The United Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 1999 was conducted in 3 phases simultaneously with the

1999 Indian general election General elections were held in India between 5 September and 3 October 1999, a few months after the Kargil War. Results were announced on 6 October 1999. The elections saw the National Democratic Alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party win ...

for the

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. The election was held on 4 September 1999, 11 September 1999 and 17 September 1999 for 91, 105 and 98 constitutencies respectively. The election concluded with the

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sweeping the polls with 180 seats and forming the

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once again.

Background

The incumbent

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led Telugu Desam Party swept the polls along with

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as part of pre-poll alliance where Naidu agreed to extend his outside support to the

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government in the simultaneous 1999 general election. The Telugu Desam Party bagged enough numbers i.e 180 seats (majority) and formed the

for another term. N. Chandrababu Naidu was once again invited to form the government by the

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C. Rangarajan The other new parties like

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led by

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and NTR Telugu Desam Party led by Lakshmi Parvathi although managed to split the voting share of the Naidu led Telugu Desam Party but did not gain any single seat in the election. The opposition

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led by Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy was only restricted to 91 seats.

Schedule

Incidents

The polling in the naxal effected

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was concluded with over 60% of voting. People abstained from voting in two booths at Sarangapalli village in response to a poll boycott given by the Naxalites of the banned

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. Another incident of bomb blast took place in the same naxal affected constituency. The polling in the constituency, which was scheduled for the first phase on September 5, was postponed after the bomb blast at the residence-cum-nursing home of Panchayat Raj Minister

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, in which four people including an independent candidate were killed.

Results

Results by party

Results by district

Results by constituency

References

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