2014 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh

The 2014 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh were held on 30 April 2014 and 7 May 2014. 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.

2014 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh

← 2009 30 April 2014 & 7 May 2014 (phases 7 & 8) 2019 (Andhra Pradesh) → 2019 (Telangana) →
All 42 Andhra Pradesh (and Telangana after split) seats in the Lok Sabha
Turnout	74.64% (1.94%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader N. Chandrababu Naidu K. Chandrashekar Rao Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy Party TDP TRS YSRCP Alliance NDA Leader's seat Did not stand[a] Medak Did not stand[b] Last election 6 2 Did not exist Seats won 16 11 9 Seat change 10 9 7 Popular vote 14,099,230 6,736,270 13,995,435 Percentage 29.36% 14.03% 29.14% Swing New   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader G. Kishan Reddy Raghu Veera Reddy Asaduddin Owaisi Party BJP INC AIMIM Alliance NDA UPA Leader's seat Did not stand[c] Did not stand[d] Hyderabad Last election 0 33 1 Seats won 3 2 1 Seat change 3 31 Popular vote 4,091,908 5,578,329 685,730 Percentage 8.52% 11.62% 1.43%
Andhra Pradesh result Telangana result
Prime Minister before election Manmohan Singh INC Prime Minister after election Narendra Modi BJP

Parties and alliances

Alliance/Party				Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	NDA		Telugu Desam Party			N. Chandrababu Naidu	30	42
			Bharatiya Janata Party			G. Kishan Reddy	12
	UPA		Indian National Congress			Raghu Veera Reddy	41	42
			Communist Party of India			K. Narayana	1
	YSR Congress Party					Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy	38
	Telangana Rashtra Samithi					K. Chandrasekhar Rao	17
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen					Asaduddin Owaisi	4
	Bahujan Samaj Party					Mayawati	40
	Jai Samaikyandhra Party					Kiran Kumar Reddy	27
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)					B. V. Raghavulu	4
	Lok Satta Party					Jaya Prakash Narayana	1

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		Votes	%	±	Seats	±
	Telugu Desam Party	14,099,230	29.36		16	10
	YSR Congress Party	13,995,435	29.14		9	7
	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	6,736,270	14.03		11	9
	Indian National Congress	5,578,329	11.62		2	31
	Bharatiya Janata Party	4,091,908	8.52		3
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	685,730	1.43		1
	Bahujan Samaj Party	397,567	0.83		0
	Communist Party of India	187,702	0.39		0
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	158,524	0.33		0
	Lok Satta Party	158,248	0.33		0
	Aam Aadmi Party	102,487	0.21		0
	Other parties	885,538	1.84		0
	Independent politician	949,666	1.98		0
Total (valid votes)		48,026,634	100.0	–	42	±0
Registered voters / turnout		64,934,138	73.96		–
Source: eci.gov.in

Total by state after the split

Party		Andhra Pradesh			Telangana
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	Telugu Desam Party	11,729,219	40.80	15	2,370,011	12.30	1
	YSR Congress Party	13,131,029	45.67	8	864,406	4.49	1
	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	–	–	–	6,736,270	34.94	11
	Indian National Congress	822,614	2.86	0	4,755,715	24.68	2
	Bharatiya Janata Party	2,077,079	7.22	2	2,014,829	10.46	1
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	5,598	0.02	0	680,132	3.53	1
	Other parties	902,947	3.14	0	1,172,681	6.08	0
	Independent politician	266,507	0.93	0	683,159	3.55	0
Total (valid votes)		28,749,431	100.0	25	19,277,203	100.0	17
	None of the above	185,562	0.65	–	154,992	0.80	–
Registered voters / turnout		36,760,884	78.21	–	28,173,254	68.42	–

