1996 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh

none June 2019 June 2019 1996 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh India parliamentary no 1991 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh 1991 1998 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh 1998 April–May 1996 42 seats Konijeti Rosaiah BNC.jpg 100 100 120 0 0 Konijeti Rosaiah None Indian National Congress Congress alliance 22 3 12,087,596 39.66% – 25 13 new party N. Chandrababu Naidu (cropped)1.jpg 100 100 120 0 0 Chandrababu Naidu Telugu Desam Party United Front None 16 3 11,548,398 37.89% 1.33 Lakshmiparvathi.jpeg 100 100 120 0 7 Lakshmi Parvathi NTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) Nonpartisan candidate None 0 – 3,249,267 10.66% 10.66% Andhra Pradesh in India (1956-2014).png 200px Andhra Pradesh Prime Minister Prime Minister after election P. V. Narasimha Rao Indian National Congress Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bharatiya Janata Party The 1996 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh were held for 42 seats in the state. The result was a victory for the Indian National Congress which won 22 out of 42 seats.https://www.eci.gov.in/past-elections-statistics/ Past Election Results Election Commission of India en-IN 2019-05-20 This was the first election contested by the TDP since its leader Chandrababu Naidu ousted the party founder N. T. Rama Rao in a palace coup in August 1995 and the latter's untimely death a few months later. Background In August 1995, Nara Chandrababu Naidu overthrew the Government of Andhra Pradesh formed by the actor-turned-politician N. T. Rama Rao (NTR) in a coup d'état. With the support of 178–190 MLAsScholars presented varied numbers between 178Andersen 1996 170Reddy 2002 873 and 190.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2452 and NTR's family, Naidu forced NTR to resign and formed his own government. This led to a division in the Telugu Desam Party, founded by NTR, splitting in two camps – Telugu Desam Party (NTR) (TDP (NTR)) and Telugu Desam Party (Naidu) (TDPN) – the former headed by NTR and the later by Chandrababu Naidu, who is also the son-in-law to NTR.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2452Menon Vandana 2018-03-09 Founded by movie legend NTR, Telugu Desam Party has always punched above its weight https://theprint.in/theprint-essential/founded-ntr-tdp-punched-above-its-weight/40380/ 2023-04-23 ThePrint en-US Parties and alliances Alliance/Party Flag Symbol LeaderSeats contestedUnited Front Telugu Desam Party50x50pxcenter|50x50px N. Chandrababu Naidu 3642 Communist Party of India (Marxist)50x50px50x50px Harkishan Singh Surjeet 3Communist Party of India50x50pxcenter|50x50px Sudhakar Reddy 3Indian National Congress50x50px50x50pxY. S. Rajasekhara Reddy 42NTR Telugu Desam Party (LP)center|50x50pxcenter|50px Lakshmi Parvathi42Bharatiya Janata Party50x50px50x50pxV. Rama Rao39All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen50x50px50x50px Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi1 Scholars view three groups to be dominating contestants in the majority of the constituencies – the Congress, Naidu's TDP faction and its allies, and Parvathi's TDP faction and its allies.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454 Congress (I) The Indian National Congress maintained a monopoly in the power structure in the state since its inception in 1956 until 1983 when NTR-led TDP won the 1983 Assembly elections.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2450 The sudden death of NTR followed by the split in TDP into TDPN and TDPLP significantly increased the opportunities for the Indian National Congress (I). The party's strategy to retain power at the national level relied on securing a considerable proportion of seats from the state. Congress sustained a reliable support in the state, in the form of one-third voters being its supporters, during the NTR-era since 1983 led to confidence buildup among its leadership of victory in the elections that the party made little effort to reconcile its internal differences. The then Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao hailed from the state and thus raised the stakes of the political future for the party in the state.