HYDERABAD: The YSR Congress Party led by YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Thursday virtually decimated the Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP and appeared on course for a landslide win in Andhra Pradesh with its candidates winning in 74 seats and leading in 76 others. The ruling Telugu Desam Party won in 12 seats and was leading in an equal number while actor-politician's Jana Sena party was ahead in one, according to the late night trends on the Election Commission website.


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The YS Jaganmohan Reddy-led YSRC was expected to end up with over a three-fourths majority in the 175-member Assembly.


After the party's emphatic victory, the YSRC Legislature Party will meet on May 25 to formally elect Jaganmohan Reddy as its leader, who will be sworn-in as chief minister on May 30.


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Later speaking to reporters, Reddy told reporters that he would take oath as CM at Vijayawada on May 30 and promised to bring in governance that the country would stand up and look to.


With his party set to wrest power, Reddy on Thursday described it as ''people's victory.'' Terming his party's good show in the state Assembly polls and Lok Sabha elections as a "new chapter" in the history of Andhra Pradesh, Reddy told reporters such a massive mandate came with a tremendous amount of responsibility.


"I will make sure that I live up to that expectations," he added. As the trends indicated a clear lead for the YSRC, TDP president Chandrababu Naidu forwarded his resignation from the Chief Minister's post to state Governor E S L Narasimhan, who accepted it.


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At a press conference, Naidu said he accepted the verdict of the people of Andhra Pradesh and congratulated YSR Congress on its victory in the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in the state.


He said the TDP would now review the results and announce the future course of action. The first Assembly elections of the residual Andhra Pradesh five years after the bifurcation was held on April 11.


Jagan Reddy also congratulated PM Modi over the BJP's stupendous performance in the Lok Sabha polls. The YSRC chief asserted that his fight for securing special category status for Andhra Pradesh would continue. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao also congratulated Reddy over the YSRC's thumping win in the general elections.


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In 2014 elections, the TDP had won 102 seats in the 175-member Assembly while its then alliance partner BJP secured 4 seats. YSRCP emerged as the only opposition bagging 67 seats. Two independents were also elected. Interestingly, the YSRCP polled 45.01 per cent votes, a mere 1.6 per cent less than the votes polled by the TDP-BJP combine.


Out of 25 Lok Sabha seats, the TDP bagged 15 seats while BJP got two in 2014. The YSRCP secured eight seats. Facing people's wrath over bifurcation, the Congress was completely wiped out drawing a blank in both the Assembly and Lok Sabha polls.


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# Here are the latest Election Results (Source EC)


98 results have been declared of which 61 have gone to BJP, 17 to INC, 4 to TRS, 3 to DMK, 2 to JKNC, SAD and Shiv Sena, 1 each to AITC, NCP, LJSP, BSP, JD(U) & JD (S). Of the remaining 444 seats, BJP leading in 241 seats, INC in 34, AITC in 21, DMK in 20, Shiv Sena in 16 and YSRC in 22 seats. 


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