Live Updates: Telangana MLC elections results

The counting of votes for the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda and Mahbubnagar-Rangareddy-Hyderabad graduates' constituencies began on March 17 at 8 am. It is going to be a lengthy process to count a large number of votes preserved in the jumbo ballot boxes each consisting of 500 to 800 votes.

The early trends show Telangana Rashtra Samithi is leading from both constituencies.

1 PM : The results at the end of round 1 and 2 for Hyderabad- RangaReddy- Mahabubnagar Graduate constituency shows TRS in the lead:

TRS- 35,171

BJP4Telangana- 32,558

Prof Nageshwar- 16951

INCTelangana- 10062

JaiTDP- 1811

Invalid votes- 6749

Grand total- 112029

9 AM: After 1st round of counting, TRS is leading by 1,044 votes from the Hyderabad-Rangareddy-Mahabubnagar Graduate constituency.

G Chinna Reddy(Congress): 5,101

Prof Nageshwar(Ind): 8,357

N Ramchander Rao(BJP): 16,385

S Vani Devi(TRS): 17,429

After the second round of counting, the TRS candidate Rajeswar Reddy is leading by 7,871 votes from the Khammam-Warangal-Nalgonda Graduate constituency.

Palla Rajeswar Reddy(TRS): 31,987

Teenmar Mallanna(Ind): 24,116

M Kodanda Ram(TJS): 18,528

G Premendar Reddy(BJP): 13,284

Ramulu Naik(Congress): 7598

Around 1,530 polling centres were set up in 21 districts of the state and around 7,560 officials were deployed at these polling centres. A total of 93 candidates were in the fray for the Mahabubnagar-Rangareddy-Hyderabad seat while 71 candidates contested for the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda seat.

The Hyderabad-Rangareddy-Mahabubnagar seat recorded total polling of 67.26 per cent while the Khammam-Warangal-Nalgonda seat witnessed participation of 76.41 per cent voters.