Constituency
15. Tenali
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-TENALI
TDP 44.2%won by 5.9%INC 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.9% to 5.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.5% between them, down from 93.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.9% to 64.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,61,992
Turnout
64.5%
Valid votes
6,20,616
Margin
36,488
5.88%
Candidates
20 contested · winner TDP- 1SARADA TADIPARTHITelugu Desam Party · TDP2,74,24444.2%
- 2SINGAM BASAVAPUNAIAHIndian National Congress · INC2,37,75638.3%
- 3AMBATI BRHAMANAIAHNTRTDPLP · NTRTDPLP72,83111.7%
- 4RAGHUNADH BABU YEDLAPATIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,4882.3%
- 5V. SATYANARAYANA SWAMYIndependent · IND3,5830.6%
- 6SOMESWARA RAO PARCHURICpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL3,1800.5%
- 7M. VINAY BABUAIICT · AIICT2,8130.5%
- 8R. SRIHARI MURTHYIndependent · IND1,9480.3%
- 9V. MADHAVA RAOIndependent · IND1,6860.3%
- 10T.CHINNA PULLAREDDYIndependent · IND1,2620.2%
- 11NUTHAKKI KATAIAHIndependent · IND1,1700.2%
- 12PALADIGU RAJENDRAPRASADIndependent · IND1,0270.2%
- 13KAMINENI KOTESWARA RAOIndependent · IND8060.1%
- 14KURRA BUTCHI BABUIndependent · IND7740.1%
- 15NANDURI JAIRAJUIndependent · IND7080.1%
- 16PRASAD PERIKALAIndependent · IND5520.1%
- 17SABBINENI RAMESHIndependent · IND5300.1%
- 18DASU MANILLAIndependent · IND5200.1%
- 19NIRIKHSHANA RAO I.Independent · IND4940.1%
- 20SURYAVARA PRASAD RAO S.Independent · IND2440.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–INC swing
- +4.0%
- TDP share
- 47.7% → 44.2%
- INC share
- 45.8% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- 59.7% → 64.5%