evidence: The analysis here of the general election 2019 is based on a nationwide post-poll survey (The National Election Study 2019) conducted by the Lokniti programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. The fieldwork for the post-poll survey was conducted in 26 States after each phase of voting which began from April 12, 2019 and went on till May 21. A total of 24,236 voters were interviewed in 211 parliamentary constituencies (PC) in 26 States. [...] The National Election Study 2019 (NES 2019) is a post- poll survey conducted during the general election of 2019 by a team of scholars from all over India and coordinated by Lokniti, Programme for Comparative Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS). The NES 2019 is a large and comprehensive social scientific study of India’s national elections and continues the series begun in 1967 by the CSDS (with a break between 1971 and 1996).