The BJP hopes to repeat its spectacular Lok Sabha performance in 2014, in which it won 42.3 per cent votes, almost double the SP's 22.2 per cent and the BSP's 20 per cent.
Interestingly, in assembly elections, the BJP's performance has gotten successively worse on every occasion since 1996, when it peaked at 32.51 per cent.
The BJP won 20.12 per cent votes in 2002, 16.97 per cent in 2007, and 15 per cent in 2012.
