Naidu cites 58.9% NDA vote share in local polls, up 3.6 points on 2024

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has put numbers on the alliance’s showing in Andhra Pradesh’s local body elections, saying the NDA’s vote share was 58.9% against 55.3% in the 2024 Assembly elections, a rise of 3.6 percentage points. Speaking on Monday, 9 November, he said the YSR Congress Party fell from 39.81% to 33.56%, which stretched the gap between the two sides to 25.34 points.

All of these are Naidu’s own figures. The Telugu Scope team has not independently verified the vote shares.

Town and parishad figures

Naidu split the numbers by the kind of poll. In the urban bodies, he said, the NDA took 59.9% and the YSRCP 34.3%. In the parishad elections held on 5 November, the alliance polled 57.6% against 39.7% for the YSRCP.

On seats, he said the NDA won 575 of the 659 ZPTC seats and led in 27 of the state’s 28 districts. That ZPTC tally is the same one our counting-day report carried on 7 November. In the municipal and corporation polls, which were voted on 1 November and counted on 3 November, he said the alliance won 94 of the 100 mayor and chairperson posts and 3,233 of 3,941 wards. The YSRCP, he said, won 558 wards and four urban bodies.

Anantapur and the next step

Naidu also named the one place where the alliance did badly. He acknowledged a poor result in Anantapur, said the reasons would be examined and promised action against those found responsible, without saying what that action would be.

He described the elections as peaceful, pointed to the postal ballot results as a sign of government employees’ support, and said all three alliance partners were committed to working together. The party leadership is yet to say what form the Anantapur review will take.