The Telangana Rashtra Samithi is poised to make a clean sweep of all the 11 assembly seats it contested, while its electoral ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has won the lone seat it had fielded its candidate for.
As at 2pm on Friday, the TRS-BJP combine has swept all the 7 seats for which results have been declared so far, and is leading in 5 constituencies for which counting of votes is still in progress.
Hopes of Pradesh Congress president D Srinivas to make a comeback to the state assembly suffered a major blow when he was declared defeated by BJP candidate Lakshminarayana from the Nizamabad Urban seat.
This is Lakshminarayana's second victory over the PCC president within 14 months. The results leave DS, who had hoped to become the deputy CM if he won, in political wilderness once again.
The first result to be declared in the morning was that of the Siddipet constituency which TRS candidate Harish Rao won with a record majority of 95,858 votes. The result left his opponents forfeiting their security deposits.
TRS candidates Gaddam Aravind Reddy won from Mancherial, Kaveti Sammaiah from Sirpur, Harish Rao from Siddipet, Koppula Eshwar from Dharmapuri, Nallala Odelu from Chennur and Chennamaneni Ramesh from Vemulawada, while the BJP's Lakshminarayana retained his seat from Nizamabad Urban constituencies.