Hyderabad:
Votes are being counted in 294 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh today, which will be split for the creation of Telangana on June 2.
The two-phase polls held in Telangana region on April 30 and Seemandhra (collectively known as Andhra and Rayalasema regions) on May 7 were the last elections in the undivided Andhra Pradesh, which is the first state to be created in the country on linguistic basis.
In early leads in Seemandhra, TDP was leading in over 50 Assembly seats and the YSR Congress Party in 40.
TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu was leading from Kuppam in Chittoor district by over 1,400 votes.
The 175 Assembly seats in Seemandhra went to polls on May 7.
The outcome of counting is set to redefine broad political contours in both the regions that under unified Andhra Pradesh have seen successive Congress governments.
Winning candidates would become members of respective first Legislative Assemblies of residuary Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, a certainly emotional moment for many.
Bitter campaigning marked the run-up to polls between principal contenders - Congress and TRS in Telangana, and TDP-BJP combine and YSR Congress Party in Seemandhra (residuary Andhra Pradesh).
The Congress which had won 33 of total 42 Lok Sabha seats in 2009 polls has seemingly ceded the ground in Seemandhra as the public anger is directed towards the party for dividing Andhra Pradesh to create Telangana.
Analysts feel that Congress is facing a rout in Seemandhra region.