Elections in Telangana


The Indian state of Telangana was officially formed on 2 June 2014. Since then, elections in the state are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India to elect representatives of various bodies on national, state and district levels.

Electoral system

National level

Lok Sabha

Telangana has 17 Lok Sabha constituencies of which 3 are reserved for Scheduled Castes and 2 for Scheduled Tribes from which electors have direct election to choose their desired candidate to make them Member of Parliament. Lok Sabha elections have been held in Telanaga only once, during the 2019 Indian general election.
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Rajya Sabha

The members of Rajya Sabha are elected indirectly, through the MLAs. Telangana sends 7 members to Rajya Sabha, elected through its legislative assembly and legislative council. Before the bifurcation of states, the combined state of Andhra Pradesh used to represent 18 seats to Rajya Sabha. Post bifurcation, Andhra Pradesh seats were changed to 11 and Telangana has had 7 seats since then. On 30 May 2014, draw was conducted amongst the existing 18 members select the 7 members of Telanagana. In the draw, 3 members of Telugu Desam Party and 4 members of Indian National Congress were selected.
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NoNamePartyDate of
Appointment		Date of
Retirement
1Banda PrakashTRS03-Apr-201802-Apr-2024
2Badugula Lingaiah YadavTRS03-Apr-201802-Apr-2024
3Joginapally Santosh KumarTRS03-Apr-201802-Apr-2024
4D. SrinivasTRS22-Jun-201621-Jun-2022
5V. Lakshmikantha RaoTRS22-Jun-201621-Jun-2022
6Garikapati Mohan RaoTDP02-Jun-201409-Apr-2020
7K. V. P. Ramachandra RaoINC02-Jun-201409-Apr-2020

State level

Legislative Assembly

The Telangana Legislative Assembly has 119 constituencies of which 18 are reserved for Scheduled Castes and 9 for Scheduled Tribes candidates. The first election to constitute the Legislative Assembly were held on 30 April 2014, prior to the formation of the state. The first phase of the elections were held in constituencies that would form the new state in June 2014. The results were declared on 16 May 2014 and Telangana Rashtra Samithi won 63 seats and received the majority. K. Chandrashekar Rao, the founder of TRS was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of Telangana. The second Assembly elections were held on 7 December 2018 after Governor E. S. L. Narasimhan dissolved the assembly early on the advice of Rao. The results declared on 11 December 2018 indicated TRS maintaining the majority; this time winning 88 seats. Rao was again sworn in as the Chief Minister for second term.

Legislative Council

Political parties

Since its inception, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti has been the most dominant political party in the state, forming full majority governments in the state for two consecutive terms on its own. TRS was formed in 2001 with primary agenda of obtaining statehood for Telangana.
Other major political parties are:
National Parties
State Parties
Other Parties
As per the survey conducted by the NGO Association for Democratic Reforms, for the 2019 general election, unemployment remained the major issue amongst the voters in both urban and rural areas. For urban areas this was followed by noise pollution and in rural areas next immediate issues were noted to be better prices for farm products, and continuation of subsidy for seeds and fertilizers.