2004 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh

Indian general election in United Andhra Pradesh, 2004
April–May 2004
42 seats
	United Andhra Pradesh
Prime Minister before election; A. B. Vajpayee; BJP	Prime Minister after election ; Manmohan Singh; INC

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

Voting Phases
I (21 seats)	II (21 seats)

Srikakulam Parvathipuram Bobbili Visakhapatnam Bhadrachalam Anakapalli Nagarkurnool Mahabubnagar Hyderabad Secunderabad Siddipet Medak Nizamabad Adilabad Peddapalli Karimnagar Hanamkonda Warangal Khammam Nalgonda Miryalguda	Kakinada Rajahmundry Amalapuram Narasapur Eluru Machilipatnam Vijayawada Tenali Guntur Bapatla Narasaraopet Ongole Nellore Tirupathi Chittoor Rajampet Cuddapah Hindupur Anantapur Kurnool Nandyal

Parties and alliances

		Leader	Seats contested
NDA	Telugu Desam Party	N. Chandrababu Naidu	33	42
NDA	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vidyasagar Rao	9	42
UPA	Indian National Congress	Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy	34	41
	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	K. Chandrasekhar Rao	5
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Babu Rao Mediyam	1
	Communist Party of India	Sudhakar Reddy	1
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen		Asaduddin Owaisi	1

Candidates

Constituency		UPA^[a]			NDA
No.	Name	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate
1	Srikakulam		INC	Killi Kruparani		TDP	Yerrannaidu Kinjarapu
2	Parvathipuram		INC	Kishore Chandra Deo		TDP	D. V. G. Sankara Rao
3	Bobbili		INC	Jhansi Botcha		TDP	Kondapalli Pydithalli Naidu
4	Visakhapatnam		INC	Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy		TDP	M. V. V. S. Murthi
5	Bhadrachalam		CPI(M)	Babu Rao Mediyam		TDP	K. P. R. K Phaneeswaramma
6	Anakapalli		INC	Nanda Gopal Gandham		TDP	Pappala Chalapathirao
7	Kakinada		INC	M. M. Pallam Raju		TDP	Mudragada Padmanabham
8	Rajahmundry		INC	Aruna Kumar Vundavalli		BJP	Kantipudi Sarvarayudu
9	Amalapuram		INC	G. V. Harsha Kumar		TDP	Janardhana Rao Dunna
10	Narasapur		INC	Chegondi Harirama Jogaiah		BJP	Krishnam Raju
11	Eluru		INC	Kavuri Samba Siva Rao		TDP	Bolla Bulli Ramaiah
12	Machilipatnam		INC	Badiga Ramakrishna		TDP	Ambati Brahmanaiah
13	Vijayawada		INC	Lagadapati Rajagopal		TDP	C. Aswini Dutt
14	Tenali		INC	Vallabhaneni Balashowry		TDP	Ummareddy Venkateswarlu
15	Guntur		INC	Rayapati Sambasiva Rao		TDP	Yadlapati Venkata Rao
16	Bapatla		INC	Daggubati Purandeswari		TDP	D. Ramanaidu
17	Narasaraopet		INC	Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy		TDP	Maddi Lakshmaiah
18	Ongole		INC	Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy		TDP	Bathula Vijaya Bharathi
19	Nellore		INC	Panabaka Lakshmi		BJP	Karupotala Balakondaiah
20	Tirupathi		INC	Chinta Mohan		BJP	Dr N Venkata Swamy
21	Chittoor		INC	Dr Ravuri Venkata Swamy		TDP	D. K. Adikesavulu Naidu
22	Rajampet		INC	Annayyagari Sai Prathap		TDP	Gunipati Ramaiah
23	Cuddapah		INC	Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy		TDP	M. V. Mysura Reddy
24	Hindupur		INC	G. Nizamuddin		TDP	B. K. Parthasarathi
25	Anantapur		INC	Anantha Venkatarami Reddy		TDP	Kalava Srinivasulu
26	Kurnool		INC	Kotla Jayasurya Prakasha Reddy		TDP	K. E. Krishna Murthy
27	Nandyal		INC	S. P. Y. Reddy		TDP	Bhuma Nagi Reddy
28	Nagarkurnool		Did not contest^[b]			TDP	Manda Jagannath
29	Mahabubnagar		INC	Devarakonda Vittal Rao		TDP	Yelkoti Yella Reddy
30	Hyderabad		INC	Konda Lakshma Reddy		BJP	G Subhash Chanderji
31	Secunderabad		INC	Anjan Kumar Yadav		BJP	Bandaru Dattatreya
32	Siddipet		INC	Sarve Satyanarayana		TDP	Dr K Lingaiah
33	Medak		TRS	A. Narendra		BJP	P Ramchandra Reddy
34	Nizamabad		INC	Madhu Goud Yaskhi		TDP	Syed Yusuf Ali
35	Adilabad		TRS	Madhusudhan Reddy Takkala		TDP	Dr S Venugopala Chary
36	Peddapalli		INC	G. Venkat Swamy		TDP	Dr Mt C Suguna
37	Karimnagar		TRS	K. Chandrashekar Rao		BJP	Vidyasagar Chennamaneni Rao
38	Hanamkonda		TRS	B. Vinod Kumar		TDP	Suresh Chada Reddy
39	Warangal		TRS	Dharavath Ravinder Naik		TDP	Bodakunti Venkateshwarlu
40	Khammam		INC	Renuka Chowdhury		TDP	Nama Nageswara Rao
41	Nalgonda		CPI	Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy^[c]		BJP	N. Indrasena Reddy
42	Miryalguda		INC	Jaipal Reddy		TDP	Swamy Vangala Goud

