Constituency
34. Medak
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-MEDAK
INC 34.1%won by 2.1%BJP 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.6% to 2.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.1% between them, down from 71.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.3% to 64.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,21,385
Turnout
64.6%
Valid votes
7,88,862
Margin
16,480
2.09%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1M.BAGA REDDYIndian National Congress · INC2,69,12234.1%
- 2ALE NARENDRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,52,64232.0%
- 3PATLOLLA MANIK REDDYTelugu Desam Party · TDP2,40,16630.4%
- 4GURUJADA BEERAIAH YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP12,4651.6%
- 5MOHD. WAHEED AHMEDBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8,6341.1%
- 6GANTA BABUIndependent · IND2,0660.3%
- 7C.MANIK RAOJTP · JTP1,9070.2%
- 8C. BHAGYA REKHAIndependent · IND1,5360.2%
- 9L.MURALIDHARIndependent · IND3240.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −15.5%
- INC share
- 37.4% → 34.1%
- BJP share
- 19.9% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- 62.3% → 64.6%