Constituency
9. Rajahmundry
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-RAJAHMUNDRY
BJP 36.6%won by 1.3%TDP 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 1.3%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 1.4% to 36.6% of the vote here (+35.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.9% between them, down from 81.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.2% to 69.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,21,041
Turnout
69.7%
Valid votes
7,81,346
Margin
9,912
1.27%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1GIRAJALA VENKATA SWAMY NAIDUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,85,74136.6%
- 2M.V.V.S. MURTHITelugu Desam Party · TDP2,75,82935.3%
- 3T.V.SATYANARAYANA REDDYIndian National Congress · INC2,10,90127.0%
- 4M. DURGAPRASADIndependent · IND3,4400.4%
- 5BOYA PRASADIndependent · IND3,1670.4%
- 6KANUMILLI VENKANNA DORAIndependent · IND1,1180.1%
- 7ANAPARTHI GOPALA KRISHNAIndependent · IND5510.1%
- 8SATYAMSETTI NARAYANA RAOIndependent · IND3510.0%
- 9DAYANA RAMAKRISHNAIndependent · IND2480.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–TDP swing
- +34.0%
- BJP share
- 1.4% → 36.6%
- TDP share
- 34.2% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- 67.5% → 69.7%