Voting and results

Results by Alliance

Alliance/ Party				Popular vote			Seats
Alliance/ Party				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	UPA		INC	1,48,61,984	41.56	1.23	34	29	24
			TRS	24,41,405	6.83	New	5 + 17	5	5
			CPI	4,79,511	1.34	0.01	1	1	1
			CPI(M)	3,73,148	1.04	0.36	1	1	1
		Total		1,81,56,048	50.77		41	36
	NDA		TDP	1,18,44,811	33.12	6.73	33	5	24
			BJP	30,06,018	8.41	1.49	9	0	7
		Total		1,48,50,829	41.53	8.22	42	5	31
	AIMIM			4,17,248	1.17	0.17	2	1
	Others			8,55,130	2.39		63	0
	IND			14,83,415	4.15	2.74	114	0
Total				3,57,62,670	100%	-	279	42	-

Results by constituency

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
Constituency		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Srikakulam	Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu		TDP	361,906	50.00	Killi Krupa Rani		INC	330,027	45.60	31,879	4.40
2	Parvathipuram (ST)	Kishore Chandra Deo		INC	321,788	48.69	D. V. G. Sankara Rao		TDP	314,370	47.57	7,418	1.12
3	Bobbili	Kondapalli Pydithalli Naidu		TDP	373,922	50.07	Botsa Jhansi Lakshmi		INC	342,574	45.88	31,348	4.20
4	Visakhapatnam	N. Janardhana Reddy		INC	524,122	54.27	M. V. V. S. Murthi		TDP	393,551	40.75	130,571	13.52
5	Bhadrachalam (ST)	Babu Rao Mediyam		CPI(M)	373,148	45.32	Smt. K. P. R. K Phaneeswaramma		TDP	319,342	38.78	53,806	6.53
6	Anakapalli	Pappala Chalapathirao		TDP	385,406	49.28	Nanda Gopal Gandham		INC	369,992	47.31	15,414	1.97
7	Kakinada	M. M. Pallam Raju		INC	410,982	49.38	Mudragada Padmanabha Reddy		TDP	353,730	42.50	57,252	6.88
8	Rajahmundry	Vundavalli Aruna Kumar		INC	413,927	50.72	Kantipudi Sarvarayudu		BJP	265,107	32.48	148,820	18.23
9	Amalapuram (SC)	G. V. Harsha Kumar		INC	350,346	49.75	Dunna Janardhana Rao		TDP	308,861	43.86	41,485	5.89
10	Narasapur	Chegondi Harirama Jogaiah		INC	402,761	52.41	Krishnam Raju		BJP	338,349	44.03	64,412	8.38
11	Eluru	Kavuri Samba Siva Rao		INC	499,191	55.65	Bolla Bulli Ramaiah		TDP	375,900	41.91	123,291	13.75
12	Machilipatnam	Badiga Ramakrishna		INC	387,127	51.25	Ambati Brahmanaiah		TDP	336,786	44.59	50,341	6.66
13	Vijayawada	Rajagopal Lagadapati		INC	519,624	54.95	C. Aswini Dutt		TDP	405,037	42.84	114,587	12.12
14	Tenali	Vallabhaneni Balashowry		INC	366,843	54.47	Ummareddy Venkateswarlu		TDP	288,287	42.81	78,556	11.66
15	Guntur	Rayapati Sambasiva Rao		INC	466,221	56.75	Yemparala Venkateswara Rao		TDP	336,429	40.95	129,792	15.80
16	Bapatla	Daggubati Purandeswari		INC	411,099	55.90	D. Ramanaidu		TDP	317,017	43.10	94,082	12.79
17	Narasaraopet	Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy		INC	481,310	53.49	Maddi Lakshmaiah		TDP	395,055	43.91	86,255	9.59
