1998 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh

1998 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh

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42 seats
  First party Second party
 
Leader Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy N. Chandrababu Naidu
Party INC TDP
Alliance INC + None
Leader's seat Kadapa None
Last election 22 16
Seats won 22 12
Seat change Steady Decrease 4
Popular vote 12,269,475 12,215,937
Percentage 38.46% 38.29%
Swing Decrease 0.40% Increase 1.20%


Prime Minister before election

Inder Kumar Gujral
JD

Prime Minister after election

Atal Bihari Vajpayee
BJP

The 1998 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh were held for 42 seats in the state. The result was a victory for the Indian National Congress, which won 22 out of 42 seats.[1]

Parties and alliances

Alliance/Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested
United Front Telugu Desam Party
N. Chandrababu Naidu 35 42
Communist Party of India (Marxist) Harkishan Singh Surjeet 3
Communist Party of India
Sudhakar Reddy 3
Janata Dal V. P. Singh 1
Indian National Congress Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy 42
National Democratic Alliance Bharatiya Janata Party C. Vidyasagar Rao 38
NTR Telugu Desam Party (LP)
Lakshmi Parvathi 5
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi 1

Candidates

Constituency TDP+ INC NDA
No. Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate
1 Srikakulam TDP Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu INC Dharmana Prasada Rao NTDP Appayya Dora Hanumanthu
2 Parvathipuram (ST) TDP Satrucharla Vijaya Rama Raju INC Pradeep Kumar Dev Vyrichearla Did not contest
3 Bobbili TDP Kondapalli Pydithalli Naidu INC Botsa Satyanarayana BJP Vasireddy Varada Rama Rao
4 Visakhapatnam TDP Pusapati Ananda Gajapati Raju INC T. Subbarami Reddy BJP D. V. Subba Rao
5 Bhadrachalam (ST) CPI Sode Ramaiah INC Kamala Kumari Karredula NTDP Setti Lakshmanudu
6 Anakapalli TDP Chintakayala Ayyanna Patrudu INC Gudivada Gurunadha Rao BJP P. V. Chalapathi Rao
7 Kakinada TDP Thota Gopala Krishna INC M. M. Pallam Raju BJP Krishnam Raju
8 Rajahmundry TDP M. V. V. S. Murthi INC T. V. Satyanarayana Reddy BJP Girajala Venkata Swamy Naidu
9 Amalapuram (SC) TDP G. M. C. Balayogi INC K. S. R. Murthy BJP Umamaheswara Rao Kommabathula
10 Narasapur TDP Kothapalli Subbarayudu INC Kanumuri Bapi Raju BJP Dr. Parakala Prabhakar
11 Eluru TDP Bolla Bulli Ramaiah INC Maganti Venkateswara Rao BJP Jayalakshmi Yalamarthi
12 Machilipatnam TDP Kaikala Satyanarayana INC Kavuri Samba Siva Rao BJP Nagarjuna Rao Vemuri
13 Vijayawada TDP Jai Ramesh Dasari INC P. Upendra BJP Vadde Ramakrishna Prasad
14 Tenali TDP Sarada Tadiparthi INC P. Shiv Shanker BJP Raghunadha Babu Yadlapati
15 Guntur TDP S. M. Laljan Basha INC Rayapati Sambasiva Rao BJP Avula Veerasekhararao
16 Bapatla TDP Ummareddy Venkateswarlu INC N. Janardhana Reddy BJP Ganesuni Rathaiah Chowdary
17 Narasaraopet TDP Saidaiah Kota INC Konijeti Rosaiah BJP Kabbireddy Medikonda
18 Ongole TDP Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy INC Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy BJP Kondapalli Guravaiah Naidu
19 Nellore (SC) CPI(M) Buduru Swarnalatha INC Panabaka Lakshmi BJP Karupothala Balakondaiah
20 Tirupati (SC) TDP Dr. N. Sivaprasad INC Chintha Mohan BJP N. Venkataswamy
21 Chittoor TDP Nuthanakalva Ramakrishna Reddy INC M. Gnanendra Reddy BJP N. P. Venkateswara Chowdary
22 Rajampet TDP Gunipati Ramaiah INC Annayyagari Sai Prathap BJP Dr. A. Harinath Reddy
NTDP P. Chandra Sekhar Reddy
23 Cuddapah TDP Kandula Rajamohana Reddy INC Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy BJP Nagendra Prasad Kadiri
24 Hindupur TDP S. Ramachandra Reddy INC S. Gangadhar BJP Smt. Anjani Devi Pamudurthi
25 Anantapur CPI K. Ramakrishna INC Anantha Venkatarami Reddy BJP Veluri Kesava Chowdary
26 Kurnool TDP K. E. Krishna Murthy INC Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy BJP K. Venkataswamy
27 Nandyal TDP Bhuma Nagi Reddy INC G. Prathap Reddy BJP Syed Jaffar Ali Khan
28 Nagarkurnool (SC) TDP Manda Jagannath INC Mallu Ravi BJP Dr. S. Balu
NTDP A. R. R. Kumar
29 Mahabubnagar JD Jaipal Reddy INC Mallikarjun Goud BJP A. P. Jithender Reddy
30 Hyderabad TDP K. S. Ratnam INC Kichannagari Laxma Reddy BJP Baddam Bal Reddy
31 Secunderabad TDP Alladi P. Rajkumar INC P. V. Rajeshwar Rao BJP Bandaru Dattatreya
32 Siddipet (SC) TDP Malyala Rajaiah INC Nandi Yellaiah BJP N. A. Krishna
33 Medak TDP Patlolla Manik Reddy INC Mogaligundla Baga Reddy BJP Ale Narendra
34 Nizamabad TDP Gaddam Ganga Reddy INC K. Keshava Rao BJP Atmacharan Reddy Gaddam
35 Adilabad TDP Samudrala Venugopal Chary INC Allola Indrakaran Reddy BJP Vishnu Prakash Bajaj
36 Peddapalli (SC) TDP Chellamalla Suguna Kumari INC Gaddam Venkatswamy BJP Lingaiah Kasipeta
37 Karimnagar TDP L. Ramana INC Meneni Satyanarayana Rao BJP C. Vidyasagar Rao
38 Hanamkonda TDP Chada Suresh Reddy INC Kamaluddin Ahmed NTDP S. Madhusudhana Chary
39 Warangal TDP Azmeera Chandulal INC T. Kalpana Devi BJP Chandupatla Janga Reddy
40 Khammam CPI(M) Tammineni Veerabhadram INC N. Bhaskara Rao BJP Dharavath Ravinder Naik
41 Nalgonda CPI Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy INC V. Hanumantha Rao BJP N. Indrasena Reddy
42 Miryalguda CPI(M) Cherupally Seetha Ramulu INC Baddam Narsimha Reddy BJP Juttukonda Satyanarayana

