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HYDERABAD: The elections will play with the nerves of the candidates. The candidates wait for the result with nervousness for days together. If the margins are big enough, the candidates will

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HYDERABAD: The elections will play with the nerves of the candidates. The candidates wait for the result with nervousness for days together. If the margins are big enough, the candidates will be at ease and if things go wrong and margins becomes slender, they will feel a literal hell till the result is declared.

If the results in 44 constituencies of the state are observed which were won with below 2,000 votes margin, one can tell easily how the polls play with the fate of the candidates.

In the Assembly elections, in about 44 constituencies the candidates win the polls with below 2,000 margin.

While the Congress had won 25 seats with such a slender margin, the Telugu Desam won 13, the Telangana Rashta Samiti won 2 and the Praja Rajyam won 4. The Congress party had won the Janagao constituency with 296 votes, Kaluwakurty with 597, Pinapaka with 349 and Penamaluru with 177 votes.

In case of Telugu Desam party its candidates won the Uravakonda with 242 votes, Adoni with 256 and Mudhol with 183 votes. While the Praja Rajyam party had won the Nellore city with 90 votes and won the Vijayawada east with 190 votes.  

keen-contest const ituencies

1. Mudhol ----------------- K Venugopalachary (TDP) ----- 183 2. Bodhan ----------------- P Sudharshan Reddy (INC) ---- 1,275 3. Sircilla --------------- K Taraka Rama Rao (TRS) ----- 171 4. Vemulawada ------------- Ch Ramesh (TDP) ------------- 1,989 5. Dharmapuri ------------- K Eeswar (TRS) -------------- 1,799 6. Patancheru ------------- Nandeeswar Goud (INC) ------- 1,247 7. Serlingampally --------- Bikshapati Yadav (INC) ------ 1,330 8. Alampur ---------------- Abraham (INC) --------------- 1,194 9. Kalvakurthy ------------ Jaipal Yadav (INC) ---------- 597 10. Kollapur --------------- J Krishna Rao (INC) --------- 1,754 11. Janagam ---------------- P Lakshmaiah (INC) ---------- 236 12. Pinapaka --------------- Kantha Rao (INC) ------------ 349 13. Madhira ---------------- M Bhattivikramarka (INC) ---- 1,397 14. Tekkali ---------------- Revatipati (INC) ------------ 1,830 15. Nellimerla ------------- Appalanaidu (INC) ----------- 597 16. Visakhapatnam (South) -- Dronamraju Srinivas (INC) --- 341 17. Chodavaram ------------- KNMS Raju (TDP) ------------- 1,433 18. Araku ------------------ Siveri Soma (TDP) ----------- 618 19. Paderu ----------------- P Balaraju (INC) ------------ 405 20. Payakaraopeta ---------- Babu Rao (INC) -------------- 656 21. Pithapuram ------------- Vanga Geeta (PRP) ----------- 1,036 22. Mummidivaram ----------- Srinivasa Raju (TDP) -------- 1,851 23. Rajahmundry (City) ----- Suryaprakash Rao (INC) ------ 1,284 24. Rajahmundry (Rural) ---- C Ramesh (TDP) -------------- 1,547 25. Jaggampeta ------------- T Narasimham (INC) ---------- 789 26. Tanuku ----------------- K Nageswara Rao (INC) ------- 1,213 27. Chintalapudi ----------- Rajesh Kumar (INC) ---------- 1,112 28. Tiruvuru --------------- D Padma Jyothi (INC) -------- 265 29. Kaikaluru -------------- G Venkataramana (TDP) ------- 974 30. Pedana ----------------- J Ramesh Goud (INC) --------- 1,092 31. Avanigadda ------------- Brahmanaiah (TDP) ----------- 417 32. Penamuluru ------------- K Parthasarathi (INC) ------- 177 33. Vijayawada (Central) --- Malladi Vishnu (INC) -------- 738 34. Vijayawada (East) ------ Y Ravi (PRP) ---------------- 190 35. Bapatla ---------------- G Venkata Reddy (INC) ------- 1,363 36. Nellore (City) --------- Sridhar Krishna Reddy (PRP) ----- 90 37. Allagadda -------------- Shobha Nagireddy (PRP) ------ 1,958 38. Adhoni ----------------- Meenakshi Naidu (TDP) ------- 256 39. Uravakonda ------------- Payyavula Keshav (TDP) ------ 242 40. Rapthadu --------------- Paritala Suneetha (TDP) ----- 1,950 41. Puttaparthy ------------ Raghunath Reddy (TDP) ------- 1,021 42. Nagari ----------------- Muddu Krishnama Naidu (TDP) - 1,633 43. Chittoor --------------- CK Babu (INC) --------------- 1,710 44. Puthalapattu ----------- P Ravi (INC) ---------------- 1,005 

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