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. Key contenders included the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Indian National Congress (INC), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Telugu Desam Party (TDP).
A 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.
Background The chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao called for an early election, when he resigned on 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 Assembly 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. 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. There were around 2,600+ transgender people in the voters list.
+ 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.
Poll eventDate Start of nomination 12 November 2018 Last date for filing nomination 19 November 2018 Scrutiny of nomination 20 November 2018 Last date for withdrawal of nomination 22 November 2018 Date of poll 7 December 2018 Date of counting of votes 11 December 2018 Date of the election being completed 13 December 2018
Parties and alliances
Alliance/Party Flag Symbol LeaderSeats contestedTelangana Rashtra Samithi K. Chandrashekhar Rao119Praja KutamiIndian National Congress N. Uttam Kumar Reddy 95+4115+4Telugu Desam Party L. Ramana 13Telangana Jana Samithi M. Kodandaram 4+4Communist Party of India Chada Venkat Reddy 3Bharatiya Janata Party K. Laxman118Bahujan Samaj PartyMayawati106Communist Party of India (Marxist) Tammineni Veerabhadram26All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Akbaruddin Owaisi8
Candidates District ConstituencyTRSPraja KutamiBJP # Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party CandidateAdilabad1SirpurKoneru KonappaPalvai Harish BabuKottapelli Srinivas2Chennur (SC)Balka SumanVenkatesh Netha BorlakuntaSrinivas Andugula 3Bellampalli (SC)Durgam ChinnaiahGunda MalleshKoyyala Emaji4MancherialNadipelli Diwakar RaoKokkirala Premsagar RaoRaghunath Verabelli 5Asifabad (ST)Kova LaxmiAtram SakkuAzmera Athma RaoKotnaka Vijay Kumar6Khanapur (ST)Ajmeera RekhaRamesh RathodAshok Satla Thatra Bheem Rao7AdilabadJogu RamannaGandrath SujathaPayal Shankar8Boath (ST)Rathod Bapu RaoSoyam Bapu RaoMadavi Raju9NirmalAllola Indrakaran ReddyAlleti Maheshwar ReddyAindla Swarna Reddy10MudholeGaddigari Vittal ReddyRama Rao PawarPadakanti RamadeviNizamabad11ArmurAsannagari Jeevan ReddyAkula LalithaVinay Kumar Reddy Prodduturi12BodhanShakil Aamir MohammedP. Sudarshan ReddySrinivas Aljapur 13Jukkal (SC)Hanmanth ShindeGangaram SoudagarT. Aruna Thara14BanswadaPocharam Srinivas ReddyKasula BalarajuPrakash Naidu15YellareddyEanugu Ravinder ReddyJajala SurenderBanala Laxma Reddy16KamareddyGampa GovardhanMohammed Ali ShabbirK. V. Ramana Reddy17Nizamabad (Urban)Bigala GaneshTaher Bin HamdanEndela Lakshminarayana18Nizamabad (Rural)Bajireddy GoverdhanRekulapally Bhoopathi ReddyAnand Reddy Gaddam19BalkondaVemula Prashanth ReddyAnil Kumar EravathriRuyyadi RajeshwarKarimnagar20KoratlaKalvakuntla Vidya Sagar RaoJuvvadi Narsinga RaoJ. N. Venkat21JagtialM. Sanjay KumarT. Jeevan ReddyRavinder Reddy Muduganti22Dharmapuri (SC)Koppula EshwarAdluri Laxman KumarAnjaiah Kannam 23RamagundamSomarapu SatyanarayanaMakkan Singh Raj ThakurVanitha Balmuri 24ManthaniPutta MadhukarD. Sridhar BabuRendla Sanath Kumar25PeddapalleDasari Manohar ReddyChinthakunta Vijaya Ramana RaoGujjula Ramakrishna Reddy26KarimnagarGangula KamalakarPonnam PrabhakarBandi Sanjay Kumar27Choppadandi (SC)Sunke Ravi ShankarMedipally SathyamBodige Shobha28VemulawadaChennamaneni RameshAadi SrinivasPratapa