Constituency
38. Karimnagar
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-KARIMNAGAR
BJP 42.8%won by 12.5%TDP 30.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 12.5%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 7.9% to 42.8% of the vote here (+34.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.2% of the vote between them, up from 61.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.9% to 61.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,48,019
Turnout
61.5%
Valid votes
7,68,217
Margin
95,997
12.50%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1CHENNAMANENI VIDYASAGAR RAOBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,29,03042.8%
- 2LGANDULA RAMANATelugu Desam Party · TDP2,33,03330.3%
- 3MENENI SATYANARAYANA RAOIndian National Congress · INC1,86,80724.3%
- 4PURELLA RAMULUBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9,4571.2%
- 5GUNTI RAMESHIndependent · IND6,4840.8%
- 6ACHYUTHA RAJU,B.Independent · IND3,4060.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–TDP swing
- +39.2%
- BJP share
- 7.9% → 42.8%
- TDP share
- 34.6% → 30.3%
- Turnout
- 54.6% → 61.5%