The Southern State of Andhra Pradesh went for Assembly Elections simultaneously with the Lok Sabha Elections. The ruling Congress party under Chief Minister Dr.Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy not only survived against the Anti-incumbency factor but also managed to pip a strong Grand Alliance led by the Telugu Desam Party along with the TRS and the Communists. Megastar Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam Party turned out to be a dud in its maiden elections but did manage to split the Anti-establishment votes.
The Congress for the second time was in a position to form the Government on its own, this time its tally did fall down to 158 from the 2004 figure of 185. YSR could well be ruling the state for a total of 10 years which could beat Chandrababu’s rule of 9 years prior to that. The TDP came second with 95 seats, clearly doubling its numbers from 2004 but just not enough numbers to come back in power.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) was reduced to a meagre 10 seats this time and in a way perhaps putting doubts about the formation of the Telangana State.
The Congress got past the magic figure of 148 but had to face embarassment of quite a few Ministers and also Speaker KR Suresh Reddy losing the elections! The State Congress No.2 D.Srinivas also was embarassed in his Nizamabad (Urban) constituency. The Elections saw the maiden entry of Chiranjeevi into the Assembly, the PRP founder won from Tirupati but had to face defeat in Palacole!
Here is the breakdown of the seats won out of the 294 Assembly Seats by the various parties :
The Congress for the second time was in a position to form the Government on its own, this time its tally did fall down to 158 from the 2004 figure of 185. YSR could well be ruling the state for a total of 10 years which could beat Chandrababu’s rule of 9 years prior to that. The TDP came second with 95 seats, clearly doubling its numbers from 2004 but just not enough numbers to come back in power.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) was reduced to a meagre 10 seats this time and in a way perhaps putting doubts about the formation of the Telangana State.
The Congress got past the magic figure of 148 but had to face embarassment of quite a few Ministers and also Speaker KR Suresh Reddy losing the elections! The State Congress No.2 D.Srinivas also was embarassed in his Nizamabad (Urban) constituency. The Elections saw the maiden entry of Chiranjeevi into the Assembly, the PRP founder won from Tirupati but had to face defeat in Palacole!
Here is the breakdown of the seats won out of the 294 Assembly Seats by the various parties :
- Indian National Congress (INC) – 157
- Telugu Desam Party (TDP) – 91
- Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) – 18
- Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) – 10
- Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) – 07
- Communist Party of India (CPI) – 04
- Independents – 03
- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – 02
- Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) – 01
- Lok Satta – 01
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