Ramakrishan29SircillaK. T. Rama RaoKondam Karuna Mahender ReddyMallugari Narsa Goud30Manakondur (SC)Rasamayi BalakishanArepally MohanGaddam Nagaraju31HuzurabadEtela RajenderKaushik ReddyRaghu Puppala 32HusnabadChada Venkat ReddySrinivasa Chada ReddyMedak33SiddipetT. Harish RaoMarikanti BhavaniNaini Narotham Reddy34MedakPadma Devender ReddyAmmareddy Gari Upender ReddyDid not contest35NarayankhedMahareddy Bhupal ReddyShetkar Suresh KumarPatlolla Sanjeeva Reddy36Andole (SC)Chanti Kranthi KiranDamodar Raja NarasimhaBabu Mohan37NarsapurChilumula Madan ReddyVakiti Sunitha Laxma ReddyGopi Singayapalli 38Zahirabad (SC)Koninty Manik RaoJ. Geeta ReddyGopi Jangam 39SangareddyChinta PrabhakarJagga ReddyRajeshwar Deshpande Rao40PatancheruGudem Mahipal ReddyP. Karunakar Reddy 41DubbakSolipeta Ramalinga ReddyMaddula Nageshwar ReddyRaghunandan RaoChindam Rajkumar42GajwelK. Chandrashekar RaoVanteru Pratap ReddyVijaya Akula Ranga Reddy43MedchalMalla ReddyKicchannagari Laxma ReddyPeddi Mohan Reddy44MalkajgiriMynampally Hanumanth RaoKapilavai Dileep KumarN. Ramchander Rao45QuthbullapurK. P. Vivekanand GoudKuna Srisailam GoudKasani Veeresh46KukatpallyMadhavaram Krishna RaoNandamuri Venkata SuhasiniMadhavaram Kantha Rao47UppalN. V. S. S. Prabhakar48IbrahimpatnamManchireddy Kishan ReddySama Ranga ReddyKotha Ashok49Lal Bahadur NagarMudda Gowni Ram Mohan GoudDevireddy Sudheer ReddyPerala Shekhar Rao50MaheshwaramTeegala Krishna ReddySabitha Indra ReddyAndela Sriramulu51RajendranagarT. Prakash GoudGanesh RenukuntlaBaddam Bal Reddy52SerilingampallyArekapudi GandhiV. Ananda PrasadGajjala Yoganand53Chevella (SC)Kale YadaiahKanjarla Prakash54PargiK. Mahesh ReddyT. Ram Mohan ReddyK. Prahalad Rao55Vikarabad (SC)Gaddam Prasad KumarRaipally Sai Krishna56TandurP. Mahender ReddyPilot Rohith ReddyPatel RavishankerHyderabad57MusheerabadMuta GopalM. Anil Kumar YadavK. Laxman58MalakpetC. Satish KumarMohammed Muzaffar Ali KhanAle Jeetendra59AmberpetKaleru VenkateshNijjana RameshG. Kishan Reddy60KhairatabadDanam NagenderDasoju Sravan KumarChintala Ramachandra Reddy61Jubilee HillsMaganti GopinathP. Vishnuvardhan ReddyRavula Sridhar Reddy62Sanath NagarTalasani Srinivas YadavKuna Venkatesh GoudBhawarlal Varma63NampalliCh. Anand Kumar GoudMohammed Feroz KhanDevara Karunakar64KarwanT. Jeevan SinghOsman Bin Mohammed Al HajriAmar Singh65GoshamahalPrem Singh RathoreMukesh GoudT. Raja Singh66CharminarMohammed Salahuddin LodhiMohammed GhouseT. Uma Mahendra67ChandrayanguttaM. Seetha Ram ReddyEsa MisriShahejadi Sayyad68YakutpuraSama Sunder ReddyK. Rajender RajuCh. Roopraj69BahadurpuraMir Inayath Ali BaqriShaik Mohd KaleemuddinHaneef Ali70SecunderabadT. Padma Rao GoudKasani Gnaneshwar MudirajBandapelly Satish71Secunderabad Cantt. (SC)G. SayannaSarve SatyanarayanaSri GaneshMahabubnagar72KodangalPatnam Narender ReddyRevanth ReddyNagurao Namaji73NarayanpetS. Rajender ReddyKrishna Saraf Bangaru BalappaK. Rathanga Pandu Reddy74MahbubnagarV. Srinivas GoudM. Chandra ShekarG. Padmaja Reddy75JadcherlaC. Laxma ReddyMallu RaviDr. Chinnala Madhusudhan76DevarkadraPavan KumarAggani Narsimulu77MakthalChittem Rammohan ReddyKondaiah78WanaparthySingireddy Niranjan ReddyG. Chinna ReddyKotha Amarendar Reddy79GadwalBandla Krishna Mohan ReddyD. K. ArunaG. Venkatadri Reddy80Alampur (SC)V. M. AbrahamB. Rajini81NagarkurnoolMarri Janardhan ReddyNagam Janardhan ReddyDileep Neddanori82Achampet (SC)Guvvala BalarajuChikkudu Vamshi KrishnaMedipur Malleshwar83KalwakurthyGurka Jaipal YadavChalla Vamshi Chand ReddyAchary Talloj84ShadnagarYelganamoni Anjaiah