Constituency
16. Guntur
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-GUNTUR
INC 47.8%won by 7.6%TDP 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.3% to 7.6%.
- 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
12,64,693
Turnout
59.5%
Valid votes
7,52,220
Margin
57,347
7.62%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1RAYAPATI SAMBASIVA RAOIndian National Congress · INC3,59,45647.8%
- 2LAL JAN BASHA S.M.Telugu Desam Party · TDP3,02,10940.2%
- 3AVULA VEERASEKHARARAOBharatiya Janata Party · BJP82,19310.9%
- 4MURALISANKAR TATAIndependent · IND2,8410.4%
- 5NAGARJUNACHARYA MUPPALLABahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,2440.3%
- 6PANCHAKATLA VENKATA SUBBA RAOIndependent · IND1,0710.1%
- 7GUNDEBOINA SATYANARAYANASamajwadi Party · SP9610.1%
- 8MOKKAPATI VEERARAGHAVULUIndependent · IND6210.1%
- 9MUVVA VENKATRAOIndependent · IND3690.0%
- 10VIPPARLA KOTESWARARAOIndependent · IND1980.0%
- 11REDDY VENKATA SAMBASIVARAOIndependent · IND1570.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–TDP swing
- −1.7%
- INC share
- 46.8% → 47.8%
- TDP share
- 37.5% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- 57.7% → 59.5%