18	Ongole	Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy		INC	446,584	55.89	Bathula Vijaya Bharathi		TDP	340,563	42.62	106,021	13.27
19	Nellore (SC)	Panabaka Lakshmi		INC	450,129	53.81	Balakondaiah Karupotala		BJP	321,905	38.48	128,224	15.33
20	Tirupathi (SC)	Chinta Mohan		INC	510,961	60.06	Dr. N. Venkata Swamy		BJP	311,633	36.63	199,328	23.43
21	Chittoor	D. K. Adikesavulu Naidu		TDP	454,128	51.84	Dr. Ravuri Venkata Swamy		INC	391,990	44.75	62,138	7.09
22	Rajampet	Annayyagari Sai Prathap		INC	369,797	53.49	Gunipati Ramaiah		TDP	291,712	42.20	78,085	11.29
23	Cuddapah	Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy		INC	461,431	56.33	M. V. Mysura Reddy		TDP	329,757	40.25	131,674	16.07
24	Hindupur	G. Nizamuddin		INC	419,744	48.35	B. K. Parthasarathi		TDP	417,904	48.14	1,840	0.21
25	Anantapur	Anantha Venkatarami Reddy		INC	458,925	52.44	Kalava Srinivasulu		TDP	385,521	44.05	73,404	8.39
26	Kurnool	Kotla Jayasurya Prakasha Reddy		INC	433,529	52.95	K. E. Krishna Murthy		TDP	332,431	40.60	101,098	12.35
27	Nandyal	S. P. Y. Reddy		INC	458,526	55.25	Bhuma Shobha Nagi Reddy		TDP	346,847	41.79	111,679	13.46
28	Nagarkurnool (SC)	Manda Jagannath		TDP	405,046	45.85	K. S. Ratnam		IND	305,396	34.57	99,650	11.28
29	Mahabubnagar	Devarakonda Vittal Rao		INC	428,764	49.48	Yeloti Yella Reddy		TDP	380,857	43.95	47,907	5.53
30	Hyderabad	Asaduddin Owaisi		AIMIM	378,854	38.39	G. Subash Chanderji		BJP	278,709	28.25	100,145	10.15
31	Secunderabad	Anjan Kumar Yadav		INC	485,710	49.90	Bandaru Dattatraya		BJP	416,952	42.84	68,758	7.06
32	Siddipet (SC)	Sarve Satyanarayana		INC	593,879	53.03	Dr. K. Lingaih		TDP	454,907	40.62	138,972	12.41
33	Medak	Ale Narendra		TRS	453,738	50.36	P. Ramachandra Reddy		BJP	329,972	36.62	123,766	13.74
34	Nizamabad	Madhu Goud Yaskhi		INC	442,142	56.51	Syed Yousuf Ali		TDP	304,271	38.89	137,871	17.62
35	Adilabad	Madhusudhan Reddy Takkala		TRS	415,429	49.97	Samudrala Venugopal Chary		TDP	374,455	45.04	40,974	4.93
36	Peddapalli (SC)	Gaddam Venkatswamy		INC	572,207	60.91	Dr. Mt. C. Suguna		TDP	309,072	32.90	263,135	28.01
37	Karimnagar	K. Chandrashekar Rao		TRS	451,199	51.60	C. Vidyasagar Rao		BJP	320,031	36.60	131,168	15.00
38	Hanamkonda	B. Vinod Kumar		TRS	496,048	59.63	Chada Suresh Reddy		TDP	278,981	33.53	217,067	26.09
39	Warangal	Dharavath Ravinder Naik		TRS	427,601	46.38	Bodakunti Venkateshwarlu		TDP	408,339	44.29	19,262	2.09
40	Khammam	Renuka Chowdhury		INC	518,047	50.63	Nama Nageswara Rao		TDP	409,159	39.99	108,888	10.64
41	Nalgonda	Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy		CPI	479,511	45.76	N. Indrasena Reddy		BJP	423,360	40.40	56,151	5.36
42	Miryalguda	Jaipal Reddy		INC	572,169	59.44	Vangala Swamy Goud		TDP	355,262	36.91	216,907	22.53

By-elections (2004-09)