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2453 Telugu Desam Party (Naidu) Nara Chandrababu Naidu saw this election as an opportunity to cement his credibility and legitimacy as the political successor to NTR. It also marked the first time Naidu leading his party into an election and had high stakes for the party's future. The Election Commission of India acknowledged his faction as the authentic Telugu Desam Party and assigned the bicycle symbol that the original TDP used. The left parties – Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) – which were allies with TDP since 1984, allied with TDPN.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2452-2453 Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) Following NTR's death on 18 January 1996, the TDP (NTR) fell into the hands of his second-wife, Lakshmi Parvathi. The party was renamed Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) (TDPLP).Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2452 Janata Dal, a member of the National Front coalition, supported her campaign largely as a sign of commemorating NTR, who headed the coalition.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2452-2453 Others Other political parties had no significant extent in the state. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) were restricted to the twin cities of Hyderabad–Secunderabad. The BJP, despite contesting in 40 constituencies in the 1991 general elections, was able to win only in Secunderabad. However, it received a considerable amount of vote share in the state, particularly in the Telangana region. The Janata Dal was deteriorated of its support base.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2453 Candidates Caste formed one of the fundamental criteria in the selection of the candidates.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454 Out of 42 seats, 34 are in the general category with the rest being reserved. The Congress nominated 12 candidates, in the general category, belonging to the Reddys. The TDPLP nominated 12 Kammas and 10 Reddys and was thus perceived as an upper caste party. The TDPN, apart from nominating several Reddys and Kammas, followed the NTR's strategy of enticing the Other Backward Class (OBC), who accounted for 44 percent in the state's population, and nominated 9 OBC candidates.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454 The Congress and the TDP considered caste considerations in nominations while the TDPLP chose to nominate the wealthy and influential candidates of the forward castes in constituencies where they are not dominant, even though the OBCs were considered to play a key role in the battle between the two TDP factions. Scholars argue that the TDPLP lacked any political strategy and sought candidates who held more sway in their respective constituencies.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454 List of Candidates ConstituencyINCTDP+NTR-TDP(LP)BJP # Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate1SrikakulamIndian National CongressKanithi ViswanathamTelugu Desam PartyKinjarapu Yerran NaiduNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPMandamuri Jaya Krishna Bharatiya Janata PartyKrishna Chandra Rao Namballa2Parvathipuram (ST)Indian National CongressPradeep Kumar Dev VyricherlaTelugu Desam PartyViswasarai Narasimha RaoNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPSatrucharla Vijaya Rama RajuBharatiya Janata PartyChukka Mahalaxmi3BobbiliIndian National CongressBotcha SatyanarayanaTelugu Desam PartyKondapalli Pydithalli NaiduNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPGadde BaburaoBharatiya Janata PartyReddi Satarao4VisakhapatnamIndian National CongressT. Subbarami ReddiTelugu Desam PartyPusapati Ananda Gajapati RajuNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPM. Venkata RaoBharatiya Janata PartyAlwardas Sunkari5Bhadrachalam (ST)Indian National CongressKamala Kumari KarredulaCommunist Party of IndiaSode RamaiahNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPSetty LaxmanuduBharatiya Janata