Constituency
21. Tirupathi
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-TIRUPATHI
INC 38.5%won by 1.2%TDP 37.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.0% to 1.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.8% between them, down from 85.7% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,87,901
Turnout
63.1%
Valid votes
7,49,990
Margin
9,346
1.25%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1CHINTHA MOHANIndian National Congress · INC2,88,90438.5%
- 2DR. N. SIVAPRASADTelugu Desam Party · TDP2,79,55837.3%
- 3N.VENKATASWAMYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,78,77323.8%
- 4PARI ANANDA RAOIndependent · IND1,5550.2%
- 5K.PRABHAKARIndependent · IND1,2000.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–TDP swing
- −5.8%
- INC share
- 46.4% → 38.5%
- TDP share
- 39.3% → 37.3%
- Turnout
- 61.5% → 63.1%