<p>The youngest state of India, Telangana, is heading for elections on November 30 in a single-phase polling. The 119-seat Telangana Assembly has 19 seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and 12 for Scheduled Tribes. The majority mark in the state Assembly is 60.</p><p>Ruled by BRS (then TRS) since its formation, Telangana has been under CM KCR's tenure for almost a decade now. The key Opposition party in the state is Congress while BJP is looking to make its mark in the southern state after its debacle in the neighbouring Karnataka.</p><p>Telangana has a total of 3,17,32,727 voters including 3,17,17,389 general voters 5,06,493 PwD voters, 5,32,990 young voters, 15,338 service voters, and 4,43,943 senior citizens aged over 80.</p>.Telangana Assembly polls: How richest candidates fared in the 2018 election.<p>In the 2018 polls, the then-Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) swept the elections by a large majority and won 88 seats. Second in line was Congress with 19 seats, while AIMIM bagged seven seats, and BJP could win only a single seat.</p>. <p>BRS dominated the polls with a vote share of 46.8 per cent while Congress had 28.4 per cent of the same.</p><p>The 2018 polls witnessed 16 candidates winning with a margin of less than 5000 votes -- 10 TRS and six Congress candidates. </p><p>As per poll pundits, BRS has an edge once again in Telangana and KCR is touted to grab the CM's throne for the third consecutive time.</p>
<p>The youngest state of India, Telangana, is heading for elections on November 30 in a single-phase polling. The 119-seat Telangana Assembly has 19 seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and 12 for Scheduled Tribes. The majority mark in the state Assembly is 60.</p><p>Ruled by BRS (then TRS) since its formation, Telangana has been under CM KCR's tenure for almost a decade now. The key Opposition party in the state is Congress while BJP is looking to make its mark in the southern state after its debacle in the neighbouring Karnataka.</p><p>Telangana has a total of 3,17,32,727 voters including 3,17,17,389 general voters 5,06,493 PwD voters, 5,32,990 young voters, 15,338 service voters, and 4,43,943 senior citizens aged over 80.</p>.Telangana Assembly polls: How richest candidates fared in the 2018 election.<p>In the 2018 polls, the then-Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) swept the elections by a large majority and won 88 seats. Second in line was Congress with 19 seats, while AIMIM bagged seven seats, and BJP could win only a single seat.</p>. <p>BRS dominated the polls with a vote share of 46.8 per cent while Congress had 28.4 per cent of the same.</p><p>The 2018 polls witnessed 16 candidates winning with a margin of less than 5000 votes -- 10 TRS and six Congress candidates. </p><p>As per poll pundits, BRS has an edge once again in Telangana and KCR is touted to grab the CM's throne for the third consecutive time.</p>
