2004 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh explained

Election Name:	Indian general election in United Andhra Pradesh, 2004
Country:	India
Type:	parliamentary
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh, 1999
Previous Year:	1999
Next Election:	Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh, 2009
Next Year:	2009
Election Date:	April–May 2004
Seats For Election:	42 seats
Leader1:	Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy
Party1:	Indian National Congress
Alliance1:	United Progressive Alliance
Leaders Seat1:	None
Seats1:	29
Seat Change1:	24
Popular Vote1:	17,303,389
Percentage1:	48.4
Swing1:	8.5%
Leaders Seat2:	None
Party2:	Telugu Desam Party
Alliance2:	National Democratic Alliance (India)
Seats2:	5
Seat Change2:	24
Popular Vote2:	14,850,829
Percentage2:	41.5
Swing2:	1.3%
Leader3:	K. Chandrasekhar Rao
Party3:	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
Alliance3:	United Progressive Alliance
Leaders Seat3:	Karimnagar
Last Election3:	new party
Last Election1:	5
Last Election2:	29
Seats3:	5
Seat Change3:	5
Popular Vote3:	2,441,405
Percentage3:	6.83%
Swing3:	6.83%
Map Size:	200px

Before Election:	National Democratic Alliance (India)
After Party:	United Progressive Alliance

In United Andhra Pradesh, the general elections and state assembly elections were held simultaneously. In both, the ruling Telugu Desam Party-Bharatiya Janata Party (TDP-BJP) combine was routed. BJP could not win a single seat. The result was a landslide victory for the United Progressive Alliance which won 34 out of 42 seats, which reflects the state elections that occurred before the general elections, where National Democratic Alliance (NDA) member, TDP, was defeated soundly by Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and the Indian National Congress. Alliance with CPM and CPI helped the Congress party. Congress had contested in alliance with the communist parties and the TRS.^[1] ^[2]

Election Schedule

The election commission had appointed its total of 126 observers in the state in view of the preparations.^[3]

The filing of nomination along with voting was carried by the Election Commission in three days as:^[4]

Poll event	Phase
	I	II

Notification date	24 March 2004	31 March 2004
Last date for filing the nomination	31 March 2004	7 April 2004
Date of Scrutiny	2 April 2004	8 April 2004
Last date for withdrawal of nomination	5 April 2004	10 April 2004
Date of poll	20 April 2004	26 April 2004
Date of counting	13 May 2004

Results by party

Party	Votes	%	Change	Seats	Change
Bahujan Samaj Party	507,381	1.43	–	0	–
Bharatiya Janata Party	3,006,018	8.41	−1.49	0	−7
Communist Party of India	479,511	1.34	+0.1	1	+1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	373,148	1.04	−0,36	1	+1
Indian National Congress	14,861,984	41.56	−1.23	29	+24
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation	9,458	0.03	0.0	0	–
Indian Union Muslim League	16,313	0.05	–	0	–
Rashtriya Janata Dal	7,260	0.02	+0.02	0	–
Samajwadi Party	41,770	0.12	+0.7	0	–
Telugu Desam Party	11,844,811	33.12	−6.73	5	−24
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimen	417,248	1.17	−0.17	1	–
Telangana Rashtra Samithi	2,441,405	6.83	–	5	+5
Other parties	272,948	7.63	–	0	–
Independents	1,483,415	4.15	+2.74	0	–
Total	35,762,670	–	–	42	–

Parliament Constituencies

S.No.	Parliament Constituencies
1	Hyderabad
2	Secunderabad
3	Medak
4	Siddipet [SC]
5	Nizamabad
6	Adilabad
7	Peddapalli [SC]
8	Karimnagar
9	Warangal
10	Hanamkonda
11	Khammam
12	Nalgonda
13	Miryalaguda
14	Nagar Kurnool [SC]
15	Mahabubnagar
16	Bhadrachalam [ST]
17	Srikakulam
18	Parvathipuram
19	Bobbili
20	Visakhapatnam
21	Anakapalli
22	Kakinada
23	Rahamundry
24	Amalapuram
25	Narsapuarm
26	Eluru
27	Machilipatnam
28	Vijayawada
29	Tenali
30	Gunturu
31	Bapatla
32	Narasaraopeta
33	Ongole
34	Nellore
35	Tirupathi
36	Chittoor
37	Rajampeta
38	Cuddapah
39	Hindupuram
40	Anantapuram
41	Kurnool
42	Nandyala

