Constituency
22. Chittoor
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-CHITTOOR
TDP 45.1%won by 10.3%INC 34.8%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.7% to 10.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.9% between them, down from 93.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,23,338
Turnout
69.0%
Valid votes
7,75,143
Margin
80,081
10.33%
Candidates
8 contested · winner TDP- 1NUTHANAKALVA RAMAKRISHNA REDDYTelugu Desam Party · TDP3,49,83145.1%
- 2GNANENDRA REDDY.MIndian National Congress · INC2,69,75034.8%
- 3N.P.VENKATESWARA CHOWDARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,47,86119.1%
- 4KIRAN KUMAR.MIndependent · IND2,9000.4%
- 5MANOHARIndependent · IND2,1470.3%
- 6DHANASEGHARAN.VIndependent · IND1,4670.2%
- 7C.R. ESWARA MOORTHYRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD6420.1%
- 8VISWANATHA REDDY.AIndependent · IND5450.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–INC swing
- +2.6%
- TDP share
- 50.8% → 45.1%
- INC share
- 43.1% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- 70.4% → 69.0%