After 12 years, the TDP won the Chittoor Zilla Parishad seat by winning 37 ZPTCs out of the 65 ZPTCs. It has also won in 459 MPTCs in the district.
The YSRC had to be content with the second place by winning 27 ZPTCs. The Congress could not even get a single ZPTC while former chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s Jai Samaikyandhra Party could manage to win a lone seat at his native place Kalikiri.
The counting process which started Tuesday morning went on till late in the night. Some dramatic scenes unfolded late in the midnight. Initially, it was announced that the TDP won 35 seats but the YSRC leaders, who expressed dissatisfaction over the manner in which counting was held for Kurabalakota and Somala ZPTCs, demanded recounting of the votes of the two ZPTCs. In the recounting, both the seats went to TDP. With this, the TDP tally increased to 37 while YSRC ended up with 27.
In Kalikiri, JSP candidate Malati won the ZPTC giving a lone seat to the party floated by Kiran Kumar Reddy.
The election results also threw some surprises. The TDP’s Gudipala ZPTC candidate, K Sumathi Murali, who won the election, was working as a cook for the mid-day meal scheme at Naraharipet ZP High School and is also a member of the local Self Help Group.
Similarly, TDP Somala ZPTC candidate L Vimala, who won the election during the recounting with a margin of 1,190 votes, is a daily wage worker engaged in NREGS scheme.