2012 Andhra Pradesh By-Polls for 18 Assembly and 1 LS Seats

18 Assembly Seats 
1)Narasannpeta
2)Payakaraopeta
3)Ramachandrapuram
4)Polavaram(ST)
5)Narsapuram
6)Prathipadu(SC)
7)Macherla
8)Ongole
9)Udayagiri
10)Tirpati
11)Railway Kodur(SC)
12)Rayachoti
13)Rajampet
14)Anantapur
15)Rayadurg
16)Yemmiganur
17)Allagadda and
18)Parkala

1 Lok Sabha Seat 
1) Nellore

In 16 of the 18 assembly seats that vote today, by-elections are being held because the sitting Congress MLAs were disqualified by the Assembly Speaker for switching loyalties to the YSR Congress and voting against the Congress government during a no-trust vote in December 2011.

As many as 46,13,589 voters, including 22,79,732 men and 23,33,844 women electors and 13 others, would exercise their franchise at 5,413 polling stations set up in the Nellore Lok Sabha constituency and 18 Assembly segments, spread over 12 districts in the State on Tuesday June 12,2012.

Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are being used at all the polling stations. Counting of votes will be taken up on June 15,2012

The By-poll is crucial for ruling Congress and arrested YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy. 
For the YSR Congress, the by-elections marked by a high decibel campaign have become very crucial as it had fielded all 17 MLAs who had been disqualified for defying the Congress party whip in the assembly and their victory could be a threat to the Congress government, which is surviving with a razor thin majority.(As against the magic figure of 148 MLAs in the 294-member assembly, the Congress has just 151 MLAs at present) 

80 % voting in AP by-polls

 

Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampat said in Delhi that the average turnout for the 18 seats in Andhra Pradesh was around 80 %.and 70 per cent of the electorate voted in the Nellore Lok Sabha constituency

Jagan's YSR Congress Sweeps  By-Polls

YSR Congress Party on Friday June 15,2012 swept the crucial Andhra Pradesh by-polls by winning 15 out of 18 Assembly constituencies and the Nellore Lok Sabha seat.

Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy of the YSRCP retained Nellore Lok Sabha seat with a massive majority of more than 290,000 votes over his nearest rival and former central minister T Subbarami Reddy of the Congress party

INC could win only Narasapuram and Ramachandrapuram and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) bagged one seat,Parkala