PartyKurusa Bojjaiah6AnakapalliIndian National CongressKonathala RamakrishnaTelugu Desam PartyChintakayala Ayyanna PatruduNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPMalla SambasivaraoBharatiya Janata PartyGottumukkala Srihariraju7KakinadaIndian National CongressThota Subba RaoTelugu Desam PartyThota Gopala KrishnaNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPChikkala RamachandraraoBharatiya Janata PartyB. S. R. Krishna8RajahmundryIndian National CongressChitturi RavindraTelugu Desam PartyChundru Srihari RaoNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPGorantla Butchaiah ChowdaryBharatiya Janata PartyKantipudi Sarvarayudu9Amalapuram (SC)Indian National CongressK. S. R. MurthyTelugu Desam PartyG. M. C. BalayogiNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPPalli Babu MohanBharatiya Janata PartyAyyaji Vema Manepalli10NarasapurIndian National CongressKanumuri Bapi RajuTelugu Desam PartyKothapalli SubbarayuduNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPKalidindi Krishnam Raju (Suchitra)Bharatiya Janata PartyVenkata Satyanarayana Paka11EluruIndian National CongressMaganti Venkateswara RaoTelugu Desam PartyBolla Buli RamaiahNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPPentapati PullaraoDid not contest12MachilipatnamIndian National CongressKolusu Peda ReddaiahTelugu Desam PartyKaikala SatyanarayanaNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPBoppana Gangadhara ChowdaryBharatiya Janata PartyR. S. K. Nageswara Rao13VijayawadaIndian National CongressP. UpendraTelugu Desam PartyVadde Sobhanadreeswara RaoNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPDevineni NehruBharatiya Janata PartyM. D. Rama Rao14TenaliIndian National CongressSingam BasavapunaiahTelugu Desam PartySarada TadiparthiNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPAmbati BrahmanaiahBharatiya Janata PartyRaghunadh Babu Yedlapati15GunturIndian National CongressRayapati Sambasiva RaoTelugu Desam PartyS. M. Laljan BashaNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPMakineni Peda RathaiahBharatiya Janata PartyHanumantha Rao Muddana16BapatlaIndian National CongressVijaya Prad AryaTelugu Desam PartyUmmareddy VenkateswarluNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPLaavu RathaiahBharatiya Janata PartyVemula Mohana Rao17NarasaraopetIndian National CongressK. V. Krishna ReddyTelugu Desam PartySaidaiah KotaNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPK. Peda Peri ReddyBharatiya Janata PartySrihari Rao Muvvala18OngoleIndian National CongressMagunta ParvathammaTelugu Desam PartyMekapati Rajamohan ReddyNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPGutta Venkata SubbaiahBharatiya Janata PartyA. Samuel George19Nellore (SC)Indian National CongressPanabaka LakshmiCommunist Party of India (Marxist)Tummallagunta Prapancha Bhanu RajuNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPPasam Sunil KumarBharatiya Janata PartyGaddam Lakshmi Narayana20Tirupathi (SC)Indian National CongressNelavala SubrahmanyamTelugu Desam PartyGali RajasreeNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPM. MurugaiahBharatiya Janata PartyKadiveti Pattabhi21ChittoorIndian National CongressD. K. Adikesavulu NaiduTelugu Desam PartyN. Ramakrishna ReddyNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPGali Muddu Krishnama NaiduBharatiya Janata PartyA. Surendra Babu22RajampetIndian National CongressAnnayyagari Sai PrathapTelugu Desam PartyPothuraju PrathapNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPSunku BalaramBharatiya Janata PartySyed Hussain Shakeel23CuddapahIndian National CongressY. S. Rajasekhara ReddyTelugu Desam PartyKandula Raja Mohana ReddyNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPAhmed HussainBharatiya Janata PartyM. Lakshmi Narasaiah24HindupurIndian National CongressS. GangadharTelugu Desam PartyS. Ramachandra ReddyNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPG. NagireddyBharatiya Janata PartyG. N. Seshagiri Rao25AnantapurIndian National CongressAnantha Venkatarami ReddyCommunist Party of IndiaR. RangappaNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPV. Prabhakar ChowdaryBharatiya Janata PartyVeluri Kesava