South India Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 Highlights: If exit polls are to be believed, regional parties in these states are set to maintain dominance in the south.
South India election results 2019 Highlights: Trends are in from the southern states; the DMK appears to be sweeping Tamil Nadu, while the Congress-led UDF may be headed for a landslide victory in Kerala. In Karnataka, the BJP is surging ahead, while in Telangana, TRS is leading in 9 seats and the BJP in four. In Andhra Pradesh, the YSRC Party is up in 24 seats of the state’s 25 seats.
As the Lok Sabha election results are announced we take a closer look at what’s happening in the southern five states and one Union Territory. These six combined send 130, or nearly one-fourth the number of MPs to the 543-member Lok Sabha.
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DMK leader Kanimozhi, daughter of the late party patriarch M Karunadhi won the Thoothukudi Lok Sabha constituency by defeating her BJP rival by more than three lakh votes. Kanimozhi trounced BJP leader and Tamil Nadu unit President Tamilisai Soundararajan by a margin of 3.47 lakh votes. Kanimozhi is also the sister of DMK Chief M K Stalin, currently a Rajya Sabha MP, and was the party's eyes and ears in New Delhi.
YSR Congress president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has won the Pulivendula Assembly seat by a record margin of 90,110 votes, the Election Commission has declared. Jagan secured 1,32,356 of the total 1,80,127 votes polled. He defeated Telugu Desam's S V Satish Kumar Reddy who secured 42,246 votes. When he was first elected to the state Assembly in 2014, Jagan won the Pulivendula seat -- his home turf in Kadapa district -- by a record margin then of 74,256 votes. On both the occasions, it was the highest victory margin secured by any candidate in state elections in Andhra Pradesh. Jagan's YSRC has won 120 Assembly seats out of the total 175 and is heading towards victory in 30 more seats.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's daughter K Kavitha was defeated by the BJP in Nizamabad constituency.
Rajinikanth congratulated DMK chief MK Stalin for his party's victory in the Parliamentary polls.
In Telangana, the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) won five Lok Sabha seats, the BJP won two seats and the Congress won one seat out of the nine results declared till now.
Karnataka BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa thanked the people of Karnataka for creating history by casting a record 54% votes to the BJP. The party said that it would "wait" and see how the ruling coalition partners, Congress and JD(S) would spar in public.
Congress-led UDF won 11 out of 20 seats in Kerala. CPI(M) led LDF was only leading in one seat, Alapuzha.
Following is the list of winning candidates from the state:
1. Kasaragod - Rajmohan Unnithan (UDF)
2. Kannur - K Sudhakaran (UDF)
3. Wayanad - Rahul Gandhi (UDF)
4. Malappuram - PK Kunhalikutty (UDF)
5. Ponnani - ET Muhammad Basheer (UDF)
6. Kozhikode - MK Raghavan (UDF)
7. Vadakara - K Muraleedharan (UDF)
8. Palakkad - VK Sreekandan (UDF)
8. Alathur - Remya Haridas (UDF)
9. Thrissur - TN Prathapa (UDF)
10. Chalakkudy - Benny Behanan (UDF)
11. Ernakulam - Hibi Eden (UDF)
12. Alappuzha - AM Arif (LDF)
13. Kottayam - Thomas Chazhikadan (UDF)
14. Idukki - Dean Kuriakose (UDF)
15. Pathanamthitta - Anto Antony (UDF)
16. Mavelikkara - Kodikunnil Suresh (UDF)
17. Kollam - NK Premachandran (UDF)
18. Attingal - Adoor Prakash (UDF)
19. Thiruvananthapuram - Shashi Tharoor (UDF)
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi won the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat for the fourth consecutive term
In Erode, Ganeshamurthi A of DMK defeated AIADMK's Manimaran G by 210618 votes.
Raja A of DMK has won from Nilgiris constituency.
DMK's Annadurai CN in Tiruvannamalai defeated Agri Krishnamurthy SS from AIADMK
Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge defeated by BJP's Umesh Jadhav in Karnataka's Gulbarga. The Election Commission stated that Jadhav won by a margin of 95,452 votes.
With the YSR Congress all set to wrest power in Andhra Pradesh, its Legislature Party will meet here on Saturday to formally elect Jaganmohan Reddy as its leader, who will be sworn-in as Chief Minister on May 30 at Vijayawada.
Reddy told PTI that he would take oath at Vijayawada on May 30 and promised to bring in a governance that the country would stand up and look to.Earlier, party sources had said the swearing-in would be
held at Tirupati on May 30.
