2014 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh

The 2014 general election was the last election that a united Andhra Pradesh took part in, as the state was bifurcated into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states less than a month after the polls. In Andhra Pradesh there are 25 Lok sabha constituencies and were scheduled to go for voting on 7 May 2014 and results are announced on 16 May 2014,[1] and the new state of Telangana was carved out from Andhra Pradesh on 2 June 2014.

Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh, 2014

April–May 2014
42 seats
Turnout	74.64%
Leader Chandrababu Naidu K. Chandrasekhar Rao Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy Party TDP TRS YSRCP Last election 6 2 2 Seats won 16 11 9 Seat change 10 9 7   Leader G Kishan Reddy Raghu Veera Reddy Party BJP INC Alliance NDA UPA Last election 0 31 Seats won 3 2 Seat change 3 29
Andhra Pradesh loksabha constituents

Polling

Elections were held in 2 phases i.e. 7th and 8th phases of General election 2014 on 30 April, and 7 May 2014.

Phase 1

Polling passed off peacefully with more than 72 percent of more than 28.1  a million voters exercising their franchise in the 10 districts in the region. Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwarlal said the polling could touch 75 percent. In 2009, the percentage was 67.71 in the region[2]

Phase 2

Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar Lal said around 76.80 percent of the 36.8  a million voters exercised their franchise across 175 Assembly and 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in the region and the voting percentage is likely to touch 80. The highest turnout of 82.97 percent was recorded in Guntur district and the lowest of 70 percent in Visakhapatnam district.[3]

Voting and results

Results by party wise

Party		Seats	+/−	Votes	%	+/−
	INC	2
	TDP	16
	YSRCP	9
	TRS	11
	BJP	3
	AIMIM	1
	LSP	0
	CPI	0
	CPI (M)	0
	AAP	0
Source: source

Notes:

List of Elected MPs

No.	Constituency	Turnout	Member of Parliament[4]		Political Party	Gender
1.	Adilabad	76.15	Godam Nagesh		TRS	M
2.	Peddapalle	71.93	Balka Suman		TRS	M
3.	Karimnagar	72.69	Vinod Kumar Boinapally		TRS	M
4.	Nizamabad	69.11	Kavitha		TRS	F
5.	Zahirabad	76.09	B B Patil		TRS	M
6.	Medak	77.70	K Chandrasekhar Rao		TRS	M
7.	Malkajgiri	51.05	Malla Reddy		TDP	M
8.	Secunderabad	53.06	Bandaru Dattatreya		BJP	M
9.	Hyderabad	53.30	Asaduddin Owaisi		AIMIM	M
10.	Chevella	60.51	Konda Vishweshwar Reddy		TRS	M
11.	Mahbubnagar	71.58	AP Jithender Reddy		TRS	M
12.	Nagarkurnool	75.55	Yellaiah Nandi		INC	M
13.	Nalgonda	79.75	Gutha Sukendar Reddy		INC	M
14.	Bhongir	81.27	Dr. Boora Narsaiah Goud		TRS	M
15.	Warangal	76.52	Kadiyam Srihari		TRS	M
16.	Mahabubabad	81.21	Azmeera Seetaram Naik		TRS	M
17.	Khammam	82.55	Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy		YSRCP	M
18.	Araku	71.82	Kothapalli Geetha		YSRCP	F
19.	Srikakulam	74.60	Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu		TDP	M
20.	Vizianagaram	80.19	Pusapati Ashok Gajapati Raju		TDP	M
21.	Visakhapatnam	67.53	Kambhapati Hari Babu		BJP	M
22.	Anakapalli	82.01	Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao (Avanthi)		TDP	M
23.	Kakinada	77.68	Thota Narasimham		TDP	M
24.	Amalapuram	82.63	Dr. Pandula Ravindra Babu		TDP	M
25.	Rajahmundry	81.38	Murali Mohan Maganti		TDP	M
26.	Narsapuram	82.19	Gokaraju Ganga Raju		BJP	M
27.	Eluru	84.27	Maganti Venkateswara Rao (Babu)		TDP	M
28.	Machilipatnam	83.48	Konakalla Narayana Rao		TDP	M
29.	Vijayawada	76.64	Kesineni Srinivas (Nani)		TDP	M
30.	Guntur	79.31	Jayadev Galla		TDP	M
31.	Narasaraopet	84.68	Rayapati Sambasiva Rao		TDP	M
32.	Bapatla	85.16	Malyadri Sriram		TDP	M
33.	Ongole	82.23	Y V Subba Reddy		YSRCP	M
34.	Nandyal	76.71	S P Y Reddy		YSRCP	M
35.	Kurnool	72.08	Butta Renuka		YSRCP	F
36.	Anantapur	78.87	J C Divakar Reddi		TDP	M
37.	Hindupur	81.53	Kristappa Nimmala		TDP	M
38.	Kadapa	77.47	Y S Avinash Reddy		YSRCP	M
39.	Nellore	74.02	Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy		YSRCP	M
40.	Tirupati	77.14	Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli		YSRCP	M
41.	Rajampet	78.05	P V Midhun Reddy		YSRCP	M
42.	Chittoor	82.59	Naramalli Sivaprasad		TDP	M

Opinion polls

Conducted in Month(s)	Ref	Polling Organisation/Agency	Sample size
				INC	BJP	TDP	YSR Congress	TRS – AIMIM
Aug–Oct 2013	[5]	Times Now-India TV-CVoter	24,284	7	–	8	13	13
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014	[6]	India Today-CVoter	21,792	7	–	8	13	13
Jan–Feb 2014	[7]	Times Now-India TV-CVoter	14,000	6	2	10	13	10
March 2014	[8]	NDTV- Hansa Research[9]	46,571	6	9		15	11
March–April 2014	[10]	CNN-IBN-Lokniti-CSDS	1308	4–8	13–19		9–15	4–8
April 2014	[11]	NDTV- Hansa Research[12]	24,000	6	18		9	8
4–12 April 2014	[13]	India Today-Cicero	1358	4–6	17–21		7–11	6–10

References

1. Schedule set for Lok Sabha poll battle. The Hindu.
2. Telangana witnesses high voter turnout. The Hindu.
3. High voter turnout in Seemandhra. The Hindu.
4. "GENERAL ELECTION TO LOK SABHA TRENDS & RESULT 2014 -AP". Archived from the original on 27 May 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
5. "Congress 102, BJP 162; UPA 117, NDA 186: C-Voter Poll". Outlook. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
6. "NDA may win over 200 seats as Modi's popularity soars further: India Today Mood of the Nation opinion poll : North, News – India Today". India Today. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
7. "India TV-C Voter projection: Big gains for BJP in UP, Bihar; NDA may be 45 short of magic mark". Indiatv. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
8. "The Final Word – India's biggest opinion poll". NDTV. 14 March 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
9. The poll was conducted separately for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. 1 seat was given to others in Telangana. Moreover, BJP and TDP were taken to be a coalition
10. "Andhra poll tracker: TDP to get 18–20 seats, YSRCP 1–2, Congress 3–4". CNN-IBN. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
11. "The Final Word – India's biggest opinion poll". NDTV. 14 April 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
12. The poll was conducted separately for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
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