1998 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh

The 1998 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.

Parties and alliances Alliance/Party Flag Symbol LeaderSeats contestedUnited Front Telugu Desam Party N. Chandrababu Naidu 3542 Communist Party of India (Marxist) Harkishan Singh Surjeet 3Communist Party of India Sudhakar Reddy 3Janata Dal V. P. Singh 1Indian National CongressY. S. Rajasekhara Reddy 42 National Democratic AllianceBharatiya Janata PartyC. Vidyasagar Rao38NTR Telugu Desam Party (LP) Lakshmi Parvathi5All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi1

Candidates ConstituencyTDP+INCNDA # Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate1SrikakulamKinjarapu Yerran NaiduDharmana Prasada RaoAppayya Dora Hanumanthu2Parvathipuram (ST)S. Vijaya Rama RajuV. Pradeep Kumar Dev3BobbiliKondapalli Pydithalli NaiduBotsa SatyanarayanaVasireddy Varada Rama Rao4VisakhapatnamP. Ananda Gajapati RajuT. Subbarami ReddyD. V. Subba Rao5Bhadrachalam (ST)Sode RamaiahKamala Kumari KarredulaSetti Lakshmanudu6AnakapalliC. Ayyanna PatruduGudivada Gurunadha RaoP. V. Chalapathi Rao7KakinadaThota Gopala KrishnaM. M. Pallam RajuKrishnam Raju8RajahmundryM. V. V. S. MurthiT. V. Satyanarayana ReddyGirajala Venkata Swamy Naidu9Amalapuram (SC)G. M. C. BalayogiK. S. R. MurthyUmamaheswara Rao K.10NarasapurKothapalli SubbarayuduKanumuri Bapi RajuDr. Parakala Prabhakar11EluruBolla Bulli RamaiahMaganti Venkateswara RaoJayalakshmi Yalamarthi12MachilipatnamKaikala SatyanarayanaKavuri Samba Siva RaoNagarjuna Rao Vemuri13VijayawadaJai Ramesh DasariP. UpendraVadde Ramakrishna Prasad14TenaliSarada TadiparthiP. Shiv ShankerRaghunadha Babu Yadlapati15GunturS. M. Laljan BashaRayapati Sambasiva RaoAvula Veerasekhararao16BapatlaUmmareddy VenkateswarluN. Janardhana ReddyGanesuni Rathaiah Chowdary17NarasaraopetSaidaiah KotaKonijeti RosaiahKabbireddy Medikonda18OngoleMekapati Rajamohan ReddyMagunta Sreenivasulu ReddyKondapalli Guravaiah Naidu19Nellore (SC)Buduru SwarnalathaPanabaka LakshmiKarupothala Balakondaiah20Tirupati (SC)Dr. N. SivaprasadChintha MohanN. Venkataswamy21ChittoorN. Ramakrishna ReddyM. Gnanendra ReddyN. P. Venkateswara Chowdary22RajampetGunipati RamaiahAnnayyagari Sai PrathapDr. A. Harinath Reddy23CuddapahKandula Rajamohana ReddyY. S. Rajasekhara ReddyNagendra Prasad Kadiri24HindupurS. Ramachandra ReddyS. GangadharSmt. Anjani Devi Pamudurthi25AnantapurK. RamakrishnaAnantha Venkatarami ReddyVeluri Kesava Chowdary26KurnoolK. E. Krishna MurthyKotla Vijaya Bhaskara ReddyK. Venkataswamy27NandyalBhuma Nagi ReddyG. Prathap ReddySyed Jaffar Ali Khan28Nagarkurnool (SC)Manda JagannathMallu RaviS. Balu29MahabubnagarJaipal ReddyMallikarjun GoudA. P. Jithender Reddy30HyderabadK. S. RatnamKichannagari Laxma Reddy Baddam Bal Reddy31SecunderabadAlladi P. RajkumarP. V. Rajeshwar RaoBandaru Dattatreya32Siddipet (SC)Malyala RajaiahNandi YellaiahN. A. Krishna33MedakPatlolla Manik ReddyMogaligundla Baga ReddyAle Narendra34NizamabadGaddam Ganga ReddyK. Keshava RaoAtmacharan Reddy Gaddam35AdilabadSamudrala Venugopal CharyAllola Indrakaran ReddyVishnu Prakash Bajaj36Peddapalli (SC)Chellamalla Suguna KumariGaddam VenkatswamyLingaiah Kasipeta37KarimnagarL. RamanaMeneni Satyanarayana RaoC. Vidyasagar Rao38HanamkondaChada Suresh ReddyKamaluddin AhmedS. Madhusudhana Chary39WarangalAzmeera ChandulalT. Kalpana DeviChandupatla Janga Reddy40KhammamTammineni VeerabhadramN. Bhaskara RaoDharavath Ravinder Naik41NalgondaSuravaram Sudhakar ReddyV. Hanumantha RaoN. Indrasena Reddy42MiryalgudaCherupally Seetha RamuluBaddam Narsimha ReddyJuttukonda Satyanarayana

