BRS projected to retain Jubilee Hills with 8 percent lead: KK Surveys exit poll

Exit polls conducted by KK Surveys and Strategies indicate that the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is poised to retain the Jubilee Hills constituency, a bastion it has held for over a decade. The survey shows BRS leading with 49 per cent vote share, ahead of Congress at 41 per cent and BJP at 8 per cent.

Hyderabad: Multiple exit polls had on Tuesday itself predicted that the BRS would retain the Jubilee Hills constituency, which has remained the party bastion for the last 11 years. Now, KK Surveys and Strategies has also declared BRS as the frontrunner in the bypoll with a significant eight percent margin against the Congress.

According to the KK exit poll, BRS was leading with 49 percent vote share, followed by Congress at 41 percent and BJP at 8 percent. KK Surveys and Strategies attributed the BRS lead to the public trust in the party’s governance and the strong local connect of its candidate Maganti Sunitha Gopinath.

Earlier in its pre-poll survey, the agency had already identified BRS as the frontrunner, estimating a 55.2 percent vote share against 37.8 percent of the Congress. The BJP was ranked a distant third with just seven percent vote share.

The final results of the byelection will be announced on November 14.