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State: Andhra Pradesh
Constituency: Hyderabad
Total Votes Polled: 949560
Winner: AIMIM Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi 321045
Runner Up: BJP M Venkaiah Naidu 247772
Margin: 73273 (7.89%)

MIM country, actually. From 1984, the city seat has sent the party's chief Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi to the Lok Sabha every time, but more interestingly it is the BJP which has come second in both 1991 and 1996, but its tally has come down from 42.1 % to 26.68 in the same period.

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