2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election

The 2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election was held on 7 December 2018 which marked the second electoral event since the state's formation in 2014.^[2] Key contenders included the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Indian National Congress (INC), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Telugu Desam Party (TDP).^[3]

2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election

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All 119 seats to Telangana Legislative Assembly 60 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	73.74%
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader K. Chandrashekar Rao N. Uttam Kumar Reddy Akbaruddin Owaisi Party TRS INC AIMIM Alliance - Praja Kutami - Leader since 2001 2015 1999 Leader's seat Gajwel^[1] Huzurnagar Chandrayangutta Last election 63 21 7 Seats won 88 19 7 Seat change 25 2 Popular vote 9,700,479 5,883,111 561,089 Percentage 46.9% 28.4% 2.7% Swing   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader L. Ramana K. Laxman Party TDP BJP Alliance Praja Kutami NDA Leader since - 2014 Leader's seat Did not contest Musheerabad (lost) Last election 15 5 Seats won 2 1 Seat change 13 4 Popular vote 725,845 1,450,456 Percentage 3.5% 6.98% Swing
CM before election K. Chandrasekhar Rao TRS Elected Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao TRS

An noteworthy development in the electoral landscape was the formation of the Praja Kutami (People's Alliance), comprising opposition parties such as INC, TDP, CPI and TJS. Despite their collective efforts, they were restricted to 21 seats. The election ultimately reaffirmed the political dominance of TRS, led by K. Chandrashekar Rao, as they secured victory with 88 seats and continued to govern the state of Telangana.^[4]

Background

The chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao called for an early election, when he resigned 6 September 2018, nine months before the completion of his term.

Since no other party had a majority, the house was dissolved by the governor and general elections were announced.

This election led to the alliance of TDP and INC, once arch rivals, coming together as part of Praja Kutami for the first time.

Electoral process changes

Election Commission of India announced that Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines will be used in all 32,574 polling stations in the assembly elections in Telangana.^[5] According to the final electoral rolls published on 12 October 2018, Telangana has 2,80,64,680 voters, which is less than 2,81,65,885 voters in 2014 Telangana assembly elections.^[6] There were around 2,600+ transgenders in the voters list.^[7]

Final voters list for Telangana Legislative Assembly election, 2018

S.No	Group of voters	Voters population
1	Male	1.38 crore
2	Female	1.35 crore
3	Transgender	5,560
-	Total voters	2,80,64,680

Schedule

The date of the election was 7 December 2018 and the result were to be out on 11 December 2018.^[8]

Event	Date	Day
Date for Nominations	12 Nov 2018	Monday
Last Date for filing Nominations	19 Nov 2018	Monday
Date for scrutiny of nominations	20 Nov 2018	Tuesday
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	22 Nov 2018	Thursday
Date of poll	7 Dec 2018	Friday
Date of counting	11 Dec 2018	Tuesday
Date before which the election shall be completed	13 Dec 2018	Thursday

Parties and alliances

 

Seat sharing agreement between the constituent parties of Praja Kutami

Alliance/Party				Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Telangana Rashtra Samithi					K. Chandrashekhar Rao	119
	Praja Kutami		Indian National Congress			N. Uttam Kumar Reddy	94	119
			Telugu Desam Party			L. Ramana	14
			Telangana Jana Samithi			M. Kodandaram	8
			Communist Party of India			Chada Venkat Reddy	3
	Bharatiya Janata Party					K. Laxman	118
	Bahujan Samaj Party					Mayawati	106
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)					Tammineni Veerabhadram	26
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen					Akbaruddin Owaisi	8

Results

Vote share

Vote share by party

  Telangana Rashtra Samithi (46.87%)

  Indian National Congress (28.43%)

  Bharatiya Janata Party (6.98%)

  Telugu Desam Party (3.51%)

  All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (2.71%)

  Others (11.50%)

Seat share

Seat share by party

  Telangana Rashtra Samithi (73.94%)

  Indian National Congress (15.96%)

  All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (5.88%)

  Telugu Desam Party (1.68%)

  Bharatiya Janata Party (0.84%)

  Others (1.68%)

