Exit polls conducted after Tuesday’s elections indicated that while the YSR Congress would win most seats, it would not “sweep” the bypolls as had been predicted by the party’s leaders.
News channel Headlines Today predicted that Kadapa MP Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSR Congress would win 13 to 15 Assembly seats and the Nellore Lok Sabha seat. The Congress and Telugu Desam would get a seat each while the TRS would win in Parkal in Telangana. The exit poll stated that the Reddy community had fully backed Mr Reddy and the Congress had not benefited from its merger with Mr Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam. Meanwhile, Vijayawada Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal also released the results of his survey which predicted that the YSR Congress would get a minimum of 12 and maximum of 16 seats.