TDTelugu Desam PartyState partyTDP
Contested 11 general elections between 1984 and 2024, winning 148 Lok Sabha seats from 343 candidacies. 1,089 assembly seats won in 3 states.
Lok Sabha overall · since 1984
11
Elections contested
148
Seats won, all time
30
Best result (1984)
2.9%
Avg. vote share
343 candidacies fielded in total
Latest (2024)
16
17 contested · 1.98% of the national vote
Strike rate, all time
43.1%
seats won per seat contested
Seats won
Across every general election contested, Lok Sabha
Results Overview
- Won148 (43%)
- Lost195 (57%)
National vote share
Share of all valid votes cast in India, not of seats contested
A regional party fighting 40 seats out of 543 is capped at a low national share however well it does. Read this line against the seats chart above, not on its own.
Key highlights
- Best-ever result was 30 seats in 1984, on 4.06% of the national vote.
- At the 2024 election it contested 17 seats and won 16, a 94% strike rate.
- Strongest constituency is SRIKAKULAM, Andhra Pradesh, won 5 times, most recently in 2004.
- Holds a state assembly record in 3 states, with 1,089 assembly seats won overall.
Totals
Across 11 general elections the party has polled 12.3 cr votes and lost 9 deposits. It has won 1,089 assembly seats across 13 state elections. Machine-readable at /api/parties/tdp.
