Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 2004

Elections to the 12th term of the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly were held in 2004. This was a significant mandate as the Telugu Desam Party lost pathetically, owing to a strong anti-incumbency wave against the TDP governance.A severe drought hit the state of Andhra Pradesh during this period, leading to increased farmer suicides in the state, which in turn gripped Naidu’s rule in the state. Out of 267 Assembly constituencies in which the TDP contested, it managed to win only 47 seats. This loss was also attributed to Chandrababu Naidu’s failure to reach the large rural poor populations in the state and his ignorance to address the poverty of these people through his policies. The Congress came back to power in Andhra Pradesh, winning a massive 185 assembly constituencies out of the 234 seats in which it contested. The current home minister of the Congress-led Union government, Sushil Kumar Shinde, was nominated as the governor of Andhra Pradesh during this period till 2006, before he was replaced by Rameshwar Thakur and finally by Narayan Dutt Tiwari. K.R. Suresh Reddy served as the speaker of the AP Vidhan Sabha during this tenure of the Congress rule. Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy of the Congress became the chief minister of the state for the full five-year term of the assembly. More than anything else, Y. S. Reddy’s rule saw a significant weakening of the ultra-left radicalism of the Naxal Movement, which had gained immense vigour during the previous TDP government’s rule. He also specifically looked into the concerns and interests of the farmers and the rural poor, by providing free electricity to the rural regions of AP as part of his campaign projects, as well as providing farmer loans at low interest rates.

Some of the most important legislations passed by the Congress government during this period were the Andhra Pradesh Value Added Tax Act of 2005, the Andhra Pradesh Buildings Control Act of 2005, and the Andhra Pradesh Farmers Agricultural Debtors Act of 2004.

List of Participating Political Parties in Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election in 2004