On May 5,2014, we came with the forecast of Telangana elections and gave these figures for Lok Sabha contest in Telangana. We posted in this story the details and reasons behind the figures. Broadly, here is what we forecasted for the number of seats. While we forecasted the LS seats for all parties, we limited the Assembly forecast to 2 main parties TRS and Congress. Here are the details. Lok Sabha: INC 2 , TRS 10, BJP 2, TDP 1, MIM 1, YSRCP 1. Assembly: TRS: 65 INC: 20-30 We almost got everything right but for the 1 seat BJP lost to TRS. TRS eventually got 11 and BJP was limited to 1. We thank all the guys who gave ...

In a repeat of earlier instances, TRS paid dearly due to EC’s negligence in allotting Symbols for contesting independents. An unknown independent with Auto symbol in Nagarkurnool, Buddula Srinivas got 54680 in Nagarkurnool election. Most of these votes were intended for the TRS Car symbol. Due to close similarity, TRS candidate Manda Jagannadam lost these votes and got defeated by Congress candidate Nandi Yellaiah by over 16000 votes! This seat which was considered easy for TRS was lost giving a shock to observers. In fact, the independent got more votes than even the YSRCP candidate who got over 22985 votes. This is not the first time this happened with TRS. Hope EC will be careful in future or otherwise the ...

Jayaprakash Narayan’s Lok Satta Party collapsed stunningly in Andhra and Telangana regions going by the data released by election commission. Among 15 political parties that competed, Lok Satta Party stood 12th in terms of vote share in all the assembly constituencies put together in Andhra and Telangana. The data reveals that even an aborted campaign of Jai Samaikyandra Party fetched it more votes than LSP. In fact, parties like BSP, which do not command much presence in AP, scored more than double the votes of LSP! One more interesting fact is that LSP managed lesser votes than even the number of NOTA votes polled in AP. The results raises questions on the agenda of LSP and the commitment of it’s ...

Breaking the myth that it is nowhere in the reckoning in the country’s largest constituency, Malkajgiri, TRS stormed the constituency in this election and almost made it getting past YSRCP, LSP and Congress. It fell short by just 1.78% votes which is around 28000 votes and lost to the TDP-BJP alliance candidate Malla Reddy. Malla Reddy got 32.3% while Mynampally got 30.52%. Considering that TRS fought alone while TDP aligned with BJP and Congress with CPI, one can imagine the promise this constituency holds for TRS in future elections. In line with that reality, TRS defeated the TDP/BJP alliance candidates in Malkajgiri and Medchal Assembly segments while it lost the Secunderabad cantonment by just 3000 votes. It ended up in ...

Intellectual Jayaprakash Narayan fell short of 1,10,000 votes to secure his deposit and lost it. Far from being the front runner, JP just managed to beat YSRCP’s Dinesh Reddy and end up in 4th position in Malkajgiri Lok Sabha with 1,58,000 votes. 2,70,000 votes, which is 1/6 of total votes polled, are required to secure deposit in Malkajgiri. TDP’s Malla Reddy got 5,23,336 votes compared to TRS candidate’s 4,94,965 and won in a close contest by over 28,000 votes. JP was nowhere near the top candidates in any of the 7 assembly segments. JP’s unethical strategy to attract BJP votes for his own victory at the cost of LSP’s assembly contestants in 7 assembly segments of Malkajgiri Lok Sabha worked ...