A Congress win will mean the BRS losing a member in the 119-member Telangana Legislative Assembly.
Published Nov 14, 2025 | 7:11 AM ⚊ Updated Nov 14, 2025 | 7:11 AM
From L-R: BJP candidate Lankala Deepak Reddy, Congress' Naveen Yadav, BRS' Maganti Sunitha. Credit: x.com/LDR4BJP, www.facebook.com/PingNaveenYadav, x.com/magantigopimla
The result of the Jubilee Hills by-election will boost the confidence of the winning party to go full steam ahead in the upcoming, much-delayed polls to the local self-government bodies in Telangana. A confident Congress has already termed the bypoll a referendum on the A Revanth Reddy-led government. Adding to the Congress’s confidence are exit poll results that predicted a narrow win for the more than a century-old party.
A Congress win will mean the BRS losing a member in the 119-member Telangana Legislative Assembly. The by-election was necessitated by the demise of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath on 8 June 2025.
The BRS fielded Gopinath’s wife, Mangati Sunitha, hoping to capitalise on the voters’ sympathy. The BJP, meanwhile, assigned Lankala Deepak Reddy, who made the contest an interesting triangular one. The campaign for Jubilee Hills saw personal barbs, covert alliances and strategic moves.
In an apparent bid to win over Muslim votes, the Congress inducted former Indian cricket team captain Mohammad Azharuddin into the Revanth Reddy Cabinet, a last-minute gamble to break the BRS’s urban grip. The polling on 11 November saw a voter turnout of 48.43 percent, higher than the 2023 Assembly polls.
South First brings you the trends and results as the counting progresses on Friday, 14 November.
As the officials have completed the counting of postal votes, they have initiated the counting of EVM votes.
Counting in progress at Kotla Vijaya Bbaksar Redy Indoor stadium in Yousufguda, Hyderabad.
Initial results are likely before 10 am.
Section 144 of the CrPC is in force at the counting centre.
1.94 lakh voters cast their votes out of the total voters of 4.01 lakh
Total voting: 48.47 percent
The Election Commission of India officials have initiated the counting process for the Jubilee Hills by-election. Postal votes will be counted first.
Exit polls for the by-election in the Jubilee Hills Assembly seat point to a strong lead for Congress, fuelling high morale within the party.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President B Mahesh Kumar Goud expressed confidence of a “huge majority” win, casting the result as a public endorsement of the government’s policies and governance.