Voting and results Alliance/ Party Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/− INC 1,22,69,475 38.46 1.20 42 22 rowspan="5" UF TDP 1,01,99,463 31.97 0.62 35 12 4 CPI(M) 9,21,972 2.89 0.02 3 0 1 CPI 8,16,200 2.56 0.17 3 2 JD 2,78,302 0.87 1 1 1 Total 1,22,15,937 38.29 42 15 rowspan="3" NDA BJP 58,36,394 18.30 12.65 36 + 2 4 4 NTDP 3,84,211 1.20 9.46 3 + 2 0 Total 62,20,605 19.50 39 + 4 4 AIMIM 4,85,785 1.52 0.40 1 1 Others 1,69,531 0.54 55 0 IND 5,37,578 1.69 2.11 207 0 Total 3,18,98,911 100% - 390 42 -

List of elected members Constituency Winner Runner Up Margin % # Name Poll % Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes % 1 Srikakulam 43.14% K. Yerran Naidu 2,86,582 42.57 Appayya Dora Hanumanthu 2,00,217 29.7486,36512.83 2 Parvathipuram (ST) 50.55% Vijaya R. Setrucharla 2,99,904 49.57 V. Pradeep Kumar Dev 2,76,627 45.7323,2773.84 3 Bobbili 43.89% K. Pydithalli Naidu 2,98,961 43.12 Botsa Satyanarayana 2,72,053 39.2426,9083.88 4 Visakhapatnam 42.21% T. Subbarami Reddy 3,75,782 41.54 P. Ananda Gajapati Raju 3,14,265 34.7461,5176.80 5 Bhadrachalam (ST) 39.10% Sode Ramaiah 2,63,141 38.02 Kamala K. Karredula 2,03,701 29.4359,4408.59 6 Anakapalli 43.96% G. Gurunadha Rao 3,21,840 43.28 C. Ayyanna Patrudu 2,95,915 39.8025,9253.48 7 Kakinada 41.06% Krishnam Raju 3,30,381 40.53 T. Gopala Krishna 2,62,582 32.2167,7998.32 8 Rajahmundry 36.57% Girajala Venkata Swamy 2,85,741 36.15 M. V. V. S. Murthi 2,75,829 34.899,9121.26 9 Amalapuram (SC) 43.57% G. M. C. Balayogi 2,86,953 43.07 K. S. R. Murthy 1,96,713 29.5390,24013.54 10 Narasapur 50.66% Kanumuri Bapi Raju 3,68,630 50.14 Kothapalli Subbarayudu 3,20,660 43.6147,9706.53 11 Eluru 47.68% M. Venkateswara Rao 3,85,412 47.04 Bolla Bulli Ramaiah 3,61,605 44.1423,8072.90 12 Machilipatnam 51.28% Kavuri Samba Siva Rao 3,55,030 50.70 Kaikala Satyanarayana 2,73,938 39.1281,09211.58 13 Vijayawada 45.02% P. Upendra 4,05,062 44.48 Jai Ramesh Dasari 3,74,995 41.1830,0673.30 14 Tenali 46.34% P. Shiv Shankar 2,90,014 45.83 Sarada 2,75,478 43.5414,5362.29 15 Guntur 47.79% Rayapati Sambasiva Rao 3,59,456 47.24 S. M. Laljan Basha 3,02,109 39.7157,3477.53 16 Bapatla 47.31% N. Janardhana Reddy 3,16,788 46.74 Ummareddy Venkateswarlu 2,76,300 40.7740,4885.97 17 Narasaraopet 50.22% Konijeti Rosaiah 3,75,815 49.58 Kota Saidaiah 3,27,996 43.2747,8196.31 18 Ongole 47.75% M. Sreenivasulu Reddy 3,51,390 47.13 M. Rajamohan Reddy 3,30,524 44.3320,8662.80 19 Nellore (SC) 40.06% Panabaka Lakshmi 2,96,731 