Constituency
14. Vijayawada
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-VIJAYAWADA
INC 45.0%won by 3.3%TDP 41.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.0% to 3.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.7% of the vote between them, up from 77.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,45,242
Turnout
66.9%
Valid votes
8,99,683
Margin
30,067
3.34%
Candidates
18 contested · winner INC- 1UPENDRA PARVATHANENIIndian National Congress · INC4,05,06245.0%
- 2JAI RAMESH DASARITelugu Desam Party · TDP3,74,99541.7%
- 3VADDE RAMAKRISHNA PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,04,63011.6%
- 4NALLURI SUBBA RAOIndependent · IND3,7210.4%
- 5KAMAL KUMAR B.PBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,8470.3%
- 6SMT.VIDYA CHENNUPATIIndependent · IND2,2260.2%
- 7AMMESWARA RAO GUMMADIIndependent · IND1,1700.1%
- 8ESWARA RAO YELAMANCHILIIndependent · IND9900.1%
- 9DEVADAS SIRIPURAPUSJPR · SJPR8020.1%
- 10SMT. VIJAYA LAKSHMI VAGGALAIndependent · IND5030.1%
- 11NANDIGAM VISHNUAJBP · AJBP4590.1%
- 12YEDU KONDALU P.VIndependent · IND4180.0%
- 13ARLAGADDA BABU RAOIndependent · IND4090.0%
- 14ABRAHAM VARAPRASAD GUNDABATHINAIndependent · IND3860.0%
- 15KATAMRAJU YARAMIndependent · IND3790.0%
- 16ATLURI RAVINDRA PRASADIndependent · IND3490.0%
- 17AZIT KUMAR REDDY THAMMAIndependent · IND1900.0%
- 18BALA NAGESWARA RAO CHIGURUPATIIndependent · IND1470.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–TDP swing
- −9.6%
- INC share
- 45.2% → 45.0%
- TDP share
- 32.2% → 41.7%
- Turnout
- 65.2% → 66.9%