Telangana Election Results - 10 things to know with detail
- 1. Telangana Legislative Assembly elections were held on December 7, 2018, to elect members to the 119-seat assembly.
- 2. The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) led by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao emerged as the largest party, winning 88 seats.
- 3. The Indian National Congress emerged as the second-largest party with 19 seats, followed by the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) with 7 seats.
- 4. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won only one seat in the Telangana assembly elections.
- 5. K. Chandrashekar Rao was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Telangana for a second consecutive term.
- 6. The voter turnout in Telangana was recorded at 73.20%, slightly lower than the previous assembly elections in 2014.
- 7. The TRS secured a vote share of 46.9%, while the Congress got 28.4% and the BJP got 7.1%.
- 8. Several prominent leaders from the Congress party, including Uttam Kumar Reddy and Revanth Reddy, lost in the elections.
- 9. The TRS government in Telangana is expected to focus on welfare schemes, development projects, and irrigation initiatives in its second term.
- 10. The election results in Telangana were seen as a setback for the Congress party, which had hoped to perform better in the state.