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State:	Andhra Pradesh
Constituency:	Ongole
Total Votes Polled:	765305
Winner: INC	Parvathamma Magunta	381475
Runner Up: TDP	Rajmohan Reddy M	331415
Margin: 50060 (6.62%)

The NTR-TDP candidate fared poorly, winning a mere 13, 621 votes. The Congress won the seat three times in a row, increasing its vote share marginally from 1991 (49.7%) to 50.42%. In 1989, at the height of the anti-Rajiv wave, it had as much as 56.1 % of the vote. The TDP has won this seat only once, in 1984 with 50.9% of the vote.