Riding on the crest of a sympathy wave, YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) candidate Mekapati Vikram Reddy emerged victorious in the byelection to the Atmakur Assembly constituency in SPSR Nellore district by a margin of 82,742 votes, as the counting of votes polled on Thursday was taken up on Sunday.
The YSRCP candidate, brother of former MLA and Industries and Information Technology Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy, whose untimely death necessitated the bypoll, polled 1,02,074 votes, an increase in the victory margin by over 60,000 when compared to 2019.
