Constituency
23. Rajampet
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-RAJAMPET
INC 45.4%won by 7.9%TDP 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.7% to 7.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.8% between them, down from 88.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.5% to 63.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,56,628
Turnout
63.4%
Valid votes
6,06,110
Margin
47,896
7.90%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1ANNAIAHGARI SAI PRATAPIndian National Congress · INC2,74,88945.4%
- 2GUNIPATI RAMAIAHTelugu Desam Party · TDP2,26,99337.5%
- 3DR. A.HARINATH REDDYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP94,31115.6%
- 4KOTAPATI VENKATA KRISHNAIAHIndependent · IND2,5120.4%
- 5P. GANGANNAIndependent · IND2,1010.3%
- 6D.MAHESWARA RAJUSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP1,4840.2%
- 7P.CHANDRA SEKHAR REDDYNTRTDPLP · NTRTDPLP1,3370.2%
- 8SHAIK SALAMIndependent · IND1,0300.2%
- 9SUBBARAYUDU THOMBAVARAPUIndependent · IND6110.1%
- 10RAMA CHANDRUDU YERRAMSETTYIndependent · IND6000.1%
- 11VARAGAMREDDY SUBBA REDDYIndependent · IND2420.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–TDP swing
- −0.8%
- INC share
- 48.4% → 45.4%
- TDP share
- 39.7% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- 58.9% → 63.4%