MLC Elections Results Live Updates: YSRCP leads in Srikakulam, West Godavari

The counting exercise of MLC votes begins in Vishakapatnam

Visakhapatnam: Amid tight security, MLC votes counting exercise begins at Swarna Bharathi Indoor Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Thursday.

Even ass the MLC votes counting exercise begins in the constituencies as scheduled, the Andhra Pradesh High Court has issued an interim order mentioning the results, especially for North Andhra region, would be subject to its final order.

The decision comes into effect followed by an advocate Srinivasa Rao filing a petition stating that while the MLC polling was held on March 13, no holiday was declared courts in three districts of North Andhra. Hence, he added that lawyers, petitioners and court staff could not participate in the voting.

Taking a note, the court posted the next hearing of the case after four weeks.

Hyderabad-Mahabubnagar-RR Teacher's Constituency - Counting begins

The counting for the Mahabubnagar-Rangareddy-Hyderabad Teacher's council seat has began and likely to complete by evening.

The counting process which was to start at 8 am was delayed by 25 minutes.

The counting is taking place in the Saroornagar indoor stadium. The authorities have arranged

28 tables for counting. There will be one supervisor and observer for each table.

The counting staff are arranging each bundle with 100 votes.

Result may take more time since there are 21 candidates. Police have imposed section 144 in the premises.

The first preferential votes will be taken into consideration and if any candidate gets more than 50 per cent first preferential votes, he would be declared winner and if no candidate gets over 50 per cent votes the second preferential votes would be counted.

The election was held on March 13 where there were 21 candidates in the fray in the election and a total of 29,720 teachers were registered voters. The results are likely to come by evening.

The ruling BRS stayed away from contesting the election and supported G Chenna Keshav Reddy, who is also backed by the Progressive Recognised Teachers Union-TS (PRTU-TS). The BJP has declared support to A Venkata Narayan Reddy, while the Congress has extended support to Gali Harshavardhan Reddy. Janardhan Reddy, who won the teachers' constituency in 2017 is retiring was contesting as a rebel candidate from PRTUTS as Independent and Manik Reddy is also in the fray as independent with the support of United Teachers' Federation.

The results of local MLC elections in West Godavari district have been released where YSRCP candidates won both the MLC seats. There are 1105 votes in total. 1088 local representatives voted. Kavuru Srinivasu from YSRCP got 481 first preference votes. Vanka Rabindranath got 460 votes. Independent candidate Veeravalli Chandrasekhar got 120 votes.

Meanwhile, YSRCP candidate Nartu Rama Rao has bagged a victory under local body MLC election quota from Srikakulam. A total of 752 representatives of local bodies voted in this election while Rama Rao got 632 votes, Anepu Ramakrishna, who stood as an independent candidate, got 108 votes, 12 votes were invalid.