Results by constituency

Constituency		Turnout	Winner					Runner-up					Margin
No.	Name	Turnout	Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Srikakulam	75.5 (6.86)		Yerrannaidu Kinjarapu	361,906	50		Killi Kruparani	330,027	45.6	31,879	4.4
2	Parvathipuram	73.74 (3.86)		Vyricherla Kishore Chandra Suryanarayana Deo	321,788	48.69		Dadichiluka Veera Gouri Sankara Rao	314,370	47.57	7,418	1.12
3	Bobbili	76.54		Kondapalli Pydithalli Naidu	373,922	50.07		Jhansi Botcha	342,574	45.88	31,348	4.19
4	Visakhapatnam	63.75 (0.65)		Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy	524,122	54.27		M. V. V. S. Murthi	393,551	40.75	130,571	13.52
5	Bhadrachalam	69.01 (0.99)		Babu Rao Mediyam	373,148	45.32		KPRK Phaneeswaramma	319,342	38.78	53,806	6.54
6	Anakapalli	76.44 (2.67)		Pappala Chalapathirao	385,406	49.28		Nanda Gopal Gandham	369,992	47.31	15,414	1.97
7	Kakinada	68.44 (2.90)		Mallipudi Raju Pallam Mangapati	410,982	49.38		Mudragada Padmanabham	353,730	42.50	57,252	6.88
8	Rajahmundry	74.55 (2.11)		Aruna Kumar Vundavalli	413,927	50.72		Kantipudi Sarvarayudu	265,107	32.48	148,820	18.24
9	Amalapuram	74.59 (0.85)		G.V. Harsha Kumar	350,346	49.75		Janardhana Rao Dunna	308,861	43.86	41,485	5.89
10	Narasapur	75.16 (3.26)		Chegondi Venkata Harirama Jogaiah	402,761	52.41		Venkatakrishnam Uppalapati Raju	338,349	44.02	64,412	8.39
11	Eluru	77.88 (3.58)		Kavuru Samba Siva Rao	499,191	55.65		Bolla Bulli Ramaiah	375,900	41.92	23,291	13.74
12	Machilipatnam	76.08 (3.52)		Badiga Ramakrishna	387,127	51.25		Ambati Brahmanaiah	336,786	44.59	50,341	6.66
13	Vijayawada	64.59 (3.84)		Rajagopal Lagadapati	519,624	54.95		C. Aswani Dutt	405,037	42.84	114,487	12.11
14	Tenali	76.55 (7.90)		Balashowry Vallabhaneni	366,843	54.47		Ummareddy Venkateswarlu	288,287	42.81	78,556	11.66
15	Guntur	70.06 (5.95)		Sambasiva Rayapati Rao	466,221	56.75		Y V Rao	336,429	40.95	129,792	15.80
16	Bapatla	77.53 (10.06)		Daggubati Purandareswari	411,009	55.88		Daggubati Ramanaidu	317,017	43.10	93,992	12.78
17	Narasaraopet	71.70 (2.14)		Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy	481,310	53.49		Maddi Lakshmaiah	395,055	43.91	86,255	9.58
18	Ongole	75.14 (8.53)		Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy	446,584	55.89		Bathula Vijaya Bharathi	340,563	42.62	106,021	13.27
19	Nellore	72.56 (5.05)		Lakshmi Panabaka	450,129	53.81		Karupotala Balakondaiah	321,905	38.48	128,224	15.33
20	Tirupathi	69.99 (1.25)		Chinta Mohan	510,961	60.06		Dr N Venkata Swamy	311,633	36.63	199,328	23.43
21	Chittoor	74.90 (0.02)		D.K. Audikesavulu	454,128	51.84		Dr Ravuri Venkata Swamy	391,990	44.75	62,138	7.09
22	Rajampet	69.76 (1.97)		Sai Prathap Annayyagari	369,797	53.49		Gunipati Ramaiah	291,712	42.20	78,085	11.29
23	Cuddapah	71.69 (3.92)		Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy	461,431	56.33		Mule Venkata Mysura Reddy	329,757	40.25	130,674	16.08
24	Hindupur	73.63 (4.78)		G Nizamuddin	419,744	48.75		B. K. Parthasarathi	417,904	48.17	1,840	0.58
25	Anantapur	68.42 (5.43)		Anantha Venkatarami Reddy	458,925	52.44		Kalava Srinivasulu	385,521	44.05	73,404	8.39
26	Kurnool	62.48 (4.02)		Kotla Jayasurya Prakasha Reddy	433,529	52.95		Kambalapadu Ediga Krishnamurthi	332,431	40.60	101,098	12.35
