India, Nov. 14 -- Congress candidate V Naveen Yadav on Friday won the Jubilee Hills bypoll in Telengana with a margin of 24,729 votes against Bharat Rashtra Samithi contestant Maganti Sunitha Gopinath.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) declared the results after ten rounds of counting. The Jubilee Hills seat is located in the state capital city of Hyderabad and witnessed a direct contest between the Congress and the BRS.

The Congress candidate received a total of 98,988 votes against Maganti Sunitha Gopinath, who got 74,259 votes. BJP's Deepak Reddy Lankala, who received 17,061 votes, came third on the seat.

At the counting centre at the Kotla Vijayabhaskar Reddy Stadium, Congress candidate Vallala Naveen Yadav was leading by a ma...