Results by party

Source: Election Commission of India

Alliance/Party				Popular vote		Seats
				Votes	%	Contested	Won	+/−
	Telangana Rashtra Samithi			9,700,948	46.87	119	88	25
	Praja Kutami		Indian National Congress	5,883,088	28.43	94	19	2
			Telugu Desam Party	725,714	3.51	14	2	13
			Telangana Jana Samithi	95,364	0.46	8	0
			Communist Party of India	83,215	0.40	3	0	1
		Total		6,787,381	32.80	119	21	N/A
	Bharatiya Janata Party			1,443,799	6.98	118	1	4
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen			561,091	2.71	8	7
	Other parties			1,303,939	6.30	782	1	N/A
	Independents			673,609	3.25	675	1
	NOTA			224,661	1.09
Total				20,695,428	100.00	1,821	119	N/A
Vote statistics
Valid votes				20,695,428	99.97
Invalid votes				6,355	0.03
Votes cast/ turnout				20,701,783	73.74
Abstentions				7,374,129	26.26
Registered voters				28,075,912

Results by district

District	Seats	TRS	INC	TDP	AIMIM	BJP	Others
Adilabad	10	9	1	0	0	0	0
Nizamabad	9	8	1	0	0	0	0
Karimnagar	13	11	1	0	0	0	1
Medak	10	9	1	0	0	0	0
Ranga Reddy	14	11	3	0	0	0	0
Hyderabad	15	7	0	0	7	1	0
Mahbubnagar	14	13	1	0	0	0	0
Nalgonda	12	9	3	0	0	0	0
Warangal	12	10	2	0	0	0	0
Khammam	10	1	6	2	0	0	1
Total	119	88	19	2	7	1	2

