Constituency
8. Kakinada
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-KAKINADA
BJP 41.1%won by 8.4%TDP 32.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.4%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 1.8% to 41.1% of the vote here (+39.3%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.7% between them, down from 79.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.9% to 69.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,59,644
Turnout
69.4%
Valid votes
8,04,652
Margin
67,799
8.43%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1KRISHNAMRAJU U.V.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,30,38141.1%
- 2GOPALA KRISHNA THOTATelugu Desam Party · TDP2,62,58232.6%
- 3MALLIPUDI MANGAPATHI PALLAMRAJUIndian National Congress · INC1,93,17824.0%
- 4MURTHY NAINALASETTYCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL8,6821.1%
- 5CHOLLANGI VENUBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,5490.4%
- 6PITTA SAHADEVUDUIndependent · IND2,3810.3%
- 7RAJARAO GOLLEPALLIIndependent · IND1,8740.2%
- 8PENTAPATI CHANDRASEKHARARAOIndependent · IND1,4560.2%
- 9VADAKATTU NEHRUIndependent · IND5690.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–TDP swing
- +49.0%
- BJP share
- 1.8% → 41.1%
- TDP share
- 42.4% → 32.6%
- Turnout
- 62.5% → 69.4%