CVoter

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Team CVoter
Private/Independent
Industry Public Opinion Research
Founded 1994
Headquarters Noida; Dubai;San Francisco
Key people
 Yashwant Deshmukh, Founder
Website http://www.cvoterindia.com/

CVoter (Centre for Voting Opinion and Trends in Election Research) is an Indian stakeholder research agency. The company started as an initiative to act as an interface between people and the polity of India. It has become South Asia’s largest Indian-owned media and stakeholder research agency[citation needed] and works in print, social and electronic media, social research, market research and consultancy services.

CVoter has worked with various media companies,[1] academia,[2] international organizations,[3] governments and other research organizations.[4]

Core Operations

CVoter's Internal quality assurance and operations are supplied by a 26-member core team of experts ensuring high quality timely delivery of domestic and international assignment. This team is supported by an in-house 24x7 back office and 125 seats Global CATI (calling) center which undertakes survey design, fieldwork, data processing and analytic assignments in large volumes. The group carries out almost 25 international and domestic evaluation projects every year. In India; their weekly omnibus is carried out in 12 languages and covers the most heterogeneous and complex societies in a country of 1.2 billion people. It also happens to be the only regular currency to map the dynamic public opinion of the fastest growing democratic economy of the world.[4]

India Operations

In last sixteen years CVoter News Services covered news analysis across spectrum including 15 Union Budgets, more than 100 State Elections and all General Elections post-1994. Since 2000, as the private media players entered the Indian news market, CVoter has worked with almost all the major stalwarts like‐ Aaj Tak,[5] Star News,[6] Zee News,[7] Zee Business, BBC, Reuters,[8] Bloomberg, DECU‐ISRO, India TV,[9] Loksabha TV, UTVi, Sahara Samay, Jain TV, Asianet,[10] ETV, CNEB and many more. Almost all the important magazines (India Today,[11] The Week,[12] Hindustan Times, Times of India, Indian Express, Amar Ujala, Dainik Jagran, Bhaskar, Malayala Manorama, Anand Bazar Patrika) have extensively published the agency's Stakeholder research, Public perception polls, political analysis and socio‐economic research.

In 2014 CVoter conducted opinion polls for Times Now and India Today.

International Operations

CVoter has a footprint in over 30 countries including United States of America,[1] United Kingdom, South Africa,[13] Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan.

CVoter covered the South African General Elections 2014 in collaboration with ANN7 Channel and The New Age newspaper. In addition to providing polling and analytical services, CVoter was responsible for complete election programming by ANN7, providing end to end consultancy and production of election content.[14]

Past Predictions

2014 General Elections India

General Elections to Lok Sabha 2014 proved to be a seminal event in the political history of independent Republic of India. For the first time India observed an avowedly non-left political party ascend to power at New Delhi. The India-TV CVoter Exit Poll[9] projected the following seats for major political formations NDA 289, UPA 101 and Others 148. Compared to the projections, the actual results stood as NDA 336, UPA 58 and Others 149.

2009 General Elections India

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.[15] In the end, in Indian general election, 2009, UPA got 262 (Congress - 206) and NDA 159 (BJP - 116).

2004 General Elections India

The CVoter exit poll projections for Star News predicted NDA getting between 267-279 and Congress+Allies bewtween 169-181.[16][17] In the end, in Indian general election, 2004, Congress+Allies(UPA) got 218 (Congress 145) and NDA got 181 (BJP - 138).

Most pollsters got this election wrong.[16]

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