Survey Methodology

Last updated: 1 November 2026

India Opinion is a product of Brain Hub. This page explains how polls in the India Opinion app work and how to read their results.

In short: India Opinion polls are unscientific, unofficial opinion surveys of app users. They are not exit polls, forecasts or official results. India Opinion is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Election Commission of India (ECI), any Central or State Government, or any political party or candidate.

1. What a poll result is

Each result shows how registered users of the app answered a question. Participants choose to take part, so they are a self-selected group. Results are not weighted and are not adjusted to match the population by age, gender, region or any other factor, so they are not representative of India, a State or a constituency. Please do not treat them as a prediction of any election.

2. Who can vote

You must be 18 or older and sign in with a mobile number verified by a one-time password (OTP).
One person, one account and one vote per question. You can vote only once on each question.
Constituency questions are answered from the Lok Sabha constituency you chose at sign-up, which is then locked.
Voting is free. No payment is required for, or linked to, voting, and payments never change any result.

3. How results are aggregated

Totals are simple counts of live votes for each answer option, shown as numbers and percentages.
State and national figures are the sum of votes from the constituencies inside that area. On maps, an area with no votes stays blank ("No data"), and equal leading options are shown as a tie.
Only anonymous aggregate totals are published. Individual votes are never shown with anyone's identity, and very small samples may be withheld to protect privacy.
Optional breakdowns (for example by age group, gender or community) are also aggregate counts only.
Historical snapshots are saved as they were and are not rewritten later.

4. Integrity checks

We use OTP verification, rate limits and hashed (one-way) security signals to reduce duplicate accounts and automated voting, and we may cancel votes from accounts that break our Terms of Use. These checks reduce abuse but cannot guarantee that every vote is genuine.

5. ECI blackout periods (Sections 126 and 126A)

India Opinion is designed to follow the restrictions in the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (source: India Code, Ministry of Law and Justice) and the ECI notifications published at www.eci.gov.in:

Section 126A (exit polls): during the period the ECI notifies for each election, from the start of poll in the first phase until half an hour after the close of poll in the last phase, no exit-poll result may be published.
Section 126 (48-hour silence period): election matter, which the ECI treats as including opinion-poll results, may not be displayed in the 48 hours ending with the hour fixed for the close of poll in a polling area.

Blackout windows are set from each ECI notification. During a window, results for the affected questions (tallies, percentages, maps and shareable result cards) are automatically hidden. Voting may continue, but results are shown again only after the window ends. India Opinion never conducts exit polls: we do not ask how anyone actually voted at a polling station.

6. Official sources

Disclaimer: India Opinion is not a government app and does not represent any government entity. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Election Commission of India (ECI), any Central or State Government, or any political party. Poll results are unscientific opinion surveys of app users, not official results. For official information, always use the sources below.

Government and election information shown in India Opinion comes from these official sources:

Election Commission of India (ECI): www.eci.gov.in
Elections, schedules, State/UT and constituency (delimitation) information, State Chief Electoral Officer websites
ECI Results: results.eci.gov.in
Official counting results; winning candidates and parties for Lok Sabha and Assembly seats
Voters' Services Portal (ECI): voters.eci.gov.in
Voter registration, electoral roll search and your official constituency
Lok Sabha (Digital Sansad): sansad.in/ls
Sitting Members of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
National Portal of India: www.india.gov.in
States and Union Territories, Governors, Lieutenant Governors and Administrators, Government of India information
Survey of India: surveyofindia.gov.in
Official maps of India; maps in India Opinion are simplified illustrations

7. Questions

Email contact@indiaopinion.online (email only). See also our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.