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Telangana Election Result 2023: Key constituencies, total voters – all you need to know
Telangana Election Result 2023: The high-stakes Telangana Assembly elections are witnessing a triangular contest involving the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Congress. Voting was held on Thursday (November 30) for the 119-member state Legislative Assembly. Telangana is one of the five states which went to polls in November 2023 ahead of the 2024 general elections next year. The results will be announced on December 3 (Sunday).
In Telangana, the total number of eligible voters is 3.17 crore, from which 5,32,990 are the first-time voters and there are 5,06,493, 2,557, and 4,43,943 individuals identified as PwD. Third Gender, and Senior Citizens (80+) respectively.
While the BJP has an ambitious goal of seeing its first government in Telangana, the Congress is hoping to come to power on the basis of the “momentum” of the past few months. But the party has a huge, almost 18 percent gap to cover in terms of voting percentage of previous assembly elections.
In last elections in 2018, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) won by securing 88 seats. The Congress was runners up with 19 seats, and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) won just two seats. The BJP secured one seat; the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) won seven seats, and independent candidates claimed one seat.
The list of important constituencies includes Gajwel, Huzurabad, Korutla, Maheshwaram, Goshamahal, Mahbubnagar, LB Nagar, Warangal East and West, Bhupalapally, Khairatabad, Amberpet, Boath, Nirmal, Adilabad, Ramagundam, Peddapalli, Kothagudem, Armoor, Nizamabad Urban, Patancheru, Serilingampally, Husnabad, Dubbak, Kalwakurthy, and others.
Incumbent Chief Minister and the founder of BRS, K Chandrashekar Rao, or KCR, is contesting from two seats: his original seat, Gajwel, and Kamareddy. In the 2018 elections, KCR secured a victory in Gajwel by over 58,000 votes. This time, he faces BJP leader Etela Rajender in Gajwel and Congress state unit chief Revanth Reddy in Kamareddy.
His son and Telangana minister K T Rama Rao is contesting from the Sircilla seat, which he won in 2018 by a significant margin of over 89,000 votes.
Express Web Desk – 2023-11-30 15:04