From Game of Thrones to Sreesanth’s towel: Best of Twitter on #Elections2016

First comes the news, then come the jokes on Twitter.

With the election results from the four states and one Union Territory being announced on Thursday, it was a big day not just for the electorate, but also for the wisecracking Twitterati who had plenty of opinions to share.

From ‘Amma’ jokes on Jayalalithaa’s historic second successive term as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister to sly comments on cricketer-turned BJP candidate Sreesanth’s loss, here are the best and funniest twitter reactions to the 2016 Election Results.

From jibes against Congress…

Rahul Gandhi wins 5 seats. Incredible. pic.twitter.com/uJI3OhIUTB

— Gabbar (@GabbbarSingh) May 19, 2016

He might as well save this tweet in his drafts folder https://t.co/OBI8Z13Qm6

— Mihir Sharma (@mihirssharma) May 19, 2016

BREAKING: Rahul Gandhi to lead the next election of DPS School for the class Monitor post. #Verdict16

— Farrago Abdullah Parody (@abdullah_0mar) May 19, 2016

Amma ahead in Tamil Nadu, Didi winning in Bengal. Bahu's party losing in Assam. #Verdict16

— Gabbar (@GabbbarSingh) May 19, 2016

Congress se zyada seats to Innova me hai 😂😂

— maithun (@Being_Humor) May 19, 2016

To memes on Captain Vijayakanth

If only captain got one vote per every meme that was created on him. Just imagine. #MaatukkuOruKaiEzhuthu#TNElectionResults

— Manoj Prabakar (@pmanojprabakar) May 19, 2016

Vijayakanth is losing badly in Tamil Nadu elections. He should now start a Tasmac party

— Madhavan Narayanan (@madversity) May 19, 2016

There were plenty of comments on Amma’s return

She goes to jail, Her govt totters, She falls ill, She is rarely seen in public & She is voted back to power. TN = Enigma #TNElectionResults

— YP Rajesh (@YPRajesh) May 19, 2016

And since this is the season, there were Game of Thrones references as well

Didi wins, Amma wins. Blow to patriarchy. But why should women be just Didis and Ammas? That's patriarchy. #AdarshLiberalDiary

— Rahul Roushan (@rahulroushan) May 19, 2016

And a Harry Potter one

Plenty of jibes on Sreesanth’s (yet another) loss

So Sreesanth throws in the towel. #KeralaElectionResults

— Abhishek Mukherjee (@ovshake42) May 19, 2016

Sreesanth trailing. He tends to struggle in IPL season #Verdict16

— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) May 19, 2016

Pic 1: During campaigning
Pic2: After Election results #KeralaPolls2016 pic.twitter.com/eLTxJGOU4U

— The Lying Lama 2.0 (@KyaUkhaadLega) May 19, 2016

And the real reason why outgoing Kerala CM Chandy lost

Oomen CHANDY banned booze in Kerala. And look at the revenge of the people now! Never separate a tiller from his tipple. @ShashiTharoor

— SUHEL SETH (@Suhelseth) May 19, 2016

Joke doing rounds in #Kerala. While #Congress faces an imminent defeat, Outgoing CM Oommen Chandy is still busy checking his office files.

— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) May 19, 2016

A special mention to all the Bengal and Left jokes

Mamata Banerjee sweep shows Bengal won't vote back Left in a hurry. Only time left looked good for long — when Brian Lara batted. #Verdict16

— Abhijit Majumder (@abhijitmajumder) May 19, 2016

That Awkward moment when Kolkata public buses have more seats than the Left.

— Pratik (@fake_engineer7) May 19, 2016