Telangana Elections: With just 2 per cent more vote share, Congress triumphed over BRS

Hyderabad: An analysis of the results of the 2023 Telangana State Assembly Elections revealed that Congress got two per cent more votes than BRS in the 64 Assembly seats it secured out of 119 Assembly seats. This difference gave a clear majority for the Indian National Congress (INC) in their first election victory since the state of Telangana was formed, ending a 10-year BRS regime.

With the Telangana State Assembly election results declared on December 3 for the votes polled on November 30, the fate of 2,290 total contesting candidates was also decided.

Right from the beginning, the trend showed Indian National Congress (INC) leading and Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS or BHRS) trailing and this trend continued throughout. INC comfortably crossed the halfway mark (60) and won seats from 64 constituencies out of 119, followed by Bharat Rashtra Samithi which secured 39 seats, eight seats by BJP, seven by AIMIM and one seat by CPI.

Here is a breakdown of the percentage share of votes for each party

INC secured 39.40 % votes

BRS got 37.35 % votes

BJP got 13.90 % votes

AIMIM got 2.22 % votes

BSP got 1.37 % votes

All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) got 0.62 % votes

CPI got 0.34 % votes

CPI(M) got 0.22 % votes

NOTA (None of the above) got 0.73 % votes

Others got 3.84 % in total

From 2018, BRS vote share fell by 10 %, INC improved by 11 %

While INC secured all their share of seats from the districts and none in Hyderabad city, BRS fared pretty well in the city but lost in the districts and the rural belt. AIMIM managed to retain all their seven seats in the Old City but lost the other two they contested this time – Rajendranagar and Jubilee Hills.

The vote share of the BRS party dropped by 10 per cent – from 47 per cent in the 2018 elections to 37.35 per cent vote share in 2023. INC, on the other hand, had an overall increase of 11 per cent vote share – from 28.4 per cent in the last elections to 39.4 per cent in 2023.

In 2018, BRS secured 88 seats while Congress had managed only 19 seats. With eight seats this time, BJP has also gained seven more seats and doubled its vote share from seven per cent to 13.90 per cent.

Vote margins: The margin of votes for a candidate’s win or loss ranged between just a few hundred votes to several thousand. Here are some of the biggest and narrowest margins of victory in this election.

Massive margin win

BRS candidate KP Vivekanand from Quthbullapur defeated Kuna Srisailam Goud of BJP by a massive margin of 85,576 votes.

At Siddipet, Thanneeru Harish Rao of BRS defeated Pujala Hari Krishna of INC by a huge margin of 82,308 votes

At Chandrayangutta, AIMIM’s Akbaruddin Owaisi defeated BRS candidate M Seetharam Reddy by a huge margin of 81,660 votes.

At Kukatpally, BRS candidate Madhavaram Krishna Rao defeated INC’s Bandi Ramesh by a substantial margin of 70,387 votes.

At Nakrekal, INC’s Vemula Veeresham defeated Chirumarthy Lingaiah of BRS by a margin of 68,839 votes.

At Bahadurpura, the margin between the first and the second place was 67,025 votes where AIMIM’s Mohammed Mubeen defeated BRS candidate Mir Inayath

Ali Baqri.

Narrowest margins

At Chevella, INC’s Beem Bharath Pamena was defeated by BRS candidate Kale Yadaiah by a margin of only 268 votes.

At Yakutpura, Amjed Ullah Khan of MBT lost to Jaffar Hussain of AIMIM by a margin of just 878 votes.

At Jukkal, INC’s Laxmi Kantha Rao Thota defeated Hanmant Shinde of BRS by a margin of 1,152 votes.

At Devarkadra, INC candidate G Madhusudan Reddy defeated Alla Venkateshwar Reddy of BRS by a margin of just 1,392 votes.

At Nampally, AIMIM’s Mohammed Majid Hussain defeated INC’s Mohammed Feroz Khan by a margin of only 2,037 votes.

At Bodhan, P Sudarshan Reddy of the INC won by a margin of 3,062 votes defeating BRS candidate Md Shakil Aamir.

Revanth Reddy, KCR’s win and loss margins

Both leaders, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president Revanth Reddy and former chief minister of Telangana K Chandrashekar Rao

contested from two Assembly constituencies and both won one seat while losing the other.

Congress candidate Anumula Revanth Reddy won by a margin of 32,532 votes defeating BRS candidate Patnam Narender Reddy at Kodangal but he lost to BJP’s Katipally Venkata Ramana Reddy at Kamareddy by a margin of 11,736 votes.

Even KCR lost to the BJP candidate at Kamareddy by 6,741 votes. But KCR won from Gajwel defeating BJP’s Eatala Rajender by a margin of 45,031 votes.