Chowdari26KurnoolIndian National CongressKotla Vijaya Bhaskara ReddyTelugu Desam PartyS. V. Subba ReddyNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPD. Vishnuvardhan ReddyBharatiya Janata PartyPanchagnula Mallikharjuna Sastry27NandyalIndian National CongressP. V. Narasimha RaoTelugu Desam PartyBhuma Nagi ReddyNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPByreddy Seshasayana ReddyDid not contest28Nagarkurnool (SC)Indian National CongressMallu RaviTelugu Desam PartyM. JagannathNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPIndiraBharatiya Janata PartyP. Dharam Pal 29MahabubnagarIndian National CongressMallikarjun GoudTelugu Desam PartyD. K. ArunaNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPA. P. Jithender ReddyBharatiya Janata PartyR. Ravindranath Reddy 30HyderabadIndian National CongressP. Sudhakar ReddyTelugu Desam PartyT. Krishna ReddyNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPP. Mahender ReddyBharatiya Janata PartyM. Venkaiah Naidu31SecunderabadIndian National CongressP. V. Rajeshwar RaoTelugu Desam PartyM. Ramchander Rao NTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPN. Prakash Rao Bharatiya Janata PartyBandaru Dattatreya32Siddipet (SC)Indian National CongressNandi YellaiahTelugu Desam PartyG. Vijaya RamaraoNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPSarve SatyanarayanaBharatiya Janata PartyBalaram Puli33MedakIndian National CongressMogaligundla Baga ReddyTelugu Desam PartyPatlolla Manik ReddyNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPG. Laxmi Narsinga RaoBharatiya Janata PartyAle Narendra34NizamabadIndian National CongressAtmacharan ReddyTelugu Desam PartyMandava Venkateshwara RaoNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPVemula Surender ReddyBharatiya Janata PartyP. Hambhant Reddy 35AdilabadIndian National CongressAllola Indrakaran ReddyTelugu Desam PartySamudrala Venugopal CharyNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPGona Venkat Amshuman RaoBharatiya Janata PartyKoripelli Narayan Reddy36Peddapalli (SC)Indian National CongressGaddam VenkatswamyTelugu Desam PartySuddala DevaiahNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPMathangi NarsaiahDid not contest37KarimnagarIndian National CongressJ. Chokka RaoTelugu Desam PartyL. RamanaNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPGaddam Vinod ReddyBharatiya Janata PartyEdavalli Jagga Reddy38HanamkondaIndian National CongressKamaluddin AhmedTelugu Desam PartyBaswa Reddy AdaboinaNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPChada Suresh ReddyBharatiya Janata PartyJayapal Vonteru39WarangalIndian National CongressSurendra ReddyTelugu Desam PartyAzmeera ChandulalNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPM. A. Rawoof (Jameel)Bharatiya Janata PartyChandupatla Janga Reddy40KhammamIndian National CongressP. V. Rangayya NaiduCommunist Party of India (Marxist)Tammineni VeerabhadramNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPNageswara Rao KoneruBharatiya Janata PartyJayachandra Reddy Reddyvari41NalgondaIndian National CongressGangadhar TirunagaruuCommunist Party of IndiaDharma BhikshamNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPVenreddy Narender ReddyBharatiya Janata PartyN. Indrasena Reddy42MiryalgudaIndian National CongressBaddam Narsimha ReddyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)Mallu SwarajyamNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) NTDPGattu Madhusudhan RaoBharatiya Janata PartyRamineni Prabhakar Campaign Congress' campaign The Congress party displayed clear signs of complacency. The party did not announce any new initiatives and suffered from the lack of any captivating leader. It was constantly hampered by internal divisions and the rivalry between them which at times led to suspensions of several high-ranking members. Scholars studying the election and the proceedings surrounding it argue that the party was merely anticipating to reap the benefits arising out of the conflict between the two TDP divisions – TDPLP and TDPN;Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454 they inferred that projections in India Today of winning 40 seats if the party was able to sustain its support base from the previous general election held in 1991 in the state,30 April 1996 Andhra Pradesh TDP split could benefit the Congress(I) significantly https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/19960430-kjs-764185-2012-10-17 2023-05-15 India Today en further fuelled its overconfidence.