UP Assembly election 2017: A 3rd of voters say power cuts biggest issue

Few of the voters polled said that the note ban was an election issue

Almost a third of voters polled said power cuts were the biggest problem in Uttar Pradesh (UP), according to a new survey conducted by by FourthLion Technologies, a data analytics and public opinion polling firm, for IndiaSpend.

Elections in UP, with 138 million voters, greater than the population of the north American country of Mexico, start February 11, 2017.

FourthLion conducted 2,513 telephone interviews in Hindi of registered voters in UP, and said their sample is representative of UP’s urban and rural voters as well as socioeconomic, age, gender and caste