India, Nov. 7 -- The Telugu Desam Party (TDP)-led alliance in Andhra Pradesh registered a landslide victory in the elections to the Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituencies (MPTCs) and Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies (ZPTCs), according to results announced by the State Election Commission (SEC) on Saturday night.

As vote counting was still underway, the SEC released figures at 9 pm showing that the Telugu Desam Party and its alliance partners, the Jana Sena Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party, had together won 273 of the 582 ZPTC seats and 5,597 of the 7,767 MPTC seats for which results had been declared.

The TDP emerged as the dominant party, winning 229 ZPTC seats and 4,823 MPTC seats, including those declared unopposed. ...