Constituency
254. Karimnagar
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1999
AP-KARIMNAGAR
TDP 43.2%won by 17.9%IND 25.3%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.4% to 17.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 25.3% — it polled just 0.3% in 1994.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.5% between them, down from 90.9% — the field split more ways.
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
1,35,931
Margin
24,312
17.89%
Candidates
9 contested · winner TDP- 1DEVENDER RAO KATARITelugu Desam Party · TDP58,74143.2%
- 2VELICHALA JAGAPATHI RAOIndependent · IND34,42925.3%
- 3SURESH RAO JUVVADIIndian National Congress · INC26,32519.4%
- 4CHINA MALLAIAH DESHINICommunist Party of India · CPI11,6078.5%
- 5SHAIK HABEEBUDDINIndependent · IND2,8602.1%
- 6JAMPALA NARSAIAHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7520.6%
- 7MOTHE GANGA REDDYIndependent · IND4810.4%
- 8LEO AUGUSTINEJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS4780.4%
- 9POLSANI GOPAL RAOIndependent · IND2580.2%
Since 1994
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–IND swing
- −36.5%
- TDP share
- 54.6% → 43.2%
- IND share
- 0.3% → 25.3%
- Turnout
- — → —