Results by constituency

Assembly Constituency		Winner				Runner Up				Margin
#	Name	Candidate	Party		Votes	Candidate	Party		Votes
Adilabad district
1	Sirpur	Koneru Konappa		TRS	83,088	Palvai Harish Babu		INC	59,052	24,036
2	Chennur (SC)	Balka Suman		TRS	71,980	Venkatesh Netha Borlakunta		INC	43,848	28,132
3	Bellampalli (SC)	Durgam Chinnaiah		TRS	55,026	Gaddam Vinod		BSP	43,750	11,276
4	Mancherial	Diwakar Rao Nadipelli		TRS	75,360	Kokkirala Premsagar Rao		INC	70,512	4,848
5	Asifabad (ST)	Atram Sakku		INC	65788	Kova Laxmi		TRS	65617	171
6	Khanapur (ST)	Ajmeera Rekha		TRS	67,138	Ramesh Rathod		INC	46,428	20,710
7	Adilabad	Jogu Ramanna		TRS	74,050	Payal Shankar		BJP	47,444	26,606
8	Boath (ST)	Rathod Bapu Rao		TRS	61,125	Soyam Bapu Rao		INC	54,639	6,486
9	Nirmal	Allola Indrakaran Reddy		TRS	79,985	Alleti Maheshwar Reddy		INC	70,714	9,271
10	Mudhole	Gaddigari Vittal Reddy		TRS	83,933	Padakanti Ramadevi		BJP	40,602	43,331
Nizamabad district
11	Armur	Asannagari Jeevan Reddy		TRS	72,125	Akula Lalitha		INC	43,330	28,795
12	Bodhan	Shakil Aamir Mohammed		TRS	74,895	Sudarshan Reddy Podduturi		INC	66,794	8,101
13	Jukkal (SC)	Hanmanth Shinde		TRS	77,584	Gangaram S		INC	41,959	35,625
14	Banswada	Pocharam Srinivas Reddy		TRS	77,943	Kasula Balaraju		INC	59,458	18,485
15	Yellareddy	Jajala Surender		INC	91,510	Eanugu Ravinder Reddy		TRS	56,362	35,148
16	Kamareddy	Gampa Govardhan		TRS	68,167	Mohammed Ali Shabbir		INC	63,610	4,557
17	Nizamabad Urban	Bigala Ganesh		TRS	71,896	Taher Bin Hamdan		INC	46,055	25,841
18	Nizamabad Rural	Baji Reddy Goverdhan		TRS	87,976	Rekulapally Bhoopathi Reddy		INC	58,330	29,646
19	Balkonda	Vemula Prashanth Reddy		TRS	73,662	Sunil Kumar Muthyala		BSP	41,254	32,408
Karimnagar district
20	Koratla	Kalvakuntla Vidya Sagar Rao		TRS	84.605	Juvvadi Narsinga Rao		INC	53,385	31,220
21	Jagtial	M. Sanjay Kumar		TRS	104,247	Jeevan Reddy Thatiparthi		INC	43,062	61,185
22	Dharmapuri (SC)	Koppula Eshwar		TRS	70,579	Adluri Laxman Kumar		INC	70,138	441
23	Ramagundam	Korukanti Chandar		AIFB	61,400	Somarapu Satyanarayana		TRS	34,981	26,419
24	Manthani	Sridhar Babu		INC	89,045	Putta Madhukar		TRS	72,815	16,230
25	Peddapalle	Dasari Manohar Reddy		TRS	82,765	Chinthakunta Vijaya Ramana Rao		INC	74,299	8,466
26	Karimnagar	Gangula Kamalakar		TRS	80,983	Bandi Sanjay Kumar		BJP	66,009	14,974
27	Choppadandi (SC)	Ravi Shankar Sunke		TRS	91,090	Medipally Sathyam		INC	48,963	42,127
28	Vemulawada	Chennamaneni Ramesh		TRS	84,050	Aadi Srinivas		INC	55,864	28,186
29	Sircilla	K. T. Rama Rao		TRS	125,213	K. K. Mahender Reddy		INC	36,204	89,009
30	Manakondur (SC)	Rasamayi Balakishan		TRS	88,997	Arepalli Mohan		INC	57,488	31,509
31	Huzurabad	Etela Rajender		TRS	104,840	Kaushik Reddy Padi		INC	61,121	43,719
32	Husnabad	Vodithela Sathish Kumar		TRS	96,517	Chada Venkat Reddy		CPI	46,553	49,964
Medak district
33	Siddipet	T. Harish Rao		TRS	131,295	Bhavani Marikanti		TJS	12,596	118,699
34	Medak	Padma Devender Reddy		TRS	97,670	Ammareddy Gari Upender Reddy		INC	49,687	47,983
35	Narayankhed	Mahareddy Bhupal Reddy		TRS	95,550	Suresh Shetkar		INC	37,042	58,508
36	Andole (SC)	Kranthi Kiran Chanti		TRS	104,229	Damodar Raja Narasimha		INC	87,764	16,465
37	Narsapur	Chilumula Madan Reddy		TRS	105,665	Vakiti Sunitha Laxma Reddy		INC	67,345	38,320
38	Zahirabad (SC)	Koninty Manik Rao		TRS	96,598	J. Geeta Reddy		INC	62,125	34,473
39	Sangareddy	Turupu Jayaprakash Reddy		INC	76,572	Chinta Prabhakar		TRS	73,983	2,589
40	Patancheru	Gudem Mahipal Reddy		TRS	116,474	Kata Srinivas Goud		INC	78,775	37,699