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454 Chandrababu Naidu's campaign Naidu's strategy involved thorough planning and its execution. He spared no effort to showcase his association with NTR and his policies. Rhetoric involving NTR's pictures was widely deployed as a tool to appeal to the voter-base. NTR's speeches in which he praised Naidu were cherrypicked and played throughout the campaign. One such recordings was from 1984, when NTR was re-instated as the chief minister after the coup, and lauded Naidu for his immense efforts made to reinstate him, was the most often used.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2452-2453 Naidu fell short of Parvathi in terms of diction and crowd-pulling capabilities. To counter this, he used the medium of satellite television networks and thus expanded his reach into the far-flung communities. He directed the MLAs of his party into active campaigning supervision in their respective constituencies. He made all efforts to portray to the public that he was maintaining the populist welfare policies that NTR put into action.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2452-2453 Lakshmi Parvathi's campaign Akin to NTR's political journey, she started her campaign in Tirupati aboard "Taraka Rama Chaitanya Ratham", a campaign vehicle resembling the popular "Chaitanya Ratham" used by NTR, and toured around the state. Her oratorial skills drawing huge crowds to her campaign despite a lack of charisma that NTR commanded. She portrayed the coup as an injustice to NTR and called upon the electorate to defeat the "back-stabbers" in the polls. She used the metaphor "Naraasura Samhaaram" (killing of demon named Nara), referring to Nara Chandrababu Naidu. The emotional appeal of playing a voice recording of NTR, in which he refers to Naidu and the MLAs who backed him during the coup as "traitors", was often employed.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2452-2453 She presented herself as "anti-Naidu" but never as "anti-Congress", one of the main ideologies of NTR. This led to speculations that she would support Congress after the elections. Observing the response to her campaign and the sympathy she had gained among the populace following NTR's death, political analysts predicted her decisive victory in the elections. As time progressed, her party witnessed a significant exodus of politicians who played a major role in facilitating NTR's politics down at the local level. There were also hardly any competent leaders at the mid-level in the party.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2452-2453 List of elected members Constituency Winner Runner Up Margin % # Name Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %1SrikakulamKinjarapu Yerran NaiduTelugu Desam PartyTDP234,27836.82Jaya Krishna MandamuriNTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi)NTDP199,70031.3834,5785.442Parvathipuram (ST)Pradeep Kumar Dev VyricherlaIndian National CongressINC231,18839.95Viswasarai Narasimha RaoTelugu Desam PartyTDP222,90038.528,2881.433BobbiliKondapalli Pydithalli NaiduTelugu Desam PartyTDP276,29844.16Botsa SatyanarayanaIndian National CongressINC255,33140.8120,9673.354VisakhapatnamT. Subbarami ReddyIndian National CongressINC365,70043.91Pusapati Ananda Gajapati RajuTelugu Desam PartyTDP358,24143.017,4590.905Bhadrachalam (ST)Sode RamaiahCommunist Party of IndiaCPI245,21437.69Kamala Kumari KarredulaIndian National CongressINC217,80633.4827,4084.216AnakapalliChintakayala Ayyanna PatruduTelugu Desam PartyTDP327,29048.04Konathala RamakrishnaIndian National CongressINC277,11840.6750,1727.377KakinadaThota Gopala KrishnaTelugu Desam PartyTDP308,48042.37Thota Subba RaoIndian National CongressINC269,98137.0938,4995.288RajahmundryChitturi RavindraIndian National CongressINC353,86146.78Chundru Srihari RaoTelugu Desam