Telangana Election Results 2018: What We Know So Far

The TRS is on course to return to power with a thumping majority in Telangana if the initial trends hold.

• The The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) is on course to return to power with a thumping majority in Telangana if the initial trends hold, with party candidates leading in over 85 out of the total 119 assembly constituencies. Congress was leading in 18 segments.
• Ruling TRS won 17 seats and the Congress three, as per results available till 1 pm.
• The Telangana Bhavan, the headquarters of ruling TRS, wore a festive look with a large number of TRS activists dancing to drum-beats, bursting crackers and distributing sweets, hailing the 'victory' of the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led outfit.
• The Congress, which forged an opposition alliance with the Telugu Desam Party, the Telangana Jana Samiti, and the CPI, was heading for a heavy defeat, according to initial trends.

• As per the latest trends after the counting of votes began this morning, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, his son K T Rama Rao, his nephew T Harish Rao and several of his cabinet colleagues in the caretaker government were leading in their respective constituencies.
• The TRS contested the elections on its own after the Rao government opted to dissolve the assembly in September more than eight months ahead of its tenure.
• KCR, as the caretaker chief minister is referred to by many, won the Gajwel constituency by over 50,000 votes, defeating his nearest Congress rival Vanteru Pratap Reddy.

• In Siddipet segment, TRS candidate T Harish Rao, a nephew of the chief minister, established an unassailable lead of 1,19,622 votes after completion of 19 rounds of counting around 1pm.
• The BJP, which had won five seats in alliance with the TDP in the previous elections in 2014, went alone this time and was leading in two constituencies.
• The Congress delegation submitted a complaint to Telangana Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Rajat Kumar raising suspicions that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) have been manipulated in the state.

(With inputs from PTI)