41	Dubbak	Solipeta Ramalinga Reddy		TRS	89,299	Maddula Nageshwar Reddy		INC	26,799	62,500
42	Gajwel	K. Chandrashekar Rao		TRS	125,444	Vanteru Pratap Reddy		INC	67,154	58,290
Ranga Reddy district
43	Medchal	Malla Reddy		TRS	167,324	Kicchannagari Laxma Reddy		INC	79,334	87,990
44	Malkajgiri	Mynampally Hanumantha Rao		TRS	114,149	Naraparaju Ramchander Rao		BJP	40,451	73,698
45	Quthbullapur	K. P. Vivekanand Goud		TRS	154,500	Kuna Srisailam Goud		INC	113,000	41,500
46	Kukatpally	Madhavaram Krishna Rao		TRS	111,612	Nandamuri Venkata Suhasini		TDP	70,563	41,049
47	Uppal	Bethi Subhas Reddy		TRS	117,442	Tulla Veerender Goud		TDP	69,274	48,168
48	Ibrahimpatnam	Manchireddy Kishan Reddy		TRS	72,581	Malreddy Ranga Reddy		BSP	72,205	376
49	L. B. Nagar	Devireddy Sudheer Reddy		INC	113,980	Muddagowni Ram Mohan Goud		TRS	96,132	17,848
50	Maheshwaram	Sabitha Indra Reddy		INC	95,481	Teegala Krishna Reddy		TRS	86,254	9,227
51	Rajendranagar	T. Prakash Goud		TRS	108,964	Ganesh Renukuntla		TDP	50,591	58,373
52	Serilingampally	Arekapudi Gandhi		TRS	143,307	V. Ananda Prasad		TDP	99,012	44,295
53	Chevella (SC)	Kale Yadaiah		TRS	99,168	K. S. Ratnam		INC	65,616	33,552
54	Pargi	K. Mahesh Reddy		TRS	83,467	T. Ram Mohan Reddy		INC	67,626	15,841
55	Vikarabad (SC)	Anand Methuku		TRS	59,971	G. Prasad Kumar		INC	56,879	3,092
56	Tandur	Pilot Rohith Reddy		INC	70,428	P. Mahender Reddy		TRS	67,553	2,875
Hyderabad district
57	Musheerabad	Muta Gopal		TRS	72,997	Anil Kumar Yadav		INC	36,087	36,910
58	Malakpet	Ahmed Bin Abdullah Balala		AIMIM	53,281	Mohammed Muzaffar Ali Khan		TDP	29,769	23,512
59	Amberpet	K. Venkatesham		TRS	61,558	G. Kishan Reddy		BJP	60,542	1,016
60	Khairatabad	Danam Nagender		TRS	63,068	Chintala Ramachandra Reddy		BJP	34,666	28,402
61	Jubilee Hills	Maganti Gopinath		TRS	68,979	P. Vishnuvardhan Reddy		INC	52,975	16,004
62	Sanathnagar	Talasani Srinivas Yadav		TRS	66,464	Kuna Venkatesh Goud		TDP	35,813	30,651
63	Nampally	Jaffer Hussain		AIMIM	57,940	Mohammed Feroz Khan		INC	48,265	9,675
64	Karwan	Kausar Mohiuddin		AIMIM	87,586	Amar Singh		BJP	37,417	50,169
65	Goshamahal	T. Raja Singh		BJP	61,854	Prem Singh Rathore		TRS	44,120	17,734
66	Charminar	Mumtaz Ahmed Khan		AIMIM	53,808	T. Uma Mahendra		BJP	21,222	32,,586
67	Chandrayangutta	Akbaruddin Owaisi		AIMIM	95,339	Shahejadi Sayyad		BJP	15,075	80,264
68	Yakutpura	Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri		AIMIM	69,595	Sama Sunder Reddy		TRS	22,617	46,978
69	Bahadurpura	Mohammad Moazam Khan		AIMIM	96,993	Mir Inayath Ali Baqri		TRS	14,475	82,518
70	Secunderabad	T. Padma Rao Goud		TRS	79,309	Kasani Gnaneshwar Mudiraj		INC	33,839	45,470
71	Secunderabad Cantt. (SC)	G. Sayanna		TRS	65,797	Sarve Satyanarayana		INC	28,234	37,563
Mahabubnagar district
72	Kodangal	Patnam Narendra Reddy		TRS	80,754	Revanth Reddy		INC	71,435	9,319
73	Narayanpet	S. Rajender Reddy		TRS	68,767	K. Shivkumar Reddy		Others	53,580	15,187
74	Mahbubnagar	V. Srinivas Goud		TRS	86,474	M. Chandra Shekhar		TDP	28,699	57,775
75	Jadcherla	Charlakota Laxma Reddy		TRS	94,598	Mallu Ravi		INC	49,516	45,082
76	Devarkadra	Alla Venkateshwar Reddy		TRS	96,130	Pavan Kumar		INC	60,882	35,248
77	Makthal	Chittem Ram Mohan Reddy		TRS	78,686	Jalander Reddy		IND	30,371	48,315
78	Wanaparthy	Singireddy Niranjan Reddy		TRS	111,956	Jillela Chinna Reddy		INC	60,271	51,685
79	Gadwal	Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy		TRS	100,415	D. K. Aruna		INC	72,155	28,260
80	Alampur (SC)	V. M. Abraham		TRS	102,105	S. A. Sampath Kumar		INC	57,426	44,679
81	Nagarkurnool	Marri Janardhan Reddy		TRS	102,493	Nagam Janardhan Reddy		INC	48,139	54,354