DMK chief M K Stalin addresses the press in Chennai. He says, "The official results are yet to come. But in the Lok Sabha and by-poll elections, we have won by a great margin. I thank the people of Tamil Nadu and DMK's cadre who worked hard to make this victory possible. I was worried, because this is the first election we are facing without our beloved leader Kalaignar. Before the results, I took a pledge that If we win in these elections, I will dedicate that victory to our leader and it has come true today."
The Minister of State for Tourism was defeated by Congress-led UDF candidate Hibi Eden, who is also a sitting MLA, in Ernakulam constituency. Eden won by a margin of over 1.6 lakh votes against his nearest rival P Rajeev of CPI(M).
Even veteran Congress leaders in Lok Sabha including the likes of Mallikarjun Kharge in Gulbarga, former union minister Veerappa Moily and former PM and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda in Tumkur have lost the elections. Kharge, a Congressman who has never tasted electoral defeat, was trailing by more than 70,000 votes against BJP's Umesh Jadhav, who resigned as MLA and joined the saffron party ahead of the elections.
DMK chief M K Stalin addresses the press in Chennai. He says, "The official results are yet to come. But in the Lok Sabha and by-poll elections, we have won by a great margin. I thank the people of Tamil Nadu and DMK's cadre who worked hard to make this victory possible. I was worried, because this is the first election we are facing without our beloved leader Kalaignar. Before the results, I took a pledge that If we win in these elections, I will dedicate that victory to our leader and it has come true today."
V Vaithilingam secured more than 3 lakh votes while his nearest rival Narayanasamy Kesavan of AINRC has polled nearly 2 lakh votes, according to the Election Commission. Congress is part of the DMK led alliance while AINRC is an ally of the BJP.
Telangana would be the next state after Karnataka in the south with potential growth prospects for the party, state BJP president K Laxman said Thursday."In the south, after Karnataka, the fertile place for BJP is going to be Telangana," he told reporters. Laxman was jubilant over the party's surprise leads in four Lok Sabha seats -- Adilabad, Karimnagar, Secunderabad and Nizamabad -- in the state.
Bangalore voted for the BJP in a big way. In Bangalore South, Tejaswi Surya, the 28-year-old lawyer who was selected as the party candidate for the constituency despite opposition from various party quarters, was leading with a majority of more than 3.2 lakh votes.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi has conceded defeat in Amethi, but is set to enter the Lok Sabha after winning the Wayanad constituency in Kerala. Gandhi, who addressed a press conference this evening, congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the NDA for its victory. He said the party will continue to fight its ideological battle against the BJP. When probed on his position in the Congress, Gandhi said the Congress Working Committee would meet and chalk out a path for the party.
The results have dashed the hopes of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who was trying to cobble a Third Front in the elections and play a larger national role. In the 2014 election results, the TRS had bagged 11 seats while the Congress won two; TDP, YSR Congress, BJP and MIM got one each. Read more here
Congress' Rizwan Arshad is trailing from Bangalore Central. BJP's P C Mohan has taken the lead with 602,877 votes. Independent Prakash Raj, who polled only nearly 29,000 votes called it a solid slap on his face.
Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka CM M Veerappa Moily was defeated by BJP's B N Bache Gowda in Chikkaballapur by a margin of 1,82,110 votes, the Election Commission said on Thursday. While Gowda secured 7,45,912 votes, Moily got 5,63,802 votes.
Moily, a former union minister, was the joint candidate of the ruling Congress-JDS coalition. Gowda had lost against Moily in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls by a narrow margin of about 9,500 votes.
With 185 candidates contesting the Nizamabad seat, including 175 angry turmeric farmers who filed their nominations to draw attention to their plight, the Election Commission had to go back to ballot boxes. EVMs cannot compute so many candidates! This is the first time since 1996 that ballot papers are being used in the state.
At around 5:30 pm, Prakash Raj got around 28,000 votes while his rivals P C Mohan and Rizwan Arshad had gained more than 5 lakh votes each. In Bangalore central, he ran an enthusiastic and vigorous campaign but was not seen in political circles as a serious contender.
During the elections, a photograph of a shake-hand between Prakash Raj and Rizwan had gone viral on social media platforms, which was captioned, ‘Prakash Raj supports Congress. Don’t waste your vote by giving it to Prakash Raj.’ Later, Prakash Raj slammed these fake posts of him backing the Congress, but it could not stop the campaign. Read Prakash Raj's interview to Indian Express
Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy says the results of the Lok Sabha elections are unexpected, but the party respects the mandate of the people. Taking to Twitter, he congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for emerging victorious for the second time.