PartyTDP258,69534.2095,16612.589Amalapuram (SC)K. S. R. MurthyIndian National CongressINC245,47739.51G. M. C. BalayogiTelugu Desam PartyTDP216,34634.8229,1314.6910NarasapurKothapalli SubbarayuduTelugu Desam PartyTDP304,53642.91Kanumuri Bapi RajuIndian National CongressINC286,91040.4317,6262.4811EluruBolla Bulli RamaiahTelugu Desam PartyTDP333,16742.75Maganti Venkateswara RaoIndian National CongressINC331,53242.541,6350.2112MachilipatnamKaikala SatyanarayanaTelugu Desam PartyTDP275,71339.57Kolusu Peda ReddaiahIndian National CongressINC194,20627.8781,50711.7013VijayawadaP. UpendraIndian National CongressINC397,70945.16Vadde Sobhanadreeswara RaoTelugu Desam PartyTDP283,43532.18114,27412.9814TenaliSarada TadiparthiTelugu Desam PartyTDP274,24444.19Singam BasavapunaiahIndian National CongressINC237,75638.3136,4885.8815GunturRayapati Sambasiva RaoIndian National CongressINC343,25246.82S. M. Laljan BashaTelugu Desam PartyTDP274,75337.4768,4999.3516BapatlaUmmareddy VenkateswarluTelugu Desam PartyTDP276,06441.51Vijaya Prad AryaIndian National CongressINC267,80240.278,2621.2417NarasaraopetSaidaiah KotaTelugu Desam PartyTDP316,36044.28K. V. Krishna ReddyIndian National CongressINC297,40241.6318,9582.6518OngoleMagunta ParvathammaIndian National CongressINC381,47550.42Mekapati Rajamohan ReddyTelugu Desam PartyTDP331,41543.8050,0606.6219Nellore (SC)Panabaka LakshmiIndian National CongressINC269,49839.62Tummallagunta Prapancha Bhanu RajuCommunist Party of India (Marxist)CPI(M)201,31329.5968,18510.0320Tirupati (SC)Nelavala SubrahmanyamIndian National CongressINC344,73846.38Gali RajasreeTelugu Desam PartyTDP292,40639.3452,3327.0421ChittoorNuthanakalva Ramakrishna ReddyTelugu Desam PartyTDP405,05250.80D. K. Adikesavulu NaiduIndian National CongressINC343,70243.1061,3507.7022RajampetSai Prathap AnnayyagariIndian National CongressINC280,55748.42Pothuraju PrathapTelugu Desam PartyTDP230,16539.7250,3928.7023CuddapahY. S. Rajasekhara ReddyIndian National CongressINC368,61148.75Kandula Raja Mohana ReddyTelugu Desam PartyTDP363,16648.035,4450.7224HindupurS. Ramachandra ReddyTelugu Desam PartyTDP353,88051.10S. GangadharIndian National CongressINC181,45826.20172,42224.9025AnantapurAnantha Venkatarami ReddyIndian National CongressINC284,84544.60R. RangappaCommunist Party of IndiaCPI205,98632.2578,85912.3526KurnoolKotla Vijaya Bhaskara ReddyIndian National CongressINC323,20846.43S. V. Subba ReddyTelugu Desam PartyTDP290,38941.7232,8194.7127NandyalP. V. Narasimha RaoIndian National CongressINC366,43150.42Bhuma Nagi ReddyTelugu Desam PartyTDP267,90136.8698,53013.5628Nagarkurnool (SC)Manda JagannathTelugu Desam PartyTDP368,13448.68Mallu RaviIndian National CongressINC291,75938.5876,37510.1029MahabubnagarMallikarjun GoudIndian National CongressINC259,87535.79D. K. ArunaTelugu Desam PartyTDP254,37735.035,4980.7630HyderabadSultan Salahuddin OwaisiAll India Majlis-e-Ittehadul MuslimeenAIMIM321,04534.57M. Venkaiah NaiduBharatiya Janata PartyBJP247,77226.6873,2737.8931SecunderabadP. V. Rajeshwar RaoIndian National CongressINC420,66048.78Bandaru DattatreyaBharatiya Janata PartyBJP206,30223.92214,35824.8632Siddipet (SC)Nandi YellaiahIndian National CongressINC416,73346.13G. Vijaya RamaraoTelugu Desam PartyTDP328,76636.3987,9679.7433MedakMogaligundla Baga ReddyIndian National CongressINC286,27837.42Patlolla Manik ReddyTelugu Desam PartyTDP258,78933.8327,4893.5934NizamabadAtmacharan ReddyIndian National CongressINC293,24443.28Mandava Venkateshwara RaoTelugu Desam PartyTDP249,64536.8443,5996.4435AdilabadSamudrala Venugopal CharyTelugu Desam PartyTDP286,47743.05Allola Indrakaran ReddyIndian National CongressINC249,11737.4437,3605.6136Peddapalli (SC)Gaddam VenkatswamyIndian National CongressINC313,49844.84Suddala DevaiahTelugu Desam PartyTDP248,03335.4865,4659.3637KarimnagarL. RamanaTelugu Desam PartyTDP235,34334.64J. Chokka RaoIndian National CongressINC183,58227.0251,7617.6238HanamkondaKamaluddin AhmedIndian National CongressINC218,25638.66Baswa Reddy AdaboinaTelugu Desam PartyTDP142,68625.2875,57013.3839WarangalAzmeera ChandulalTelugu Desam PartyTDP292,88739.85Surendra ReddyIndian National CongressINC275,44737.4717,4402.3840KhammamTammineni