Constituency
8. Kakinada
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-KAKINADA
TDP 42.4%won by 5.3%INC 37.1%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.0% to 5.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.5% between them, down from 91.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.6% to 62.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,64,878
Turnout
62.5%
Valid votes
7,27,999
Margin
38,499
5.29%
Candidates
21 contested · winner TDP- 1GOPALAKRISHNA THOTATelugu Desam Party · TDP3,08,48042.4%
- 2THOTA SUBBA RAOIndian National Congress · INC2,69,98137.1%
- 3CHIKKALA RAMACHANDRARAONTRTDPLP · NTRTDPLP1,22,14916.8%
- 4B.S.R. KRISHNABharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,7511.8%
- 5MURTHY NAINALASETTYCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL5,0290.7%
- 6SENAPATI LOKABAANDAVARAOIndependent · IND1,2760.2%
- 7VENKATARAJU JYOTULAIndependent · IND1,2480.2%
- 8BADUGU SURYA NARAYANA MURTYIndependent · IND1,0140.1%
- 9SEPENI SURYARAOIndependent · IND8240.1%
- 10PATTAMATTA RAGHU RAMA RAOIndependent · IND7360.1%
- 11P. SUNDARAYYA YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP7140.1%
- 12DOKIBURRA RAJA RAOIndependent · IND6500.1%
- 13GIDLA SIMHACHALAMIndependent · IND6060.1%
- 14CHANDRAKANTH DODLAIndependent · IND4450.1%
- 15C. SUBHASHAIICT · AIICT4100.1%
- 16GURRAM KAMESWA RAOIndependent · IND4060.1%
- 17KUNCHE APPARAOIndependent · IND3610.0%
- 18EEGALA BALA KRISHNA RAOIndependent · IND3520.0%
- 19N. VENKANNABABU(GUPTA)(DAS PRAKASH BABU)Independent · IND2300.0%
- 20DUNDA SUBBARAJUIndependent · IND1750.0%
- 21DIMMALA NAGESWARA RAOIndependent · IND1620.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–INC swing
- −0.7%
- TDP share
- 48.9% → 42.4%
- INC share
- 42.8% → 37.1%
- Turnout
- 59.9% → 62.5%