27	Nandyal	70.25 (3.15)		S. P. Y. Reddy	458,526	55.25		Bhuma Nagi Reddy	346,847	41.79	111,679	13.46
28	Nagarkurnool	68.16 (1.36)		Manda Jagannath	405,046	45.85		K S Ratnam	305,396	34.57	99,650	11.2
29	Mahabubnagar	63.46 (3.03)		D. Vittal Rao	428,764	49.48		Yelkoti Yella Reddy	380,857	43.95	47,907	5.53
30	Hyderabad	55.73 (13.42)		Asaduddin Owaisi	378,854	38.39		G Subhash Chanderji	278,709	28.25	100,145	10.14
31	Secunderabad	52.29 (2.56)		M. Anjan Kumar Yadav	485,710	49.90		Bandaru Dattatraya	416,952	42.84	68,758	7.06
32	Siddipet	64.84 (1.46)		Sarvey Sathyanarayana	593,879	53.03		Dr K Lingaiah	454,907	40.62	138,978	12.41
33	Medak	71.60 (0.41)		A. Narendra	453,738	50.36		P Ramchandra Reddy	329,972	36.62	124,766	13.74
34	Nizamabad	69.37 (0.49)		Madhu Goud Yaskhi	442,142	56.51		Syed Yusuf Ali	304,271	38.89	137,871	17.62
35	Adilabad	72.91 (2.57)		Madhusudhan Reddy Takkala	415,429	49.97		Dr S Venugopala Chary	374,455	45.04	40,974	4.93
36	Peddapalli	67.78 (0.04)		G. Venkat Swamy	572,207	60.91		Dr Mt C Suguna	309,072	32.90	263,135	28.01
37	Karimnagar	65.12 (1.64)		K. Chandrashekar Rao	451,199	51.59		Vidyasagar Chennamaneni Rao	320,031	36.60	131,168	14.9
38	Hanamkonda	68.92 (1.29)		B. Vinod Kumar	496,048	59.63		Suresh Chada Reddy	278,981	33.54	217,067	26.09
39	Warangal	75.90 (0.36)		Dharavath Ravinder Naik	427,601	46.38		Bodakunti Venkateshwarlu	408,339	44.29	19,262	2.09
40	Khammam	78.82 (1.64)		Renuka Chowdhury	518,047	50.63		Nama Nageswara Rao	409,159	39.99	108,888	10.64
41	Nalgonda	65.30 (3.90)		Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy	479,511	45.76		N. Indrasena Reddy	423,360	40.40	56,151	5.36
42	Miryalguda	74.75 (2.5)		Jaipal Reddy	572,169	59.44		Swamy Vangala Goud	355,262	36.91	216,907	22.53

Constituency wise Detailed Result

Note: Telugu Desam Party was not part of the National Democratic Alliance (India) in the 1999 elections, instead it gave outside support to the NDA.

Note: Telugu Desam Party was not part of the National Democratic Alliance (India) in the 1999 elections, instead it gave outside support to the NDA.

Note: Telugu Desam Party was not part of the National Democratic Alliance (India) in the 1999 elections, instead it gave outside support to the NDA.

Note: Telugu Desam Party was not part of the National Democratic Alliance (India) in the 1999 elections, instead it gave outside support to the NDA.

Notes and References

http://ceoandhra.nic.in/Statistical2004.pdf Report on General Elections to Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh, Official website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh
http://ceoandhra.nic.in/GE_2004/indexw.html Voting results in General Elections to Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh, Official website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh
News: General Elections to the 14th Lok Sabha and certain State Legislative Assemblies, 2004 – Deployment of Observers. 3 . . 19 March 2004 . en-IN.
News: ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA, PRESS NOTE, SUBJECT: SCHEDULE FOR GENERAL ELECTIONS, 2004. 11, 13, 20, 25 . Election Commission of India . 29 February 2004 . en-IN.