List of elected members

No.	Constituency	Turnout	Member of Parliament[4]	Political party		Margin
1.	Adilabad	76.15	Godam Nagesh		TRS	1,71,290
2.	Peddapalle	71.93	Balka Suman		TRS	2,91,158
3.	Karimnagar	72.69	B. Vinod Kumar		TRS	2,05,077
4.	Nizamabad	69.11	K. Kavitha		TRS	1,67,184
5.	Zahirabad	76.09	B. B. Patil		TRS	1,44,631
6.	Medak	77.70	K. Chandrashekar Rao		TRS	3,97,029
7.	Malkajgiri	51.05	Malla Reddy		TDP	28,371
8.	Secunderabad	53.06	Bandaru Dattatreya		JP	2,54,735
9.	Hyderabad	53.30	Asaduddin Owaisi		AIMIM	2,02,454
10.	Chevella	60.51	Konda Vishweshwar Reddy		TRS	73,023
11.	Mahabubnagar	71.58	A. P. Jithender Reddy		TRS	2,590
12.	Nagarkurnool	75.55	Yellaiah Nandi		INC(I)	16,676
13.	Nalgonda	79.75	Gutha Sukendar Reddy		INC(I)	1,93,156
14.	Bhongir	81.27	Boora Narsaiah Goud		TRS	30,494
15.	Warangal	76.52	Kadiyam Srihari		TRS	3,92,574
16.	Mahabubabad	81.21	Azmeera Seetaram Naik		TRS	34,992
17.	Khammam	82.55	Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy		YSRCP	11,974
18.	Araku	71.82	Kothapalli Geetha		YSRCP	91,398
19.	Srikakulam	74.60	Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu		TDP	1,27,572
20.	Vizianagaram	80.19	Pusapati Ashok Gajapati Raju		TDP	1,06,911
21.	Visakhapatnam	67.53	Kambhampati Hari Babu		BJP	90,488
22.	Anakapalli	82.01	Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao (Avanthi)		TDP	47,932
23.	Kakinada	77.68	Thota Narasimham		TDP	3,431
24.	Amalapuram	82.63	Pandula Ravindra Babu		TDP	1,20,576
25.	Rajahmundry	81.38	Murali Mohan Maganti		TDP	1,67,434
26.	Narasapuram	82.19	Gokaraju Ganga Raju		BJP	85,351
27.	Eluru	84.27	Maganti Venkateswara Rao (Babu)		TDP	1,01,926
28.	Machilipatnam	83.48	Konakalla Narayana Rao		TDP	81,057
29.	Vijayawada	76.64	Kesineni Srinivas (Nani)		TDP	74,862
30.	Guntur	79.31	Jayadev Galla		TDP	69,111
31.	Narasaraopet	84.68	Rayapati Sambasiva Rao		TDP	35,280
32.	Bapatla	85.16	Malyadri Sriram		TDP	32,754
33.	Ongole	82.23	Y. V. Subba Reddy		YSRCP	15,658
34.	Nandyal	76.71	S. P. Y. Reddy		YSRCP	1,05,766
35.	Kurnool	72.08	Butta Renuka		YSRCP	44,131
36.	Anantapur	78.87	J. C. Diwakar Reddy		TDP	61,269
37.	Hindupur	81.53	Kristappa Nimmala		TDP	97,325
38.	Kadapa	77.47	Y. S. Avinash Reddy		YSRCP	1,90,323
39.	Nellore	74.02	Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy		YSRCP	13,478
40.	Tirupati	77.14	Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli		YSRCP	37,425
41.	Rajampet	78.05	P. V. Midhun Reddy		YSRCP	1,74,762
42.	Chittoor	82.59	Naramalli Sivaprasad		TDP	44,138

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

Assembly Segment wise lead

Andhra Pradesh

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2014 election)
	Telugu Desam Party	96	102
	Y. S. R. Congress Party	65	67
	Bharatiya Janata Party	14	4
	Others	0	2
Total		175

Telangana

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2014 election)
	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	67	63
	Indian National Congress	18	21
	Telugu Desam Party	8	15
	Bharatiya Janata Party	12	5
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	7	7
	Y. S. R. Congress Party	7	3
	Others	0	5
Total		119

Notes

1. Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly for Kuppam (re-elected)
2. Represents Pulivendla in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
3. Represents Amberpet in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
4. Represented Kalyandurg in the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly