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THE POST-POLL survey was carried out in 80 locations in 20 Assembly constituencies spread across Haryana. A total of 762 persons in the voters list were interviewed in their homes one week following the day of polling.

The composition of those polled: 45 per cent women, 81 per cent rural residents, 24 per cent Jats, and 24 per cent Dalits.

The survey was fairly accurate in estimating the vote share for all the leading parties except the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); the discrepancies have been corrected by weighing the reported vote by actual vote percentages for different parties.

The survey fieldwork was coordinated by Harish Kumar, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, MD University, Rohtak, and Bandana Pandey, Department of Advertising, Management and Public Relations, Guru Jambeshwar University, Hissar.

The central team that coordinated the effort at the Centre for Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) included V.B. Singh, Yogendra Yadav, Sanjay Kumar, Dhananjai Joshi, Kanchan Malhotra, Himanshu Bhattacharya, Krishan Tyagi, Ved Prakash, Rakesh Kumar and H.A.Q.A. Hilal.

The post-poll survey was supported by The Hindu and the Indian School of Political Economy, Pune.

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