Telangana Election Result 2023: Check full list of BRS, Congress, BJP winners

Telangana Assembly Election Result 2023: The counting for the Telangana polls is currently underway, with Congress taking the lead in 67 seats. It is a tight contest between the Bharat Raksha Samithi (BRS), Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to lead the southern state. The Telangana Assembly has 119 seats and the halfway mark rests at 60 seats.

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The winning party must be able to secure 60 or more seats to be able to form the government in the southern state. Will this election mark the return of KCR or will Congress get a chance to govern the state? Among the key contenders for the Chief Minister’s chair are the incumbent CM K Chandrasekhar Rao, Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, controversial BJP leader T Raja Singh, Anumula Revanth Reddy, former Team India captain Mohammed Azharuddin, Mynampally Hanumantha Rao, and Eatala Rajender.

The key constituencies to watch in Telangana are Gajwel, Huzurabad, Korutla, Maheshwaram, Goshamahal, Mahbubnagar, LB Nagar, Warangal East and West, Bhupalpelle, Khairatabad, Amberpet, Boath, Nirmal, Adilabad, Ramagundam, Peddapalli, Kothagudem, Armoor, Nizamabad Urban, Patancheru, Serilingampally, Husnabad, Dubbak, and Kalwakurthy.

Check out the full list of those leading in Telangana election 2023 here

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Telangana Elections exit polls 2023

Exit polls predict a majority for Congress in the state, with Today’s Chanakya predicting 62-80 seats for the grand old party and Jan ki Baat predicting 48-64 seats. Polstrat, on the other hand, gave a more measured prediction on how many seats the Congress could win in Telangana.

 Polstrat exit poll on Telangana said that the grand old party could win anywhere between 49-56 seats in the state. The polls predicted that the KCR-led BRS will give a close fight to the Congress whereas the BJP will struggle to make political inroads inside the state.

What happened in 2018 Telangana polls?

The Bharat Raksha Samithi bagged 88 seats whereas Congress emerged as the second largest party with 19 seats. The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) secured 7 seats whereas the BJP could win only one seat in the state. The BJP won the Dubbak seat in the 2020 by-elections and the Huzurabad seat in the 2021 bypolls, taking its total seats in the state to 3.

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