82	Achampet (SC)	Guvvala Balaraju		TRS	88,073	Chikkudu Vamshikrishna		INC	78,959	91,14
83	Kalwakurthy	Gurka Jaipal Yadav		TRS	62,892	Achary Talloju		BJP	59,445	3,447
84	Shadnagar	Anjaiah Yelganamoni		TRS	72,315	Chowlapally Pratap Reddy		INC	51,890	20,425
85	Kollapur	Beeram Harshavardhan Reddy		INC	80,611	Jupally Krishna Rao		TRS	68,068	12,543
Nalgonda district
86	Devarakonda (ST)	Ravindra Kumar Ramavath		TRS	96,454	Balu Naik Nenavath		INC	57,606	38,848
87	Nagarjuna Sagar	Nomula Narsimhaiah		TRS	83,655	Kunduru Jana Reddy		INC	75,884	7,771
88	Miryalaguda	Nallamothu Bhaskar Rao		TRS	83,931	R. Krishnaiah		INC	53,279	30,652
89	Huzurnagar	N. Uttam Kumar Reddy		INC	92,996	Shanampudi Saidireddy		TRS	85,530	7,466
90	Kodad	Bollam Mallaiah Yadav		TRS	89,115	N. Padmavathi Reddy		INC	88,359	756
91	Suryapet	Guntakandla Jagadish Reddy		TRS	68,650	Damodar Reddy Ram Reddy		INC	62,683	5,967
92	Nalgonda	Kancharla Bhupal Reddy		TRS	98,792	Komatireddy Venkat Reddy		INC	75,094	23,698
93	Munugode	Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy		INC	97,239	Kusukuntla Prabhakar Reddy		TRS	74,687	22,552
94	Bhongir	Pailla Shekar Reddy		TRS	85,476	Anil Kumar Reddy Kumbam		INC	61,413	24,063
95	Nakrekal (SC)	Chirumarthi Lingaiah		INC	93,699	Vemula Veeresham		TRS	85,440	8,259
96	Thungathurthi (SC)	Gadari Kishore Kumar		TRS	90,857	Addanki Dayakar		INC	89,010	1,847
97	Alair	Gongidi Sunitha		TRS	94,870	Budida Bikshamaiah Goud		INC	61,784	33,086
Warangal district
98	Jangaon	Muthireddy Yadagiri Reddy		TRS	91,592	Ponnala Lakshmaiah		INC	62,024	29,568
99	Ghanpur (Station) (SC)	Thatikonda Rajaiah		TRS	98,612	Indira Singapuram		INC	62,822	35,790
100	Palakurthi	Errabelli Dayakar Rao		TRS	117,504	Janga Ragavareddy		INC	64,451	53,053
101	Dornakal	D. S. Redya Naik		TRS	88,307	Jatoth Ram Chandru Naik		INC	70,926	17,381
102	Mahabubabad (ST)	Banoth Shankar Nayak		TRS	85,397	Balram Naik		INC	71,863	13,534
103	Narsampet	Peddi Sudarshan Reddy		TRS	94,135	Donthi Madhava Reddy		INC	77,186	16,949
104	Parkal	Challa Dharma Reddy		TRS	105,903	Konda Surekha		INC	59,384	46,519
105	Warangal West	Dasyam Vinay Bhasker		TRS	81,006	Revuri Prakash Reddy		TDP	44,555	36,451
106	Warangal East	Narendar Nannapuneni		TRS	83,922	Ravi Chandra Vaddiraju		INC	55,140	28,782
107	Waradhanapet (SC)	Aroori Ramesh		TRS	131,252	Devaiah Pagidipati		TJS	32,012	99,240
108	Bhupalpalle	Gandra Venkata Ramana Reddy		INC	69,918	Gandra Sathyanarayana Rao		AIFB	54,283	15,635
109	Mulug (ST)	Dansari Anasuya		INC	88,971	Azmeera Chandulal		TRS	66,300	22,671
Khammam district
110	Pinapaka (ST)	Kantha Rao Rega		INC	72,283	Payam Venkateswarlu		TRS	52,718	19,565
111	Yellandu (ST)	Haripriya Banoth		INC	70,644	Koram Kanakaiah		TRS	67,757	2,887
112	Khammam	Puvvada Ajay Kumar		TRS	102,760	Nama Nageswara Rao		TDP	91,769	10,991
113	Palair	Kandala Upender Reddy		INC	89,407	Thummala Nageswara Rao		TRS	81,738	7,669
114	Madhira (SC)	Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka		INC	80,598	Kamal Raju Lingala		TRS	77,031	3,567
115	Wyra (ST)	Lavudya Ramulu		IND	52,650	Banoth Madan Lal		TRS	50,637	2,013
116	Sathupalli (SC)	Sandra Venkata Veeraiah		TDP	100,044	Pidamarthi Ravi		TRS	81,042	19,002
117	Kothagudem	Vanama Nageswar Rao		INC	81,118	Jalagam Venkat Rao		TRS	76,979	4,139
118	Aswaraopeta (ST)	Mecha Nageswara Rao		TDP	61,124	Thati Venkateswarlu		TRS	48,007	13,117
119	Bhadrachalam (ST)	Podem Veeraiah		INC	47,746	Tellam Venkata Rao		TRS	35,961	11,785

See also

• 2018 elections in India
• List of constituencies of Telangana Legislative Assembly

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