VeerabhadramCommunist Party of India (Marxist)CPI(M)374,67542.82P. V. Rangayya NaiduIndian National CongressINC311,38435.5963,2917.2341NalgondaDharma BhikshamCommunist Party of IndiaCPI277,33633.22N. Indrasena ReddyBharatiya Janata PartyBJP205,57924.6271,7578.6042MiryalgudaBaddam Narsimha ReddyIndian National CongressINC355,92443.21Mallu SwarajyamCommunist Party of India (Marxist)CPI(M)312,04837.8843,8765.33 By-Elections Held ConstituencyWinnerRunner UpMargin No. Name Date Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %26Nandyal1996Bhuma Nagi ReddyTelugu Desam Party567,04280.94P. V. Rangayya NaiduIndian National Congress126,89218.11440,150The 1996 Nandyal Lok Sabha by-election saw the Telugu Desam Party gain the seat from the Indian National Congress Voting and results Results by alliance Alliance/ Party Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/− Indian National CongressINC 1,20,87,596 39.66 5.89 42 22 3 rowspan="4" Telugu Desam Party TDP+ Telugu Desam Party TDP 99,31,826 32.59 0.33 36 16 3 Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) 8,88,036 2.91 0.48 3 1 Communist Party of India CPI 7,28,536 2.39 0.52 3 2 1 Total 1,15,48,398 37.89 42 19 NTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi)NTR-TDP(LP) 32,49,267 10.66 42 0 Bharatiya Janata PartyBJP 17,20,850 5.65 3.89 39 0 1 All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul MuslimeenAIMIM 3,40,070 1.12 0.66 2 1 Other Others 3,69,940 1.22 70 0 Independent (politician) IND 11,58,741 3.80 0.30 1225 0 Total 3,04,74,862 100% - 1462 42 - Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Andhra Pradesh #NameConstituencyDesignationDepartmentFromToParty1Kinjarapu Yerran NaiduSrikakulamCabinet MinisterRural Areas andEmployment1 June199621 April1997Telugu Desam Party 1421 April199719 March19982Bolla Bulli RamaiahEluruMoS(I/C)Commerce29 June199621 April199721 April199719 March1998Textiles21 January199819 March19983Ummareddy VenkateswarluBapatlaMoSParliamentary Affairs1 June199621 April1997Agriculture1 June199629 June1996Urban Affairsand Employment29 June199621 April1997Parliamentary Affairs21 April19979 June1997Urban Affairsand Employment21 April19979 June1997MoS(I/C)2 July199719 March19984Samudrala Venugopal CharyAdilabadMoSNon-ConventionalEnergy Sources29 June199621 Feb1997Power21 April19979 June1997Agriculture9 June199719 March19985S. Jaipal ReddyRajya Sabha(Andhra Pradesh)Cabinet MinisterInformation and Broadcasting1 May199719 March1998Janata Dal 2Food Processing Industries25 Dec199719 March19986Renuka ChowdhuryMoSHealth and Family Welfare9 June199719 March1998Telugu Desam Party Analysis Party-wise analysis The election, which marked the first to be held after NTR's death, served as the battle ground between Naidu-led and Parvathi-led TDP factions to seize NTR's remnant political influence. Naidu's decision to sustain prohibition and subsidised rice scheme, both of which being NTR's populist welfare policies, paid off leading him to the victory over the Parvathi's faction in the election.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2453 The TDPN and its allies, CPI and CPI(M), secured 37.9 percent of the votes totalling 19 seats (16 TDP, 2 CPI, 1 CPI(M)) and managed to assert its dominance over TDPLP which secured 10.6 percent of vote share albeit winning no seats. Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454 Securing 39.7 percent of the vote share with 22 seats, the Congress party performed remarkably well given its rather poor performance across the country.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454 Scholars attribute this phenomenon to the voters of the state reacting historically divergent from national politics; the state's electoral politics had been so distinct compared to other parts in the country that the strategies and forecasts had to be mended to suit such needs.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454 The pre-poll forecasts put Congress to have a clean sweep in the state given that it won 31 of the 42 seats in the 1991 general election and thus winning only 22 seats was seen inadequate.