Congress candidate from Sivaganga and former Union minister P Chidamvaram's son Karti was leading BJP's H Raja by more than 2 lakh votes. In the last Lok Sabha elections, the seat was won by Senthilnathan Pr of the ADMK by a margin of 229385 votes. Senthilnathan Pr defeated DMK candidate Dhurai Raaj Subha.
Here are the latest figures from Telangana. The TRS is leading in nine seats, while the BJP is ahead in four. The Congress, meanwhile, is up in three seats, while AIMIM is ahead in one.
Union Minister Ananthkumar Hegde has won from the Uttara Kannada seat in Karnataka. He has defeated JD(S) candidate Anand Asnotikar by 4,79,649 votes.
Kotha Prabhakar Reddy (Medak) and Dayakar Pusunoori (Warangal) of TRS are leading in their respective constituencies by 3.11 lakh and 3.45 lakh votes, respectively, as per the latest trends.
Independent candidate Sumalatha leads by over one lakh votes in Mandya constituency. She is contesting the polls against Nikhil Kumaraswamy, the son of Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy.
BJP leader B S Yeddyurappa, who is holding a press conference, says he will see what the JD(S)-Congress will do before deciding his next course of action. He added that he is going travelling to Delhi on Friday to meet the high command and decide the next course of action in the state. He hints that PM Modi will be sworn in on May 26.
Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has conceded defeat in Gulbarga. Speaking to news agency ANI, he said, "We are accepting the verdict people have given us We believe in democracy. We will discuss how to correct our mistakes and how to strengthen the party."
The CPI today said BJP's poll narrative centred on nationalism worked for the party in a big way in the Lok Sabha elections. "I think it looks like nationalism worked for them in northern states and Karnataka," CPI General Secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy told PTI commenting on the Lok Sabha poll outcome. "Nationalism worked (for the BJP)... points raised by opposition unemployment, price rise, and ommissions and commissions of the BJP did not stand before the nationalism, particularly northern states," he said.
Ramesh Chennithala, the Leader of Opposition, has demanded Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's resignation after the LDF rout across Kerala. He has asked the CM to meet the Governor and hand in his resignation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy for his massive victory in Andhra Pradesh. The YSR Congress Party chief is all set to take over as CM of Andhra Pradesh.
Telangana Rashtra Samiti's Nama Nageswr Rao is currently leading with 1.56 lakh votes over his Congress rival Renuka Chowdhury.
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who seemed headed for a win from Thiruvananthapuram, said he feels like a batsman who has scored a century while his team has lost. Read more here.
It is a humiliating defeat for TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu as his party was reduced to 20-23 Assembly seats and may draw a nil in Lok Sabha seats. A strong anti-incumbency wave which even the YSRCP did not anticipate catapulted Jagan to power. What does this mean for Naidu's TDP? Express reporter Sreenivas Janyala explains.
AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi was ahead in Hyderabad seat, where he is seeking reelection for the fourth successive time, according to Election Commission sources. Owaisi was leading by 1.47 lakh votes over his BJP rival Bhagavanth Rao.
Jana Sena founder and film star Pawan Kalyan is trailing in the Bhimavaram and Gajuwaka segments he contested.
Here are the latest trends from Kerala, a state where the Congress-led UDF is set for a sweeping win. In Thiruvananthapuram, incumbent Shashi Tharoor has a lead of 51,000 votes over the BJP candidate Kummanam Rajasekharan. In Pathanamthitta, Congress sitting MP Anto Antony set for re-election with a lead of 44,000+ votes; the BJP candidate is in third place. In Thrissur, a seat where the BJP had high prospects, it's actor-Rajya Sabha MP Suresh Gopi is trailing in third place. Congress candidate TN Prathapan is ahead by 91,000+ votes. In Kannur, a stronghold of the LDF, it's candidate is trailing the winning Congress candidate by 84,000 votes. Sitting CPM MP PK Sreemathy is set to lose.
The BJP looks set to record its biggest victory in the only southern state it has ever breached, registering leads in 23 of Karnataka’s 28 Lok Sabha seats. The BJP juggernaut seems set to inflict defeats on Congress-JD(S) big guns such as H D Devegowda, Mallikarjun Kharge, Veerappa Moily and K H Muniyappa. What does this indicate for the JD(S)-Congress alliance? Read our explainer here.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the spectacular victory of BJP-led NDA in the Lok Sabha polls.He wished that the country march ahead under the leadership of Modi, a release from the Chief Minister's office said.Rao also hailed the victory of YSR Congress in the Assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh.