#	Year	Constituency	MP before election		Elected MP
1	2006	Karimnagar	K. Chandrashekar Rao	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	K. Chandrashekar Rao	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
2	2006	Bobbili	Kondapalli Pydithalli Naidu	Telugu Desam Party	Botsa Jhansi Lakshmi	Indian National Congress
3	2008	Karimnagar	K. Chandrashekar Rao	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	K. Chandrashekar Rao	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
4		Adilabad	Madhusudhan Reddy Takkala		Allola Indrakaran Reddy	Indian National Congress
5		Hanamkonda	B. Vinod Kumar		B. Vinod Kumar	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
6		Warangal	Dharavath Ravinder Naik		Errabelli Dayakar Rao	Telugu Desam Party

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Andhra Pradesh

#	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department	From	To
1	Jaipal Reddy	Miryalguda	Cabinet Minister	Information and Broadcasting	23 May 2004	18 Nov 2005	INC
				Culture	23 May 2004	29 Jan 2006
				Urban Development	18 Nov 2005	22 May 2009
2	K. Chandrashekhar Rao	Karimnagar	Cabinet Minister	Shipping	23 May 2004	25 May 2004	TRS
				Minister without portfolio	25 May 2004	27 Nov 2004
				Labour and Employment	27 Nov 2004	24 Aug 2006
3	Renuka Chowdhury	Khammam	MoS(I/C)	Tourism	23 May 2004	29 Jan 2006	INC
3	Renuka Chowdhury	Khammam	MoS(I/C)	Women and Child Development	29 Jan 2006	22 May 2009
4	Panabaka Lakshmi	Nellore (SC)	MoS	Health and Family Welfare	23 May 2004	29 March 2009
4	Panabaka Lakshmi	Nellore (SC)	MoS(I/C)	Health and Family Welfare	29 March 2009	22 May 2009
5	Ale Narendra	Medak	MoS	Rural Development	23 May 2004	24 Aug 2006	TRS
6	M. M. Pallam Raju	Kakinada		Defence	29 Jan 2006	22 May 2009	INC
7	Daggubati Purandeswari	Bapatla		Human Resource Development	29 Jan 2006	22 May 2009	INC

Assembly Segment wise lead

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2004 election)
	Indian National Congress	190	185
	Telugu Desam Party	51	47
	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	29	26
	Bharatiya Janata Party	8	2
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	5	9
	Communist Party of India	5	6
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	4	4
	Others	2	15
Total		294

Notes

^ There were friendly contests between INC and TRS in the following parliamentary constituencies: 3 Bobilli, 11 Eluru, 12 Machilipatnam, 13 Vijayawada, 14 Tenali, 15 Guntur, 16 Bapatla, 17 Narasaraopet, 20 Tirupathi (SC), 21 Chittoor, 22 Rajampet, 23 Cuddapah, 24 Hindupur, 25 Anantapur, 26 Kurnool, and 27 Nandyal.
^ There was no candidate from the UPA (INC, TRS, CPI, CPI(M)) in constituency 28 Nagarkurnool.
^ Friendly contest between TRS and CPI in constituency 41 Nalgonda, which is not listed.

References

^ Report on General Elections to Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh, Official website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh
^ Voting results in General Elections to Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh, Official website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh
^ "General Elections to the 14th Lok Sabha and certain State Legislative Assemblies, 2004 – Deployment of Observers". Election Commission of India. 19 March 2004. p. 3.
^ "ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA, PRESS NOTE, SUBJECT: SCHEDULE FOR GENERAL ELECTIONS, 2004". Election Commission of India. 29 February 2004. pp. 11, 13, 20, 25.

[TRS-5] There were friendly contests between INC and TRS in the following parliamentary constituencies: 3 Bobilli, 11 Eluru, 12 Machilipatnam, 13 Vijayawada, 14 Tenali, 15 Guntur, 16 Bapatla, 17 Narasaraopet, 20 Tirupathi (SC), 21 Chittoor, 22 Rajampet, 23 Cuddapah, 24 Hindupur, 25 Anantapur, 26 Kurnool, and 27 Nandyal.

[UPA-6] There was no candidate from the UPA (INC, TRS, CPI, CPI(M)) in constituency 28 Nagarkurnool.

[INC-7] Friendly contest between TRS and CPI in constituency 41 Nalgonda, which is not listed.

[1] Report on General Elections to Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh, Official website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh

[2] Voting results in General Elections to Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh, Official website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh

[3] "General Elections to the 14th Lok Sabha and certain State Legislative Assemblies, 2004 – Deployment of Observers". Election Commission of India. 19 March 2004. p. 3.

[4] "ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA, PRESS NOTE, SUBJECT: SCHEDULE FOR GENERAL ELECTIONS, 2004". Election Commission of India. 29 February 2004. pp. 11, 13, 20, 25.

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