Constituency
36. Adilabad
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-ADILABAD
TDP 39.5%won by 4.5%INC 34.9%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.6% to 4.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.4% between them, down from 80.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.3% to 68.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,78,788
Turnout
68.3%
Valid votes
7,37,375
Margin
33,534
4.55%
Candidates
7 contested · winner TDP- 1DR.S.VENUGOPALA CHARYTelugu Desam Party · TDP2,91,16839.5%
- 2ALLOLA INDRAKARAN REDDYIndian National Congress · INC2,57,63434.9%
- 3VISHNU PRAKASH BAJAJBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,79,13424.3%
- 4ADDI BHOJA REDDYIndependent · IND4,1450.6%
- 5JADI NARSAIAHIndependent · IND3,8000.5%
- 6NETAVATH RAMDASIndependent · IND8780.1%
- 7SOORAM GANGAREDDYIndependent · IND6160.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–INC swing
- −1.1%
- TDP share
- 43.0% → 39.5%
- INC share
- 37.4% → 34.9%
- Turnout
- 62.0% → 68.3%