Voting and results

Alliance/ Party Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/−
INC 1,22,69,475 38.46 Decrease 1.20 42 22 Steady
UF TDP 1,01,99,463 31.97 Decrease 0.62 35 12 Decrease 4
CPI(M) 9,21,972 2.89 Decrease 0.02 3 0 Decrease 1
CPI 8,16,200 2.56 Increase 0.17 3 2 Steady
JD 2,78,302 0.87 Steady 1 1 Increase 1
Total 1,22,15,937 38.29 Steady 42 15 Steady
NDA BJP 58,36,394 18.30 Increase 12.65 36 + 2 4 Increase 4
NTDP 3,84,211 1.20 Decrease 9.46 3 + 2 0 Steady
Total 62,20,605 19.50 Steady 39 + 4 4 Steady
AIMIM 4,85,785 1.52 Increase 0.40 1 1 Steady
Others 1,69,531 0.54 Steady 55 0 Steady
IND 5,37,578 1.69 Decrease 2.11 207 0 Steady
Total 3,18,98,911 100% - 390 42 -

List of elected members

Constituency Winner Runner-up Margin
Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes % Votes %
1 Srikakulam Kinjarapu Yerrannaidu TDP 286,582 43.14 Appayya Dora Hanumanthu NTDP 200,217 30.14 86,365 13.00
2 Parvathipuram (ST) Vijaya Ramaraju Setrucharla TDP 299,904 50.55 Pradeep Kumar Dev Vyricherla INC 276,627 46.63 23,277 3.92
3 Bobbili Kondapalli Pydithalli Naidu TDP 298,961 43.89 Botcha Satyanarayana INC 272,053 39.94 26,908 3.95
4 Visakhapatnam Subbarami Reddy INC 375,782 42.21 Ananda Gajapathi Raju Pusapati TDP 314,265 35.30 61,517 6.91
5 Bhadrachalam (ST) Ramaiah Sode CPI 263,141 39.10 Karreddula Kamala Kumari INC 203,701 30.27 59,440 8.83
6 Anakapalli Gurunadha Rao Gudivada INC 321,840 43.96 Ayyanna Patrudu Chintakayala TDP 295,915 40.42 25,925 3.54
7 Kakinada Krishnamraju U.V. BJP 330,381 41.06 Gopala Krishna Thota TDP 262,582 32.63 67,799 8.43
8 Rajahmundry Girajala Venkata Swamy Naidu BJP 285,741 36.57 M. V. V. S. Murthi TDP 275,829 35.30 9,912 1.27
9 Amalapuram (SC) Ganti Mohana Chandra Balayogi TDP 286,953 43.57 K. S. R. Murthy INC 196,713 29.87 90,240 13.70
10 Narasapur Kanumuru Bapi Raju INC 368,630 50.66 Kothapalli Subbarayudu (Pedababu) TDP 320,660 44.07 47,970 6.59
11 Eluru Maganti Venkateswara Rao (Babu) INC 385,412 47.68 Bolla Bulli Ramaiah TDP 361,605 44.74 23,807 2.94
12 Machilipatnam Kavuru Sambasiva Rao INC 355,030 51.28 Kaikala Satyanarayana TDP 273,938 39.57 81,092 11.71
13 Vijayawada Upendra Parvathaneni INC 405,062 45.02 Jai Ramesh Dasari TDP 374,995 41.68 30,067 3.34
14 Tenali P. Shiv Shanker INC 290,014 46.34 Sarada Tadiparthi TDP 275,478 44.02 14,536 2.32
15 Guntur Rayapati Sambasiva Rao INC 359,456 47.79 Lal Jan Basha S. M. TDP 302,109 40.16 57,347 7.63
16 Bapatla Janardhana Reddy Nedurumalli INC 316,788 47.31 Ummareddy Venkateswarlu TDP 276,300 41.27 40,488 6.04
17 Narasaraopet Konijeti Rosaiah INC 375,815 50.22 Saidaiah Kota TDP 327,996 43.83 47,819 6.39
18 Ongole Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy INC 351,390 47.75 Rajamohan Reddy Mekapati TDP 330,524 44.92 20,866 2.83
