Telangana Elections History Induces Confidence in Mahakutami

Telangana is going to elections on December 7th and the results will be out on 11th. The elections were necessitated after KCR dissolved the State Assembly the last month. TRS has already announced 105 candidates out of the total 119 constituencies of the state and is already in the forefront in the campaigning while not even one party in the opposition announced any candidate.

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While there are speculations that the election can be one-sided towards TRS, history says the exact opposite. Any party in Telangana rarely got a clean majority as in the past. Even in 2014, the elections followed after the state bifurcation, TRS barely managed to scrape through.

Except for the freak election of 1994 in the aftermath of Babri and congress deserted by Muslims, no party won Telangana conclusively since 1983. Congress and its allies in Mahakutami will be taking solace from this piece of history and they will be hoping that things do not change at least for this time.

One more interesting observation is that none of the parties that stood first saw an improvement on their tally in the following elections. Even the YSR’s congress of 2009 saw tally go down by One seat and TDP improving from 9 to 40. Anti-incumbency usually very high historically in Telangana.