How many seats YSR Congress Party won in Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies election (ZPTCs) held in September 2021?

The correct answer is 505

Key Points

• YSRCP sweeps 13 zilla parishads, 90% mandals in Andhra Pradesh in Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies election (ZPTCs) held in September 2021.
• Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) registered a landslide victory in the local body polls after winning 505 Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies (ZPTC) and 5998 Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituencies (MPTC) in Andhra Pradesh. 
• Meanwhile, the party also won a huge number of constituencies at the MPTC level by registering victory in 5,998 constituencies out of 10047.
• Andhra Pradesh's main opposition party Telugu Desam Party (TDP), led by former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, won only 826 Mandal constituencies, while the party could only win six Zilla Parishad constituencies.

Additional Information

• The YSRCP has a brute majority in Parliament, State and now local bodies seats.
• The ruling party also swept the Kuppam Assembly constituency, from where Naidu elected is.
• Out of four ZPTC in Kuppam, the YSRCP won all the seats by registering a winning margin of 62,297 votes.
• The YSRCP bagged 84,160 votes and the TDP could get 21,863 votes only.
• The TDP tasted defeat in village panchayat elections also which was conducted in February 2021.
• There are 89 panchayats in the Kuppam assembly constituency, ruling YSRCP won 75 and the TDP is confined to 14.
• As YSRCP is being seated on all the local bodies in Kuppam, the party is aiming to win the assembly segment in the next state polls.

• In ZPTC, the TDP won six constituencies; Pawan Kalyan-led Jana Sena Party (JSP) won two segments; CPI, CPM and independents registered victory in one constituency each. Meanwhile, as many as 126 candidates were elected unanimously.