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State:	Andhra Pradesh
Constituency:	Rajahmundry
Total Votes Polled:	769949
Winner: INC	Chitturi Ravindra	353861
Runner Up: TDP	Chundru Shihari Rao	258695
Margin: 95166 (12.58%)

Gorantla Butchaiah Chowdhary, the NTR-TDP nominee, won 122, 699 votes, taking the election from Chandrababu Naidu's TDP nominee. The combined TDP vote (50.42%) would have been enough to defeat the Congressman who won 46.78 % of the vote. Like Kakinada, this constituency too has seen a TDP-Congress-TDP-Congress pattern since 1984. Actress Jamuna won this seat in 1989 and lost it two years later.