TDP wins Mayor posts in Tirupati, Kadapa and Nellore by big margins

Municipal Commissioner M. Jayakrishna and Returning Officer Sri Bharat hand the declaration of election to Manne Srinivasa Prasad (J.B. Srinivas), elected Mayor of Tirupati, at S.V. Arts College in Tirupati on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) candidate Manne Srinivasa Prasad (J.B. Srinivas) won the Mayor’s post in the Tirupati Municipal Corporation (TMC) in the urban local body elections with a majority of 61,582 votes over YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) candidate Y. Vasudeva by the end of counting at S.V. Arts College in Tirupati on Tuesday (November 3, 2026).

Of the 1.36 lakh votes polled, Mr. Srinivas received 94,937 and Mr. Vasudeva 33,355. Other candidates together got 3,176 votes, 3,149 votes were declared invalid and 1,389 went to none of the above (NOTA).

Of the 66 wards in the TMC limits, TDP candidates won 38 and YSRCP candidates 19. The candidates of the Jana Sena Party (JSP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and others won three wards each.

In Kadapa, the TDP’s Mayor candidate Matli Suvarna won with 1,31,615 votes, a majority of 65,588 votes against the YSRCP’s Bandi Deepthi, who received 41,020 votes by the final round of counting at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) Polytechnic College.

Returning Officer A. Murali hands the declaration form to Matli Suvarna, elected Mayor of Kadapa, at MANUU Polytechnic College in Kadapa on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Of the 66 wards in the Kadapa Municipal Corporation limits, TDP candidates won 61, the BJP two, and the YSRCP and the JSP one each. Independent candidates and those of other political parties failed to win any ward.

In Nellore, the TDP’s Mayor candidate Poluboina Roop Kumar Yadav won by a majority of 80,170 votes over the YSRCP’s Anam Vijaya Kumar Reddy after the final round of counting at DKW College in Nellore.

Returning Officer and Joint Collector M. Venkateswarlu hands the declaration form to Poluboina Roop Kumar Yadav, elected Mayor of Nellore, in the early hours of Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Published - November 04, 2026 02:56 pm IST