Constituency
20. Nellore
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-NELLORE
INC 39.6%won by 10.0%CPM 29.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.6% to 10.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 29.6% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.2% between them, down from 83.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.4% to 57.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,82,875
Turnout
57.5%
Valid votes
6,80,230
Margin
68,185
10.02%
Candidates
18 contested · winner INC- 1PANABAKA LAKSHMIIndian National Congress · INC2,69,49839.6%
- 2TUMMALLAGUNTA PRAPANCHA BHANU RAJUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,01,31329.6%
- 3PASAM SUNEEL KUMARNTRTDPLP · NTRTDPLP1,03,94715.3%
- 4GADDAM LAKSHMI NARAYANABharatiya Janata Party · BJP83,58512.3%
- 5ATHINA RAMAIAHIndependent · IND3,8830.6%
- 6INDLURI ARAVINDA BABUIndependent · IND3,3560.5%
- 7ARAGALA IJAACIndependent · IND2,4170.4%
- 8M. VENKATESWARA RAOIndependent · IND2,2930.3%
- 9GODA KRISHNAIAHIndependent · IND1,6480.2%
- 10PANEM OBAIAHIndependent · IND1,6080.2%
- 11D. RAMAIAHIndependent · IND1,2770.2%
- 12UNDRALLA PRASADIndependent · IND1,1450.2%
- 13VELICHERLA VENKATA RAOIndependent · IND1,0830.2%
- 14JADDA MOHANIndependent · IND1,0060.1%
- 15ATHYALA ABRAHAMIndependent · IND6720.1%
- 16LEBURU NAGABHUSHANAMMAIndependent · IND6680.1%
- 17LEALLAPALLI ASEERVADAMIndependent · IND5080.1%
- 18D. MALAKONDAIAHIndependent · IND3230.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −35.7%
- INC share
- 45.7% → 39.6%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 29.6%
- Turnout
- 55.1% → 57.5%