Secunderabad Lok Sabha Elections: Secunderabad Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Dates, schedule, partywise candidates and all you need to know

Traditionally a Congress stronghold, the Secunderabad seat has seen a recent shift to the Bharatiya Janata Party with incumbent G Kishan Reddy looking to keep his seat for a second term, while the saffron party looks to consolidate its hold in the southern state.

One of 17 seats in Telangana, the Hyderabad constituency is set to see a battle between the BJP and the BRS, with the Congress looking less likely to bother either party.

Secunderabad Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Dates
In 2019, the elections for the Secunderabad seat were held on April 11. With the Election Commission set to announce dates for the general polls soon, there is a high level of anticipation within party workers and the local populace. The poll body is set to announce the dates on March 16.

Secunderabad Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Result date
The Election Commission is set to announce the dates for the results of the 18th Lok Sabha elections, with a likely timeframe of April-May. In 2019, the results for the general elections were announced on May 23.

Secunderabad Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Candidates
So far, only the BJP has announced its candidate for the Secunderabad seat, with incumbent Kishan Reddy fighting to retain his seat. The other major names – the BRS and the Congress – are yet to announce a candidate for the seat.

Secunderabad Lok Sabha Elections 2019
Five years ago, in 2019, the Secunderabad seat was won by G Kishan Reddy, with a 60,000 vote margin. The BJP leader bagged 42% of the 9,15,263 votes cast, continuing the BJP’s presence in the seat. Reddy’s closest challenger was the BRS’ Talasani Sai Kiran Yadav, who got 35.2% of the vote. In 2014, the seat was also won by the BJP, but by Bandaru Dattatreya who secured 43.66% of the vote, with a 2.5 lakh vote margin, while his closest contender Anjan Kumar Yadav managed to grab only 18.28% of the 10,03,769 votes cast. Yadav and Dattatreya had swapped positions in the previous election, in 2009, when Congress leader secured a 1.7 lakh vote margin. Secunderabad Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Past winners