Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 1989

Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election 1989
India

All 294 Legislative Assembly seats
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Marri Chenna Reddy N. T. Rama Rao
Party INC TDP
Leader's seat hindupur
Last election 1985 1985
Seats before 50 202
Seats won 181 74
Seat change Increase131 Decrease128

Chief minister before election

N.T. Rama Rao
TDP

Elected Chief minister

Marri Chenna Reddy
Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy
Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy
INC

In the 1989 Andhra Pradesh Assembly election, the Congress(I) swept the polls, winning 181 of the 294 seats in the Assembly.[3] As the leader of the Congress Legislature Party, M.C Reddy was elected the Chief Minister. The TDP won only 74 seats from the 216 seats won by it in 1985.[4] General Elections were held in the same year and resulted in the INC(I) winning in 39 out of 42 Lok Sabha constituencies. It's rival, the TDP won only in 2 Lok Sabha constituencies.

Results

s.no party seats contested seats won seats change vote share swing
1 Indian National Congress 287 181 +131 47.09% +3.67%
2 Telugu Desam Party 241 74 -128 36.54% -9.67%
3 Communist Party of India 19 8 -3 2.31% -0.05%
4 Communist Party of India (Marxist) 15 6 -5 2.46% +0.15%
5 Bharatiya Janata Party 12 5 -3 1.78% +0.46%
6 Janata Dal 4 1 +1 0.37% +0.37%
7 All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen 35 4 +4 1.99 +1.99%
8 Independent (politician) 15 +6 6.58% -2.52%

References

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