Constituency
17. Bapatla
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-BAPATLA
TDP 55.8%won by 12.9%INC 42.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which now leads by 12.9%.
- TDP vote shareTDP went from 41.3% to 55.8% of the vote here (+14.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.8% of the vote between them, up from 88.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.8% to 66.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,77,815
Turnout
66.4%
Valid votes
7,15,681
Margin
92,457
12.92%
Candidates
7 contested · winner TDP- 1D. Rama NaiduTelugu Desam Party · TDP3,99,59655.8%
- 2Jesudasu SeelamIndian National Congress · INC3,07,13942.9%
- 3Venkateswarlu KatharuATDP · ATDP4,8520.7%
- 4Bachina Radha Krishna MurthyIndependent · IND1,9220.3%
- 5Gurava Reddy ValiNTRTDPLP · NTRTDPLP1,2560.2%
- 6Chunduri RamaiahIndependent · IND5190.1%
- 7Modadugu Ramesh BabuIndependent · IND3970.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- TDPflipped
- TDP–INC swing
- +19.0%
- TDP share
- 41.3% → 55.8%
- INC share
- 47.3% → 42.9%
- Turnout
- 62.6% → 66.4%