pushkar Singh Dhami as their CM candidate while 19.5 percent picked BJP's Anil Baluni as their preferred candidate.

The Uttarakhand Assembly polls will see parties battling for 70 seats.