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Significant swing in vote share against TDP-BJP

By Aniket Alam

HYDERABAD, MAY 13. The most significant statistic illuminating the nature of the Telugu Desam Party - Bharatiya Janata Party combine's defeat in the Parliamentary elections in the State is that they received a smaller vote share from the 42 seats they contested than what the Congress alone got from the 34 seats it contested.

The TDP-BJP alliance experienced a substantial 8.23 per cent swing in vote share against it from the 1999 elections. But as in the Assembly elections, only a part of this swing went to the Congress-led alliance, which gained 5.24 per cent votes compared to the previous Parliamentary elections.

The other significant gainers from the TDP-BJP's loss of vote share were independents who together received 2.73 per cent more votes as well as the Bahujan Samaj Party which got 1.4 per cent votes.

The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen too lost in vote share by about 0.17 per cent even though its winning candidate from Hyderabad, Asasuddin Owaisi , increased his margin of victory by about 40,000 votes.

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