Atmakur by-election: YSRCP nominee leads by 12,863 votes after three rounds of counting
The Hindu
YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) candidate Mekapati Vikram Reddy polled 15,582 votes after three rounds of counting of votes polled in the June 23 by-election to Atmakur Assembly seat
YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) candidate Mekapati Vikram Reddy established a comfortable lead of 12,863 votes after three rounds of counting of votes polled in the June 23 by-election to Atmakur Assembly seat, amid tight security in SPSR Nellore district on Sunday.
The YSRCP candidate, brother of deceased sitting MLA and Industries and Information Technology Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy, polled 15,582 votes and his nearest Bharatiya Janata Party rival G. Bharat Kumar Yadav 2719 votes. Bahujan party candidate Obulesu got 485 votes.
The YSRCP nominee secured a lead of 5,337 votes in the first round. He improved the voting margin to 12,863 after two rounds.
The counting progressed on 14 tables at the Andhra Engineering college for counting of votes in 20 rounds starting with postal ballots under the supervision of District Collector and District Election Officer K.V.N. Chakradhar Babu and Superintendent of Police Ch. Vijaya Rao.
The YSRCP expected to win by a margin of more than one lakh votes in 20 rounds. The polling percentage had dropped in the byelection to 64.26% of the 2.13 lakh voters in the by-election as against 82.44% in 2019 giving anxious moments over the victory margin.
Goutham Reddy had won the seat by a margin of over 22,000 votes in 2019 and more than 31,000 votes in 2014.
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