Telangana Election result 2018 live updates: Counting of votes begins

Telangana Election result 2018 LIVE updates: TRS leading in 22, Cong in 18

Votes in Telangana are being counted today. Track Telangana election result 2018 live updates to see if KCR's TRS will manage to return to power

BS Web Team  |  New Delhi 

Telangana state assembly election
Telangana Election result 2018: (Clock-wise from left) TRS chief Chandrashekar Rao, Congress leader Uttam Kumar Reddy and AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi

Telangana Assembly Election result 2018 LIVE: Counting of votes has begun in Telangana, where exit polls predict Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao's gambit of advancing state elections by six months will pay off and his party will return to power.

Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party is pitted against the Congress-led Praja Katumi alliance, which also comprises the Telugu Desam Party, the Communist Party of India and the newly formed Telangana Jana Samithi.


The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won five seats in the 2014 Assembly elections, held in undivided Andhra Pradesh, and is a marginal player in the state’s politics.

Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) is contesting in eight Assembly constituencies of Hyderabad and has announced its support to the TRS elsewhere in the state.

The state Assembly has 119 seats.

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Telangana Election result 2018 LIVE updates: TRS leading in 22, Cong in 18
Telangana Election result 2018 LIVE updates: TRS leading in 22, Cong in 18

We believe people of Telangana are with us, says TRS' K Kavitha K Kavitha, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MP: We believe people of Telangana are with us. We have sincerely worked and utilised the opportunity given to us. So I believe voters will bring us back to power, and that too independently. We are very confident about it. pic.twitter.com/fgY4EwfguZ — ANI (@ANI) December 11, 2018

Telangana Election result 2018 LIVE updates: TRS leading in 22, Cong in 18

TRS takes lead in early trends

Telangana Election result 2018 LIVE updates: TRS leading in 22, Cong in 18
Telangana Election result 2018 LIVE updates: TRS leading in 22, Cong in 18

Telangana result: 6/119   Trends   TRS: 4 BJP: 0 Congress: 2 Other: 0

Telangana Election result 2018 LIVE updates: TRS leading in 22, Cong in 18

Congress workers perform 'hawan' outside Rahul Gandhi's residence in Delhi #AssemblyElections2018 pic.twitter.com/zkuKfW9T2T — ANI (@ANI) December 11, 2018

Telangana Election result 2018 LIVE updates: TRS leading in 22, Cong in 18

Telangana result: 2/199   Trends   TRS: 1 BJP: 0 Congress: 1 Other: 0

Telangana Election result 2018 LIVE updates: TRS leading in 22, Cong in 18

Counting begins!

Telangana Election result 2018 LIVE updates: TRS leading in 22, Cong in 18

Option of supporting TRS in Telangana not closed, hints BJP   A day before the Telangana Assembly poll results, the BJP on Monday hinted that the option of extending support to the TRS in case it falls short of numbers is not closed, even as it expressed readiness to sit in the opposition.   BJP national spokesperson G V L Narasimha Rao noted that most of the exit polls point towards the TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samiti) retaining power in Telangana and they are likely to turn out to be right.

Telangana Election result 2018 LIVE updates: TRS leading in 22, Cong in 18

Telangana Election Result 2018   AIMIM contested eight seats in the December 7 Assembly elections as against the seven in 2014 polls, and supported the TRS.

Telangana Election result 2018 LIVE updates: TRS leading in 22, Cong in 18

TRS will form govt on its own, we support Chandrasekhar Rao: Owaisi   AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi Monday said TRS will form the next government in Telangana on its own strength and his party will stand by it and its chief K Chandrasekhar Rao. Owaisi said he will meet KCR (Rao) Monday afternoon adding this is "our first step towards a larger goal of nation building."   "I'll be meeting Telangana's caretaker & next CM of Telangana, KCR sahab @TelanganaCMO at 1:30 PM today. Inshallah he'll form government on his own strength, and Majlis will stand by him. This is our first step towards a larger goal of nation building," the Hyderabad MP tweeted....READ
First Published: Tue, December 11 2018. 07:15 IST