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

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.