Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 1985
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
(Redirected from Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Elections 1985)
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
All 294 Legislative Assembly seats |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election of 1983 took place in January 1983 in 294 constituencies in Andhra Pradesh, India. The elections were conducted to elect the government in the state of Andhra Pradesh for the next five years. The TDP secured a huge majority winning 202 seats. The Indian National Congress winning only 60 seats. The election was held in January 1983 instead of August 1983 as scheduled. NTR was sworn in as the 10th and the first non-Congress Chief Minister of the state on 9 January 1983 with ten cabinet ministers and five ministers of State.
Results
s.no | party | seats contested | seats won | seats change | vote share | swing |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Telugu Desam Party | 250 | 202 | +0 | 46.21% | -7.50% |
2 | Indian National Congress | 290 | 50 | -10 | 37.25% | +3.67% |
3 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 12 | 11 | +6 | 2.31% | +0.20% |
4 | Communist Party of India | 12 | 11 | +7 | 2.69% | -0.10% |
5 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 10 | 8 | +3 | 1.32% | -1.14% |
6 | Janata Party | 5 | 3 | +2 | 0.76% | -0.20% |