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Atmakur assembly bypoll 2022 results: Massive win for YSR Congress

Counting of votes is underway in the Atmakuru assembly constituency in SPS Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh where bypoll were held on June 23. The counting of votes is taking place at the Atmakur Engineering College in Nellorepalem.

Atmakur assembly bypoll 2022 results updates counting of votes YSRCP BJP winner
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Atmakur, First Published Jun 26, 2022, 9:29 AM IST

The YSR Congress Party registered a massive victory in the Atmakuru assembly constituency in the SPS Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh where the counting of votes was undertaken on Sunday at the Atmakur Engineering College in Nellorepalem. The bypoll was held on June 23.

YSR Congress Party candidate Vikram Reddy defeated his nearest rival, BJP's G Bharat Kumar to win the Atmakur assembly by-election. He won by a margin of 82,742 votes. 

The bypoll was necessitated by the demise of sitting legislator Mekapati Goutham Reddy on February 21. Goutham was Industries and Information Technology Minister in the Jagan Mohan Reddy's first Cabinet.

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YSR Congress had fielded Goutham's younger brother Mekapati Vikram Reddy as its candidate. The rival TDP followed the tradition of not putting up a candidate if a sitting legislator dies. However, the BJP fielded Gundlapalli Bharat Kumar as its candidate.

The bypoll witnessed fewer turnout than during the 2019 assembly elections. The polling process in all 279 polling stations saw a voter turnout of 64.27 per cent while during the 2019 assembly elections the turnout was 82.44 per cent.

To recall, Goutham Reddy defeated TDP's Bollineni Krishnayya by a margin of 22,276 votes in the 2019 election. His brother has just managed to beat the BJP candidate by almost four times the margin that the party received in 2019.

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