Gajwel Constituency Election Result 2023: Telangana’s former Chief Minister Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, popularly referred to as KCR, has won from the Gajwel seat in Telangana defeating his nearest rival and BJP leader Eatala Rajender by over 45,000 votes. KCR polled 1,11,684 votes and Rajender gathered 66,653 votes. Congress candidate Thookunta Narsa Reddy came third securing 32,568 votes. The results were declared after the completion of 25 rounds of counting. Counting for the Gajwel Assembly seat in Telangana began at 8 AM on Sunday. Elections to the 119 seats of Telangana took place on November 30.
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The Gajwel Assembly constituency is a part of the Medak Lok Sabha/Parliamentary constituency. This constituency is represented by KCR, who had won the Gajwel seat in the 2014 and 2018 Assembly polls. In 2014, he won with 44.06 per cent of the vote share with a 19,391 vote margin. In 2018, he polled 1.25 lakh votes or 60.45 per cent of the vote share, defeating his nearest rival by more than 58,000 votes.
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Telangana Election 2023 Gajwel Assembly Results Highlights: Former Chief Minister and BRS leader Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, popularly referred to as KCR, has won from the Gajwel seat defeating his nearest rival and BJP leader Eatala Rajender by over 45,000 votes.
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KCR wins from Gajwel constituency in Telangana.
As per ECI data at 3.01 PM, KCR is leading by 11,714 votes. BJP's Eatala Rajendar has polled 24,983 votes, while KCR has polled 36,697 votes. KCR is contesting from two constituencies - Gajwel and Kamareddy.
Incumbent Chief Minister and the founder of BRS, K Chandrashekar Rao, is contesting from two seats: his original seat, Gajwel, and Kamareddy. In the 2018 elections, KCR secured a victory in Gajwel by over 58,000 votes defeating Vanteru Pratap Reddy of Congress. Reddy was KCR’s rival in 2014 as well and lost by about 20,000 votes. Meanwhile, the BJP has fielded former minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker Etela Rajender and Thumkunta Narsa Reddy is the Congress candidate. Read more.
Former minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker Eatala Rajender is taking on KCR at Gajwel, while fighting for retaining his actual seat at Huzurabad. He is among the three candidates who are fighting on three seats in the Telangana elections 2023. After Rajender was shunted out of the BRS (then TRS) in June 2021, Kaushik Reddy joined the BJP. In Huzurabad, the BRS has fielded Rajender’s arch rival Padi Kaushik Reddy.
According to ECI data as of 11.22 AM, the latest trends show incumbent CM and BRS leader KCR leading in Gajwel constituency.
As counting of votes is underway, Congress has taken massive lead, comfortably crossing the magic figure of 60, according to early trends. BRS trailing.
BJP MLA Eatala Rajender is leading from The Gajwel constituency in Telangana, according to early trends. He is contesting against Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao from Gajwel.
In the 2018 Assembly election, BRS leader and CM KCR had won the seat, in 2014, he had won. In 2009 elections, Tumkunta Narsa Reddy had won the seat on Congress seat.
Counting in the Gajwel Assembly constituency in Telangana begins, amid tight security arrangements.
Incumbent Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao from the BRS is taking on Thumkunta Narsa Reddy from Congress. Eatala Rajender has been fielded by the BJP. KCR is seeking re-election from the seat. In 2018, he had polled 1,25,444 votes and 60.45 per cent vote share. Vanteru Pratap Reddy from the Congress had polled 67,154 votes. Akula Vijaya has polled 1,587 votes.
Gajwel assembly constituency is one of the 119 assembly constituencies in Telangana state. It is a General category assembly seat. It is situated in Medak district and is one of the 7 assembly segments of Medak Parliament Seat. In the 2018 Assembly elections, the voter turnout in the Gajwel constituency stood at 88.97 per cent.
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In the 2018 Telangana Assembly Elections for the Gajwel seat, KCR has emerged victorious from the constituency, securing 1,25,444 votes, defeating Congress candidate Vanteru Pratap Reddy by a margin of 58,290 votes while the BJP candidate Akula Vijaya secured only 1,587 votes. The 2018 Telangana elections saw BRS winning 88 seats, Congress had secured 19 seats, while the BJP bagged only one seat in the 2018 elections.