39.41 Buduru Swarnalatha 2,50,204 33.2346,5276.18 20 Tirupathi (SC) 38.52% Chinta Mohan 2,88,904 38.02 N. Sivaprasad 2,79,558 36.799,3461.23 21 Chittoor 45.13% N. Ramakrishna Reddy 3,49,831 44.53 M. Gnanendra Reddy 2,69,750 34.3380,08110.20 22 Rajampet 45.35% A. Sai Prathap 2,74,889 44.68 Gunipati Ramaiah 2,26,993 36.8947,8967.79 23 Cuddapah 50.69% Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy 3,74,762 49.92 Kandula Rajamohana Reddy 3,20,881 42.7453,8817.18 24 Hindupur 43.16% S. Gangadhar 2,84,096 42.32 S. Ramachandra Reddy 2,57,958 38.4326,1383.89 25 Anantapur 47.65% Anantha V. Reddy 3,20,474 46.57 K. Ramakrishna 2,38,076 34.6082,39811.97 26 Kurnool 48.91% K. Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy 3,68,044 48.01 K. E. Krishna Murthy 3,55,208 46.3412,8361.67 27 Nandyal 48.47% Bhuma Nagi Reddy 3,38,100 47.48 G. Prathap Reddy 3,33,450 46.834,6500.65 28 Nagarkurnool (SC) 42.82% Mallu Ravi 3,29,127 41.95 Manda Jagannath 3,09,452 39.4519,6752.50 29 Mahabubnagar 37.25% Jaipal Reddy 2,78,302 36.57 Mallikarjun Goud 2,55,661 33.5922,6412.98 30 Hyderabad 44.65% Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi 4,85,785 44.06 Baddam Bal Reddy 4,14,173 37.5671,6126.50 31 Secunderabad 49.02% Bandaru Dattatreya 4,38,586 48.37 P. V. Rajeshwar Rao 2,52,676 27.871,85,91020.50 32 Siddipet (SC) 35.30% Malyala Rajaiah 3,48,194 34.67 Nandi Yellaiah 3,37,169 33.5711,0251.10 33 Medak 34.12% M. Baga Reddy 2,69,122 33.49 Ale Narendra 2,52,642 31.4416,4802.05 34 Nizamabad 38.48% G. Ganga Reddy 2,81,851 37.81 Atmacharan Reddy Gaddam 2,49,095 33.4132,7564.40 35 Adilabad 39.49% S. Venugopala Chary 2,91,168 38.68 Allola Indrakaran 2,57,634 34.2233,5344.46 36 Peddapalli (SC) 39.71% C. Suguna Kumari 3,22,801 38.80 G. Venkatswamy 3,16,627 38.066,1740.74 37 Karimnagar 42.83% C. Vidyasagar Rao 3,29,030 41.95 L. Ramana 2,33,033 29.7195,99712.24 38 Hanamkonda 47.04% C. Suresh Reddy 2,87,277 45.56 Kamaluddin Ahmed 2,41,786 38.3545,4917.21 39 Warangal 41.43% Azmeera Chandulal 3,23,093 40.71 T. Kalpana Devi 2,98,292 37.5924,8013.12 40 Khammam 40.30% N. Bhaskara Rao 3,63,747 39.65 T. Veerabhadram 3,52,083 38.3811,6641.27 41 Nalgonda 35.18% S. Sudhakar Reddy 3,14,983 34.59 V. Hanumantha Rao 2,90,528 31.9024,4552.69 42 Miryalguda 39.07% Baddam N. Reddy 3,34,183 38.42 C. Seetha Ramulu 3,19,685 36.7614,4981.66

See also Elections in Andhra Pradesh

References

External links Website of Election Commission of India CNN-IBN Lok Sabha Election History