Erode East Vote Counting Highlights | Tamil Nadu Bypoll Results 2023: Emphatic Win For DMK-Congress Candidate EVKS Elangovan; Setback For AIADMK's Revival Ambition
Erode East Bypoll Results: The election to the assembly seat was necessitated following the passing away of the Congress legislator E. Thirumahan Everaa who passed away on January 4 due to a sudden illness.
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Tamil Nadu Erode East Bypoll Results 2023: The counting of votes for Erode East by-election has been completed in 15 rounds that saw the DMK-Congress alliance winning comfortably. Congress' EVKS Elangovan established a huge lead from early trends and settled with 1,10,039 votes at the end of 15th round while the rival AIADMK candidate KS Thennarasu could only get 43,981 votes but was able to save his deposits. EVKS won the polls with a huge margin of over 65 thousand votes. While the DMK termed the victory as an edorsement of 'Dravidian Model of Governance', the BJP downplayed it saying the sympathy factor went in favour of the ruling alliance. A total of 77 candidates were in fray from the seat.
As many as 450 security personnel and 48 surveillance cameras were deployed to guard the strong room where the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were stroed. The voting for the Erode East by-election was held on February 27. Election commission said that a total of 100 officials were involved in the counting of votes. The counting of postal votes were taken up first. The Chief Electoral officer for the bypoll was the District Collector of Erode M. Krishnanunni, while the Election Observer (General) was Rajkumar Yadav. The election to the Erode East Assembly was necessitated following the passing away of the Congress legislator E. Thirumahan Everaa who passed away on January 4 due to a sudden illness.
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