The DMK led alliance which included the Congress, CPI, CPI (M), Viduthalai Chiruthaikal (VCK) and a host of smaller parties have swept the state, and is of now leading in 36 of the 39 seats. In many of the seats they have crossed leads of more than one lakh votes. The resistance to the DMK sweep is coming not from the AIADMK but from places where PMK has a say. Read more here
The BJP appears to be making smart gains in Telangana leading in four Lok Sabha seats while ruling TRS was ahead in nine, much below its own expectations, as per official trends for all 17 segments in the state.
The Congress also appears to be on way to improving its performance, as the party's candidates have established leads in four seats, according to the information available at 1 PM Thursday.
Naidu’s anti-Modi stance appears to have backfired on him as the general pro-Modi wave translated into votes for Jagan who had strategically positioned himself—neither for nor against BJP. The Congress in AP failed to win even a single Assembly or LS seat for the second successive general elections. The BJP which won 3 LS and four Assembly seats in 2014 failed to open account this time.
Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy of YSR Congress Party is all set to take over as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. YSRCP was leading in 152 of the 175 Assembly and 24 of 25 Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh. It is a humiliating defeat for TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu as his party was reduced to 20-23 Assembly seats and may draw a nil in Lok Sabha seats. A strong anti-incumbency wave which even the YSRCP did not anticipate catapulted Jagan to power.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi is leading by a massive 4.5 lakh votes in Wayanad. In Vadakara, known as the "killing fields of north Kerala", Congress candidate Muraleedharan is leading with a margin of over 50,000 votes. Sitting Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor is leading over BJP's Kummanam Rajasekharan by over 30,000 votes. In Pathanamthitta, a seat which includes the Sabarimala shrine , sitting Congress MP Anto Antony is leading by over 34,000 votes.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edapaddi K Palaniswamy has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulating him for his "magnificent victory" in the Lok Sabha elections. "The people of our country have honoured you with a second consecutive term. I wish you and the Government of India under your stewardship the very best," he writes.
With his YSR Congress heading for a landslide victory in the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh, party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy Thursday termed it as people's victory. He also said the YSRC's victory was expected. "I sincerely thank the people who overwhelmingly voted for YSRC and blessed it. I also thank them for exercising their franchise in large numbers and enhanced the value of democracy," Jaganmohan Reddy said in a Facebook post.
"I will live up to the expectations of the people," he promised.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is leading by a massive margin in Wayanad in Kerala. In his constituency of Amethi, however, he is trailing by some 3,000 votes against BJP's Smriti Irani.
In Chidambaram constituency, VCK Chief Thol Thirumavalavan and AIADMK's Chandrasekar are battling it out. Chandrasekar is leading by a margin of 2,091 votes. In the 2014 general elections, Thirumavalavan lost by a margin of just 87 votes.
V Vaithilingam of the Congress is leading with a margin of 1,69, 785 (57.5%) votes against Dr Narayanasamy Kesavan of AINRC.
YSRC is leading in all but one of the 25 Lok Sabha seats. Sitting TDP MP Kesineni Srinivas has a slender lead over YSRCP's Potluri V Prasad. Actor Balakrishna's son-in-law, Sri Bharat is trailing by 2612 votes in Visakhapatnam. Former aviation minister and TDP candidate Ashok Gajapathi Raju is also trailing by over 24,000 votes in Vizianagaram. Actor Mahesh Babu's brother-in-law and sitting TDP MP Jayadev Galla is trailing to YSRC candidate in Guntur by close to 7,000 votes. TDP stronghold Hindupur, which was once represented by late actor Harikrishna, is also likely to fall.
DNV Senthilkumar S of the DMK has taken the lead in Dharmapuri by a margin of 268 votes against Anbumani Ramadoss of PMK. In Chidambaram constituency, VCK Chief Thol Thirumavalavan and AIADMK's Chandrasekar are locked in a battle. Chandrasekar is leading with a margin of just 2091 votes.
Here are some trends from the state: In Wayanad, Rahul Gandhi is leading by 1.41 lakh votes; in Kannur, K Sudhakaran leads by 30,000 votes; in Vadakara, K Muraleedharan is ahead by 26,000 votes; in Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor is leading by 11,000 votes; In Ernakulam, Hibi Eden is ahead by 47,000 votes; in Pathanamthitta, Anto Antony leads by 30,000 votes.
The Congress office in Bengaluru wears a deserted look as the BJP leads in 23/28 seats. Here are some pictures.
Telangana CM KCR's daughter and sitting MP K Kavitha is trailing in Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency in Telangana. K Kavitha had recently said that the regional parties not aligned with the Congress and the BJP will get 120-plus seats in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, and may hold the key to government formation.