Constituency
5. Visakhapatnam
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-VISAKHAPATNAM
TDP 50.0%won by 4.4%INC 45.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which now leads by 4.4%.
- TDP vote shareTDP went from 35.3% to 50.0% of the vote here (+14.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.5% of the vote between them, up from 77.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
14,20,606
Turnout
62.3%
Valid votes
8,84,861
Margin
38,919
4.40%
Candidates
6 contested · winner TDP- 1M.V.V.S.MurthyTelugu Desam Party · TDP4,42,03650.0%
- 2T.Subbarami ReddyIndian National Congress · INC4,03,11745.6%
- 3Ch.Narsinga RaoCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM26,6103.0%
- 4Navish Yadav(T.N.V.Murthi B.E.)Samajwadi Party · SP9,3771.1%
- 5Appa Rao GudivadaIndependent · IND2,2630.3%
- 6Nanduri PaniIndependent · IND1,4580.2%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- TDPflipped
- TDP–INC swing
- +11.3%
- TDP share
- 35.3% → 50.0%
- INC share
- 42.2% → 45.6%
- Turnout
- 64.0% → 62.3%