BJP’s Rajagopal Reddy did not lead by over 2000 votes after 4 rounds of counting in the Munugode bypoll

In the context of recently concluded Munugode bypoll in which TRS party won by a margin of over 10,000 votes, a post featuring the image of BJP’s candidate K.Rajagopal Reddy is being widely shared claiming that BJP was leading by 2000+ votes by the end of 4^th round of counting. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.

Claim: BJP’ candidate K. Rajagopal Reddy led by 2000+ votes by the end of 4^th round in Munugode by-election counting.
Fact: According to the official figures released by Election Commission of India, after 4^th round of counting in Munugode by-election, TRS candidate secured 26,443 votes whereas BJP’s Rajagopal Reddy secured 25,729 votes. This shows that TRS was leading BJP by 714 votes by the end of 4^th round of counting. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.

According to the official website of the Election Commission of India, by the end of 4^th round, TRS party’s candidate K.Prabhakar Reddy secured 26,443 votes, whereas BJP’s Rajagopal Reddy secured 25,729 votes. It shows that TRS is leading by 714 votes by the end of 4^th round.

The round-wise vote breakup for the first four rounds can be seen below:

Rounds	TRS	BJP
1	6418	5126
2	7781	8622
3	7390	7426
4	4854	4555
Total	26,443	25,729

TRS secured 408 postal votes, whereas BJP got 212. The final result shows TRS’s candidate winning the seat by securing a total of 97,006 votes whereas BJP managed to get 86,697 votes.