TIRUPATI: Brushing aside expectations that, the winner can only manage a narrow margin for the Tirupati Assembly constituency, YSRC contestant Bhumana Karunakar Reddy emerged victorious with a huge margin of 17,975 against his Congress rival M Venkataramana.Though the margin looks small compared to other constituencies, it is massive compared to number of votes polled in the constituency.Tirupati recorded the lowest voting percentage, 54.69 percent, among the 18 constituencies.
It is also bigger when compared to the margin of actor-turned-politician K Chiranjeevi, who had defeated the same Karunakar Reddy during the 2009 general elections, with a margin of over 15,000 votes.Though tension gripped the counting hall when Venkataramana started with a majority of 16 votes in first round and gave a fight in second, wherein the YSRC candidate went to a majority of 117 votes.After that tension mood was off with the margin of YSRC candidate swelling from the third round to the last round (19th).
While, Reddy got 59,195 votes, the Congress nominee got 41,220 votes.The TDP candidate Chadalawada Krishnamurty was confined to the third place after securing 30,453 votes.Despite losing deposits, CPM candidate K Murali and BJP candidate J Madhusudhan also secured sizable votes by getting 2,372 and 1,103 votes respectively.The announcement of the results went on at a snail's pace.The final result was announced after 4:30 pm, with the poll observer personally monitoring all the calculations round-by-round, after he found some errors in the beginning of the counting process.
It is also bigger when compared to the margin of actor-turned-politician K Chiranjeevi, who had defeated the same Karunakar Reddy during the 2009 general elections, with a margin of over 15,000 votes.Though tension gripped the counting hall when Venkataramana started with a majority of 16 votes in first round and gave a fight in second, wherein the YSRC candidate went to a majority of 117 votes.After that tension mood was off with the margin of YSRC candidate swelling from the third round to the last round (19th).
While, Reddy got 59,195 votes, the Congress nominee got 41,220 votes.The TDP candidate Chadalawada Krishnamurty was confined to the third place after securing 30,453 votes.Despite losing deposits, CPM candidate K Murali and BJP candidate J Madhusudhan also secured sizable votes by getting 2,372 and 1,103 votes respectively.The announcement of the results went on at a snail's pace.The final result was announced after 4:30 pm, with the poll observer personally monitoring all the calculations round-by-round, after he found some errors in the beginning of the counting process.