19 Nellore (SC) Panabaka Lakshmi INC 296,731 40.06 Buduru Swarnalatha CPI(M) 250,204 33.78 46,527 6.28
20 Tirupathi (SC) Chintha Mohan INC 288,904 38.52 Dr. N. Sivaprasad TDP 279,558 37.27 9,346 1.25
21 Chittoor Nuthanakalva Ramakrishna Reddy TDP 349,831 45.13 Gnanendra Reddy M. INC 269,750 34.80 80,081 10.33
22 Rajampet Annaiahgari Sai Pratap INC 274,889 45.35 Gunipati Ramaiah TDP 226,993 37.45 47,896 7.90
23 Cuddapah Y. S. Rajasekhar Reddy INC 374,762 50.69 Kandula Rajamohana Reddy TDP 320,881 43.40 53,881 7.29
24 Hindupur S. Gangadhar INC 284,096 43.16 S. Ramachandra Reddy TDP 257,958 39.19 26,138 3.97
25 Anantapur Anantha Venkatarami Reddy INC 320,474 47.65 K. Ramakrishna CPI 238,076 35.40 82,398 12.25
26 Kurnool Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy INC 368,044 48.91 K. E. Krishnamurthy TDP 355,208 47.21 12,836 1.70
27 Nandyal Bhuma Nagi Reddy TDP 338,100 48.47 Gangula Prathapa Reddy INC 333,450 47.80 4,650 0.67
28 Nagarkurnool (SC) Dr. Mallu Ravi INC 329,127 42.82 Dr. Manda Jagannath TDP 309,452 40.26 19,675 2.56
29 Mahabubnagar S. Jaipal Reddy JD 278,302 37.25 Dr. Mallikarjun INC 255,661 34.22 22,641 3.03
30 Hyderabad Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi AIMIM 485,785 44.65 Baddam Bal Reddy BJP 414,173 38.07 71,612 6.58
31 Secunderabad Bandaru Dattatreya BJP 438,586 49.02 P. V. Rajeswar Rao INC 252,676 28.24 185,910 20.78
32 Siddipet (SC) Malyala Rajaiah TDP 348,194 35.30 Yellaiah Nandi INC 337,169 34.19 11,025 1.11
33 Medak M. Baga Reddy INC 269,122 34.12 Ale Narendra BJP 252,642 32.03 16,480 2.09
34 Nizamabad Gangareddy Gaddam TDP 281,851 38.48 Atmacharan Reddy Gaddam BJP 249,095 34.00 32,756 4.48
35 Adilabad Dr. S. Venugopala Chary TDP 291,168 39.49 Allola Indrakaran Reddy INC 257,634 34.94 33,534 4.55
36 Peddapalli (SC) C. Suguna Kumari TDP 322,801 39.71 G. Venkata Swamy INC 316,627 38.96 6,174 0.75
37 Karimnagar Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao BJP 329,030 42.83 Lgandula Ramana TDP 233,033 30.33 95,997 12.50
38 Hanamkonda Chada Suresh Reddy TDP 287,277 47.04 Kamaluddin Ahmed M. INC 241,786 39.59 45,491 7.45
39 Warangal Azmeera Chandulal TDP 323,093 41.43 Dr. T. Kalpana Devi INC 298,292 38.25 24,801 3.18
40 Khammam Nadendla Bhaskar Rao INC 363,747 40.30 Thammineni Veerabhadram CPI(M) 352,083 39.01 11,664 1.29
41 Nalgonda Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy CPI 314,983 35.18 Hanumanthrao V. INC 290,528 32.44 24,455 2.74
42 Miryalguda Baddam Narsimha Reddy INC 334,183 39.07 Cherupalli Seeta Ramulu CPI(M) 319,685 37.37 14,498 1.70

See also

References

  1. ^ "Past Election Results". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 20 May 2019.