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For every round, 14,000 votes to be counted, as many as 8,152 personnel will be involved in the process

So far 45,175 votes were counted, BJP got 20,226 votes, TRS polled 17,559 and Congress polled 3254 votes.

According to the official results up to the second round Raghunandan Rao polled 9223 votes, Sujatha 7964 and Srinivas Reddy of Congress was polled only 1931 votes.

Arrangements for counting of votes were made by the officials by strictly adhering to Covid-19 regulations.

The Election Commission is making sure that the winds of potential change cause no disruption in the counting process.

The provisional turnout in the third phase of polling on 78 seats spread in 15 districts is 57.58 per cent, according to poll panel data updated till 8 pm