Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 1985

Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election 1985

All 294 Legislative Assembly seats

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	N. T. Rama Rao	Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy
Party	TDP	INC
Leader's seat	Gudivada	yemmiganur
Last election	1983	1978
Seats before	202	60
Seats won	202	50
Seat change	0	10

Chief minister before election

N. T. Rama Rao
TDP

Elected Chief minister

N. T. Rama Rao
TDP

The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election of 1983 took place in January 1983 in 294 constituencies in Andhra Pradesh, India. The elections were conducted to elect the government in the state of Andhra Pradesh for the next five years. The TDP secured a huge majority winning 202 seats. The Indian National Congress winning only 60 seats. The election was held in January 1983 instead of August 1983 as scheduled. NTR was sworn in as the 10th and the first non-Congress Chief Minister of the state on 9 January 1983 with ten cabinet ministers and five ministers of State.

Results

s.no	party	seats contested	seats won	seats change	vote share	swing
1	Telugu Desam Party	250	202	+0	46.21%	-7.50%
2	Indian National Congress	290	50	-10	37.25%	+3.67%
3	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	12	11	+6	2.31%	+0.20%
4	Communist Party of India	12	11	+7	2.69%	-0.10%
5	Bharatiya Janata Party	10	8	+3	1.32%	-1.14%
6	Janata Party	5	3	+2	0.76%	-0.20%

References

Elections in Andhra Pradesh

Legislative Assembly elections	1955 1957 1962 1967 1972 1978 1983 1985 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014

General elections	1951–52 1957 1962 1967 1971 1977 1980 1984 1989 1991 1996 1998 1999 2004 2009 2014

Elections in India

General elections	1920 1923 1926 1930 1934 1945 1951–52 1957 1962 1967 1971 1977 1980 1984 1989 1991 1996 1998 1999 2004 2009 2014 next

State elections	1920 1923 1926 1930 1934 1937 1946 1952 1954 1955 1957 1960 1961 1962 1964 1965 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1974 1975 1977 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1985 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

See also: Elections in Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Puducherry Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Telangana Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Bengal

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