Assembly Election Results 2023: Congress crosses majority mark in Telangana

By Lokmat English Desk | Published: December 3, 2023 09:39 AM2023-12-03T09:39:54+5:302023-12-03T09:40:27+5:30

Congress party has taken takes a massive lead in Telangana and has crossed the majority mark, outshining KCR's bastion. ...

Assembly Election Results 2023: Congress crosses majority mark in Telangana | Assembly Election Results 2023: Congress crosses majority mark in Telangana

Assembly Election Results 2023: Congress crosses majority mark in Telangana

Congress party has taken takes a massive lead in Telangana and has crossed the majority mark, outshining KCR's bastion. Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is currently leading in 40 seats. There are 119 Assembly seats in Telangana and the most important ones include Kamareddy and Gajwel from where the current CM KCR is contested. Congress party's Anumula Revanth Reddy is also contested from two seats namely, Kodangal and Kamareddy. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Etela Rajender contested from Gajwel and Huzurabad, which are also one of the key constituency seats in this elections. One of the main influential regional parties AIMIM contested from 9 seats this year and its one of the top leaders Akbaruddin Owaisi contested from Chandrayangutta. Voting for 119 seats in Telangana was held on November 30. 

Exit polls suggested that the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) with Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao at the helm is likely to get only 34–44 seats while the Congress is predicted to win 63–73 seats.According to the Election Commission, a voter turnout of 70.60% was recorded. The turnout was the highest in Jangaon at 83.34%, trailed closely by Narasampet at 83% and Dubbak at 82.75%. Notably, the voting percentage in Hyderabad was low at only 39.97%. In all, 32.6 million voters were enrolled and 35,655 polling stations were set up across the state.As many as 2,290 contestants are in the fray including key candidates such as chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao from two constituencies – Kamareddy and Gajwel, his minister-son K T Rama Rao from Sircilla, Telangana Congress unit chief A Revanth Reddy from Kamareddy and Kodangal, senior BJP leader Eatala Rajender from Gajwel and Huzurabad, and BJP Lok Sabha member Bandi Sanjay Kumar from Karimnagar.


 

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