Congress candidate V Naveen Yadav on Friday won the Jubilee Hills by-election in Telangana with a margin of 24,729 votes against the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) contestant Maganti Sunitha Gopinath.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) declared the results after ten rounds of counting. The Jubilee Hills seat, located in the state capital of Hyderabad, witnessed a direct contest between the Congress and the BRS.
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Deepak Reddy Lankala, who received 17,061 votes, finished third.
Maganti Sunitha Gopinath is the wife of the late Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Maganti Gopinath, whose sudden death in June necessitated the by-election. The Jubilee Hills constituency recorded a low turnout during the polling held on November 11, with only 48.42 per cent of the total 4.01 lakh voters exercising their franchise.
The counting for by-elections commenced at 8 am, alongside the Bihar Assembly elections. Bypolls were conducted in constituencies across several states, including Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam and Nagrota, Mizoram’s Dampa, Rajasthan’s Anta, Jharkhand’s Ghatshila, Telangana’s Jubilee Hills, Odisha’s Nuapada and Punjab’s Tarn Taran.
In Rajasthan, Pramod Jain Bhaya of the Congress won the Anta Assembly by-election, which was a triangular contest against the BJP's Morpal Suman and Independent candidate Naresh Meena.
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