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454 Had the TDP not split and contested in conjunction, scholars argue, it would have won 43.2 percent vote share (32.6 TDPN, 10.6 TDPLPSrinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2452), a figure almost equal to what the it secured (43.3 percentSrinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2452) in 1994 Legislative Assembly election.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454 This would have ended Congress with only 6 seats. Thus, scholars argue the Congress party is the principal gainer of the clash between the two TDP factions.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454 MIM held the contentious constituency of Hyderabad, the state's capital. BJP lost its only seat to Congress. Analysis of the voting patterns in the Hyderabad region indicated that MIM had a robust support base in the urban area of the city and BJP held sway in the rural region often on the account of the TDP split.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454 Region-wise analysis In the Coastal Andhra region which is constituted of 21 constituencies, the TDPN won 11 constituencies exceeding the analysts' expectations; the Congress won the remaining 10 constituencies.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454-2455 The Congress party saw a degraded performance in the region as it was only able to secure 41.1 percent of the votes polled compared to the 47.1 percent in 1991 general elections. However, it saw a higher vote share when compared to the 37.1 percent in the 1994 Legislative Assembly election.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2455 The TDPN-alliance secured 39.4 percent of the votes, thus witnessing a minimal loss compared to 42.9 percent in 1991 general election.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2455 In the Telangana region constituting 15 constituencies, the Congress won 8 while the TDPN-alliance won 6 and the MIM 1 constituency.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454-2455 The Congress party saw a consistent performance in the region with 37.5 percent of the votes in 1991 general election compared to the 37.3 percent in this election.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454-2455 However, the party took significant gains from the 27.6 percent vote share in the 1994 Assembly election.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2455 The TDPN-alliance saw an improvement with 33.2 percent vote share compared to the 29.1 percent in 1991 general election.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2455 In the Rayalaseema region comprising 6 constituencies, Congress won 4 while TDPN won the remaining 2 constituencies.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2454-2455 The Congress party saw a detrimental performance in the region compared to the 1991 general election when it was able to win all the 6 constituencies. The votes polled for the party also saw a drop, from 59.7 percent in 1991 election to 43.1 percent in this election. However, it was able to gain compared to the 37.4 percent of the votes in the 1994 Legislative Assembly election.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2455 The TDPN-alliance saw an increase in its vote share from 33.2 percent in 1991 general election to 44.8 percent in this election.Srinivasulu Sarangi 1999 2455 See also Elections in Andhra Pradesh Notes References Bibliography Andersen Walter 1996 India in 1995: Year of the Long Campaign https://www.jstor.org/stable/2645814 Asian Survey 36 2 165–178 10.2307/2645814 0004-4687 2645814 subscription Reddy G. Krishna 2002 New Populism and Liberalisation: Regime Shift under Chandrababu Naidu in AP https://www.jstor.org/stable/4411814 Economic and Political Weekly 37 9 871–883 0012-9976 4411814 Srinivasulu K. Sarangi Prakash 1999 Political Realignments in Post-NTR Andhra Pradesh https://www.jstor.org/stable/4408340 Economic and Political Weekly 34 34/35 2449–2458 4408340 0012-9976 subscription External links Website of Election Commission of India CNN-IBN Lok Sabha Election History expanded Category:1990s in Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh Category:Indian general elections in Andhra Pradesh