Constituency
242. Adilabad
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1999
AP-ADILABAD
TDP 53.8%won by 29.1%IND 24.7%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.8% to 29.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.5% of the vote between them, up from 67.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatTelugu Desam Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,20,863
Margin
35,226
29.15%
Candidates
7 contested · winner TDP- 1PADALA BHUMANNATelugu Desam Party · TDP65,05453.8%
- 2CHILKURI RAMCHANDAR REDDYIndependent · IND29,82824.7%
- 3GANDRATH SUJATHAIndian National Congress · INC16,23213.4%
- 4A.A. RAHEEMCommunist Party of India · CPI6,5245.4%
- 5ROKANDLA RAMESHIndependent · IND1,7021.4%
- 6PERELLI RADHAMCPIS · MCPIS1,1591.0%
- 7CHUNNU MIYAJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS3640.3%
Since 1994
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–IND swing
- +24.4%
- TDP share
- 36.1% → 53.8%
- IND share
- 31.3% → 24.7%
- Turnout
- — → —