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Warangal has distinction of highest, lowest win margin

Hyderabad: Warangal MP Pasunuri Dayakar of TRS holds a unique record in the electoral history of Telangana. His majority of 4,59,092 votes in the 2015 by-elections not only tops the charts in the margin of victories recorded in the youngest state of India, but also stands as the seventh biggest margins scored in the annals of parliamentary elections.



As the ruling TRS shifts all its energies to thump rivals in 16 LS seats, the leadership’s main focus is on eclipsing the previous records and setting new benchmarks in the victory margins. For that matter, Dayakar’s win overshadowed his boss, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s 3,97,029 vote win in 2014 elections from Medak where he defeated his Congress rival Sravan Kumar.

While Dayakar got a whopping 6,15,403 votes, Congress party’s Sarve Satyanarayana and BJP’s Pagidipati Devaiah registered 1,56,311 and 1,30,178 votes respectively out of a total 10,34,840 votes polled in the by-elections. “By capturing 59.46% of the polled votes, the TRS broke its own record of 56.33% set by Kadiyam Srihari, who won in 2014 with a majority of 3,92,574 votes,” a senior analyst explained. After Srihari quit his MP seat, Dayakar entered the poll arena in 2015.

When Andhra Pradesh was unified, former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao registered a record from Nandyal by winning with a margin of 5.80 lakh votes in 1991. Similarly, in the Kadapa byelection in 2011, YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy romped home with a massive majority of 5.45 lakh votes. After Telangana was carved out in 2014, Kotha Prabhakar Reddy too entered the record books by winning the Medak by-election in 2014 with a huge 3,61,277 vote majority over his Congress rival, former minister Sunita Lakshma Reddy.

Balka Suman, who emerged from student politics, made all the records tumble in Peddapalli by outsmarting his seasoned Congress rival G Vivek by a margin of 2,91,158 votes.

That the CM holds sway in state politics was evident when he recorded wins in both assembly (Gajwel) and Lok Sabha (Medak) seats in 2014. KCR achieved the record twice as he had won Siddipet assembly constituency and Karimnagar LS seat in 2004 elections. Senior TRS leaders claimed that huge victories in December assembly elections were a precursor to the bigger margins the party’s MP candidates would be gunning for.

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