Constituency
42. Nalgonda
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-NALGONDA
CPI 35.2%won by 2.7%INC 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.6% to 2.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 67.6% of the vote between them, up from 57.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.7% to 64.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,95,535
Turnout
64.2%
Valid votes
8,95,448
Margin
24,455
2.73%
Candidates
11 contested · winner CPI- 1SURAVARAM SUDHAKAR REDDYCommunist Party of India · CPI3,14,98335.2%
- 2HANUMANTHRAO.VIndian National Congress · INC2,90,52832.4%
- 3INDRA SENA REDDY NALLUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,74,17430.6%
- 4JANGA REDDY PINNINTIJTP · JTP3,9400.4%
- 5BATTU RAMCHANDRAIAHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,3600.3%
- 6GUMMI BAKKA REDDYIndependent · IND2,2780.3%
- 7T.RAJESHWARIIndependent · IND1,8220.2%
- 8POOSA SRINIVASShiv Sena · SHS1,6300.2%
- 9DAMIDI REDDY SURENDRAIndependent · IND1,3370.1%
- 10ANUGU NARASIMHA REDDYIndependent · IND1,3150.1%
- 11SHAHINA ALLADINIndependent · IND1,0810.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −6.6%
- CPI share
- 33.2% → 35.2%
- INC share
- 23.9% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- 58.5% → 64.2%