YadavChowlapally Pratap ReddyNelli Sreevardhan Reddy85KollapurJupally Krishna RaoBeeram Harshavardhan ReddyAelleni Sudhakar RaoNalgonda86Devarakonda (ST)Ramavath Ravindra KumarBalu NaikGopi @ Kalyan Naik87Nagarjuna SagarNomula Narsimhaiah YadavKunduru Jana ReddyKankanala Nivedita88MiryalgudaNallamothu Bhaskar RaoR. KrishnaiahKarnati Prabhakar89HuzurnagarShanampudi SaidireddyN. Uttam Kumar ReddyBobba Bhagya Reddy90KodadBollam Mallaiah YadavN. Padmavathi ReddyJallepalli Enkateshwarulu91SuryapetGuntakandla Jagadish ReddyRamreddy Damodar ReddySankineni Venkateswar Rao92NalgondaKomatireddy Venkat ReddySriramoju Shanmukha Chary93MunugodeKusukuntla Prabhakar ReddyKomatireddy Raj Gopal ReddyGangidi Manohar Reddy94BhongirPailla Shekar ReddyKumbam Anil Kumar ReddyDid not contest95Nakrekal (SC)Vemula VeereshamChirumarthi LingaiahKasarla Lingaiah96Thungathurthy (SC)Gadari KishoreAddanki DayakarRamachandraiah Kadiyam97AlairGongidi SuntihaBudida Bikshamaiah GoudDonthiri Sridhar ReddyWarangal98JangoanPonnala LakshmaiahK. V. L. N. Reddy (Raju)99Ghanpur Station (SC)T. RajaiahSingapuram Indira Perumandla Venkateshwarulu100PalakurthiErrabelli Dayakar RaoJanga Ragava ReddySomaiah Pedagani101Dornakal (ST)Dharamsoth Redya NaikJatoth Ram Chander NaikGugulothu Laxman Naik102Mahabubabad (ST)Banoth Shankar NayakBalram NaikJatothu Hussain103NarsampetDonthi Madhava ReddyAshok Reddy Edla104ParkalKonda SurekhaDr. Pesaru Vijaya Chander Reddy105Warangal WestDasyam Vinay BhaskerRevuri Prakash ReddyDharmarao Marthineni106Warangal EastVaddiraju RavichandraSatish KusumaInna Reddy Gade107Wardhanapet (SC)Aroori RameshDevaiah PagidipatiKotha Saranga Rao108BhupalpalleS. Madhusudhana CharyGandra Venkata Ramana ReddyChandupatla Keerthi Reddy109Mulug (ST)Azmeera ChandulalSeethakkaBanoth DevilalKhammam110Pinapaka (ST)Payam VenkateswarluSantosh Kumar Chanda111Yellandu (ST)Koram KanakaiahHaripriya BanothNaaga Sravanthi Mokalla112KhammamPuvvada Ajay KumarNama Nageswara RaoSarada Vuppala 113PalairThummala Nageswara RaoSridhar Kondapalli Reddy114Madhira (SC)Mallu Bhatti VikramarkaShyamala Kathula Rao115Wyra (ST)Banoth MadanlalVijaya Banoth Reshma Bai Bhukya 116Sathupalli (SC)Sandra Venkata VeeraiahNamburi Ramalingeswara Rao117KothagudemJalagam Venkat RaoVanama Venkateswara RaoByreddy Prabhakar Reddy118Aswaraopeta (ST)Mecha Nageswara RaoBhukya Prasada Rao119Bhadrachalam (ST)Tellam Venkata RaoPodem VeeraiahKunja Satyavathi
Results Vote share
Seat share
Results by party +Source: Election Commission of IndiaAlliance/Party Popular voteSeatsVotes%±ppContestedWon+/−Telangana Rashtra Samithi9,700,94846.87 12.5711988 25rowspan="5" Praja KutamiIndian National Congress5,883,08828.43 3.2395 + 419 2Telugu Desam Party725,7143.51 11.19132 13Telangana Jana Samithi95,3640.46 new4 + 40 newCommunist Party of India83,2150.40 0.5030 1Total6,787,38132.80N/A115 + 821N/ABharatiya Janata Party1,443,7996.98 0.121181 4All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen561,0912.71 1.0987Other parties1,303,9396.30N/A7821N/AIndependents673,6093.25 1.756751NOTA224,6611.09 0.29Total20,695,428100.00N/A1,821119N/AVote statisticsValid votes20,695,42899.97Invalid votes6,3550.03Votes cast/Turnout20,701,78373.74Abstentions7,374,12926.26Registered voters28,075,912
Results by district +DistrictSeatsTRSINCTDPMIMBJPOTHAdilabad10910000Nizamabad9810000Karimnagar131110001Medak10910000Ranga Reddy141130000Hyderabad15700710Mahbubnagar141310000Nalgonda12930000Warangal121020000Khammam10162001Total11988192 712
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