Deputy Chief Minister and Jana Sena Party president K. Pawan Kalyan with Vijayawada Mayor-elect Vangaveeti Radhakrishna. File
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The National Democratic Alliance of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the Jana Sena Party (JSP) and the BJP has won a landslide victory in Vijayawada in the urban local body elections.
Delayed by continuous rain, the counting process, which began at around 3 p.m. on Tuesday, continued till late night. Election personnel worked till around 4 a.m. on Wednesday (November 4, 2026). The final results were announced by the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation on Wednesday morning.
The city has 8,05,797 voters across 86 divisions, of whom 4,46,021 exercised their franchise on Sunday (November 1). Of these, 4,27,385 votes were declared valid.
విజయవాడ మున్సిపల్ కార్పొరేషన్ మేయర్ గా కూటమి బలపరచిన జనసేన పార్టీ అభ్యర్థి శ్రీ వంగవీటి రాధాకృష్ణ గారు భారీ మెజారిటీతో ఘన విజయం సాధించిన సందర్భంగా శుభాకాంక్షలు.
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According to the final report on votes secured by each Mayoral candidate, JSP candidate Vangaveeti Radhakrishna got 2,65,968 votes. YSRCP candidate and former Mayor Rayana Bhagyalakshmi came second with 1,35,056 votes.
Independent candidate and former Vijayawada Police Commissioner A.B. Venkateswara Rao, who was supported by the Congress and the CPI and the CPI(M), secured 12,657 votes. His entry had made it a three-way contest, but Mr. Venkateswara Rao could not save his deposit: he failed to secure one-sixth of the total number of votes polled.
Vangaveeti Radhakrishna, with TDP leaders Buddha Venkanna and Gadde Anuradha, at a rally in Vijayawada on October 18, before filing his nomination for the Mayor’s post. He was elected Mayor by a margin of 1,30,912 votes. File
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Aam Aadmi Party candidate Kambhampati Rama Gopala Krishna Murthy got 499 votes. There were 19 candidates in the fray for the Mayor’s post, ten of them independents.
Alliance wins 76 of 86 divisions
The TDP and its alliance partners also swept the division elections. The TDP won 53 divisions, the Jana Sena Party 19 and the BJP four. In total, the alliance won 76 of the 86 divisions of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation.
The YSRCP, which won the municipal elections in Vijayawada in 2021, was reduced to eight divisions. The CPI(M)’s candidate, former corporator Boye Satya Babu, held his division, and an independent candidate won another.
The divisions the YSRCP won are 34, 53 and 58 in the Vijayawada West Assembly constituency, 78 in Vijayawada Central, and 6, 8, 10 and 26 in Vijayawada East. Mr. Satya Babu won Division 52 in the West constituency.
The TDP won the most divisions, 20, in the Vijayawada Central constituency, and 17 and 16 in the East and West constituencies respectively. The JSP won seven divisions each in the East and West constituencies and five in Central. The BJP won one division each in West and East and two in Central.
Published – November 04, 2026 12:47 pm IST
