2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

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All 294 seats in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly 148 seats needed for a majority
Registered	51,146,498
Turnout	35,780,385 (69.96%) 0.81%
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy N. Chandrababu Naidu K. Chandrashekar Rao Party INC TDP TRS Alliance UPA NDA UPA Leader since 1999 1995 2001 Leader's seat Pulivendula (won) Kuppam (won) Siddipet (won; vacated)[a] Last election 91 seats, 40.61% 180 seats, 43.87% Party did not exist Seats won 185 47 26 Seat change 94 133 New party Popular vote 13,793,461 13,444,168 2,390,940 Percentage 38.56% 37.59% 6.68% Swing 2.05% 6.28% New party
2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election results
Chief minister before election N. Chandrababu Naidu TDP Chief Minister after election Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy INC

The 2004 Andhra Pradesh Assembly election, was held in 2004 with the Indian National Congress winning 185 of the 294^[1] seats in the Assembly.^[2]

In the history of Andhra Pradesh, it was the first time the grand old party entered into an alliance with a regional party.^[3] And the Congress' pre-poll alliance partners CPI, CPI(M) and TRS^[4] also did well winning 15 and 26 seats respectively, taking the UPA tally to 226.^[5] As the leader of the Congress Legislature Party, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy was invited to form the Government by Governor Surjit Singh Barnala. Expectedly, the Government lasted the full term of 5 years and the tenure of the Legislative Assembly was due to expire on 30 May 2009. The Election Commission of India (ECI) decided to hold the Assembly elections along with the general election. The election in each Assembly constituency (AC) was held in the same phase as the election to the corresponding Parliamentary constituency that the AC falls under.^[6]

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