1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

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1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

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All 294 seats in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly 148 seats needed for a majority
Registered	31,846,694
Turnout	21,560,642 (67.70%) 5.22%
Majority party Minority party   Leader N. T. Rama Rao Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Party TDP INC(I) Leader's seat Gudivada (won; retained), Tirupati (won; vacated) Yemmiganur (won) Last election Party did not exist 175 seats, 39.25% Seats won 201 60 Seat change New party 115 Popular vote 9,777,222 7,090,907 Percentage 46.30% 33.58% Swing New party 5.67%
Chief minister before election Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy INC(I) Elected Chief minister N. T. Rama Rao TDP

The 1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election was held in May 1983 for all 294 constituencies in Andhra Pradesh.^[1] The elections were conducted to elect the government in the state of Andhra Pradesh for the following five years. The TDP secured a huge majority winning 202 seats. The Indian National Congress secured only 60 seats. The election was held in January 1983 instead of August 1983 as scheduled. N. T. Rama Rao 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.