ANANDA BHASKARs SWING ZONES IN ANDHRA PRADESH:: OPINION POLLS

ANANDA BHASKAR RAPOLU has excelled in conducting OPINION polls. His psephology techniques and tools were of his own, taken hard learning models from Gallop Polls and Prannoy Roy experiments for India Today. ANANDA BHASKAR developed Map of the state of Andhra Pradesh for segregating the zones of SWING, which were used to decide the locations of sample in 1980s and 1990s. ANANDA BHASKAR's SWING ZONES Maps are still worth to study and use. Below they are given: ANDHRA PRADESH SWING ZONES BY ANANDA BHASKAR Psephology of various previous polls, polling trends, response correlations based identification done by ANANDA BHASKAR in late 1980s and conducted several surveys following these swing zones by him for Udayam and Vaartha Telugu dailies. DISTRICT WISE COLOUR SEGREGATION OF SWING:

01 TO 05 %: YELLOW; 06 TO 10 %: PINK; 11 TO 15 %: GREEN; 16 TO 25 %: RED;

ANANDA BHASKAR MODELS IN PSEPHOLOGY: EXPERIMENTS IN TELUGU JOURNALISM IN 1980s & 1990s

ANANDA BHASKARs SWING ZONES IN ANDHRA PRADESH:: OPINION POLLS

01 to 05 %: YELLOW KHAMMAM; KRISHNA; KURNOOL; CHITTOOR

06 to 10 %: PINK NIZAMABAD; WARANGAL; GUNTUR; PRAKASHAM; SRIKAKULAM

ANANDA BHASKAR MODELS IN PSEPHOLOGY: EXPERIMENTS IN TELUGU JOURNALISM IN 1980s & 1990s

ANANDA BHASKARs SWING ZONES IN ANDHRA PRADESH:: OPINION POLLS

11 to 15 %: GREEN ADILABAD; KARIMNAGAR; MEDAK; NALGONDA; MAHABOOBNAGAR; ANANTAPUR;

16 to 25 %: RED RANGAREDDY; KADAPA; WEST GODAVARI; EAST GODAVARI ANDHRA PRADESH SWING ZONES BY ANANDA BHASKAR Psephology of various previous polls, polling trends, response correlations based identification done by ANANDA BHASKAR in late 1980s and conducted several surveys following these swing zones by him for Udayam and Vaartha Telugu dailies.

ANANDA BHASKAR MODELS IN PSEPHOLOGY: EXPERIMENTS IN TELUGU JOURNALISM IN 1980s & 1990s

ANANDA BHASKARs SWING ZONES IN ANDHRA PRADESH:: OPINION POLLS

DISTRICT WISE COLOUR SEGREGATION OF SWING ZONES: 01 TO 05 %: YELLOW; 06 TO 10 %: PINK; 11 TO 15 %: GREEN; 16 TO 25 %: RED;

ZONE - AREA - LOCATION The swing assessment is basic elector response on macro level of district. From every district, swing areas have to be taken based on at least 3 previous elections. From these micro swing areas, random swing locations [polling booths] have to be taken. These micro geographic - demographic firming up is a must for accuracy to begin with. Then, the age group, gender, social and earning / occupational factors have to be taken. General formula of age, social and earning / occupational factors will serve the purpose. . Ananda Bhaskar's experiments in Telugu Journalism between 1980 and 1994 are later became useful for the Journalists of Generation Next. Ananda Bhaskar Rapolu came out of practicing Journalism in 1994 February to plunge into public life as whole timer of Indian National Congress.

ANANDA BHASKAR MODELS IN PSEPHOLOGY: EXPERIMENTS IN TELUGU JOURNALISM IN 1980s & 1990s