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State:	Andhra Pradesh
Constituency:	Bapatla
Total Votes Polled:	675719
Winner: TDP	Ummareddy Venkateswarlu	276064
Runner Up: INC	Vijaya Prad Arya	267802
Margin: 8262 (1.24%)

The margin of victory in 1991 was slim! Just 0.2 % separated the TDP and Congress nominees. In 1996, the TDP candidate had increased it to 1.24 % marginally. One of the rare AP constituencies where the BJP has made some impact. In 1971, the Jan Sangh candidate came in second; in 1989, the BJP's Venkaiah Naidu -- the runner-up -- won as much as 45.9 % of the vote. In 1991, however, this had gone down to 3 %; in 1996, it was even worse at 0.99%.