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State: Andhra Pradesh
Constituency: Bobbili
Total Votes Polled: 640026
Winner: TDP Kondapalli Pydithalli Naidu 276298
Runner Up: INC Botcha Satyanarayana 255331
Margin: 20967 (3.35%)

Baburao Gadde, the NTR-TDP candidate, won 72,230 votes. This seat has been a bastion of the House of Vizianagram. P V Gajapati Raju won it twice, so did his son Ananda Gajapati Raju. Cricket fans will remember Vizianagaram for 'Vizzy' -- aka Sir Gajapatiraju Vijaya Ananda -- who led the Indian cricket team on its controversial 1936 tour of England. The same tour Lala Amarnath was sent home.

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