Constituency
28. Nandyal
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-NANDYAL
TDP 48.5%won by 0.7%INC 47.8%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.1% to 0.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.3% of the vote between them, up from 65.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 4,650 votes (0.67%) — among the closest results anywhere.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,02,794
Turnout
63.3%
Valid votes
6,97,579
Margin
4,650
0.67%
Candidates
10 contested · winner TDP- 1BHUMA NAGI REDDYTelugu Desam Party · TDP3,38,10048.5%
- 2GANGULA PRATHAPA REDDYIndian National Congress · INC3,33,45047.8%
- 3SYED JAFFAR ALI KHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,8412.7%
- 4MUKKAMALLA CHANDRA SEKHAR REDDYIndependent · IND2,3100.3%
- 5SINGAM VENKATARAMI REDDYIndependent · IND1,0280.1%
- 6THUPAKULA VENKATESWARA RAOIndependent · IND1,0040.1%
- 7GANDHAM PEDDA RASI REDDYIndependent · IND9970.1%
- 8LINGAM RADHA KRISHNAIndependent · IND8550.1%
- 9GANDHAM SIVAKANTHA REDDYIndependent · IND7410.1%
- 10SINGAM VENKATESWAR REDDYIndependent · IND2530.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–INC swing
- −13.4%
- TDP share
- 39.7% → 48.5%
- INC share
- 25.7% → 47.8%
- Turnout
- 64.7% → 63.3%