My interest in these elections was to see how Loksatta would do. Loksatta won 1.72 percent of the total vote. Jayaprakash Narayan is the only Loksatta leader to be going into the Assembly.
Why Congress won - Anti-Congress vote got divided between the other 3 parties, hence Congress still won despite getting only 37% of the total votes.
http://election.rediff.com/report/2009/may/17/loksabhapoll-2-percent-votes-made-the-difference-in-andhra-assembly.htm
Excerpt -
If Congress polled 37.03 percent votes on its own, about 63 percent votes were divided among the other parties. The Grand Alliance of four parties secured 35.56 percent of votes, about 1.5 percent less than that of the Congress.
Chiranjeevi's [Images] Praja Rajyam Party caused good amount of damage to the opposition was apparent from the fact that in its first election the party polled 15.6 percent of the votes and bagged 18 assembly seats. The BJP which contested 269 assembly seats polled 2.88 percent of votes and bagged two seats. The Lok Satta polled 1.72 percent of votes and got one seat. MIM increased its strength to 7 against five in last elections and polled about 1 percent of the votes.
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Yes, my thesis is simple. babu and chiru made a strategic mistake not to
tie-up and fight jointly. Each thought they could win on own and were
selfish. All it did was split the anti-congress vote. Babu got 26%
vote and chiru got 16% vote. congress got 36% vote. Imagine what would
have happened if tdp+prp.
JP won only one seat , and only 1.7 % of total vote statewide. very
sad, and shows the state of andhra people. We get what we deserve ...
a corrupt govt. Even bjp got 3% vote in state, more than JP.
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