2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

In the 2000 Andhra Pradesh Assembly election, Congress had taken the lead, winning 156 of the 294 seats in the Assembly. As the leader of the Congress Legislature Party, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy was invited to form the government by Governor N. D. Tiwari.

Unexpectedly, the Government lasted for 4 years 9 months, and the president rule was imposed later which expired on 10 March 2014. The Election Commission of India (ECI) decided to hold the Assembly elections along with the general election. The election in each Assembly constituency (AC) was held in the same phase as the election to the corresponding Parliamentary constituency that the AC falls under.

On 3 October 2013, the Union Cabinet of India approved the creation of the new State of Telangana.^[2] On 2 June 2014 the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee issued a gazette notification which formalised the separation of Telangana from Andhra Pradesh.

The election was the first to be held after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, with the leftist parties contesting separately following differences over the creation of Telangana, which was supported by the Communist Party of India and opposed by the Communist Party of India (Marxist).^[4]

In Telangana, the CPI allied with the Indian National Congress while both parties contested separately in Andhra Pradesh.^[5] The CPI(M) had an electoral understanding with the YSR Congress Party in assembly constituencies under the Khammam and Mahabubabad parliament constituencies in Telangana,^[6][7] while contesting independently in Andhra Pradesh.^[8]

The Telugu Desam Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party contested together as part of the National Democratic Alliance in both states, with the support of the newly formed Janasena Party. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi contested independently in Telangana alone.

Former and last Chief Minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh N. Kiran Kumar Reddy formed the Jai Samaikyandhra Party, advocating the reunification of the state.^[9]

Telangana

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Alliance/Party				Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
								INC+		Indian National Congress			Ponnala Lakshmaiah	112+1	118+1
	Communist Party of India			Chada Venkat Reddy	6+1
	NDA		Telugu Desam Party			N. Chandrababu Naidu	72	117
			Bharatiya Janata Party			G. Kishan Reddy	45
	Telangana Rashtra Samithi					K. Chandrasekhar Rao	119
	YSRCP+		YSR Congress Party			Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy	70+22	83+22
			Communist Party of India (Marxist)			Tammineni Veerabhadram	13+22
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen					Akbaruddin Owaisi	20
	Lok Satta Party					Jaya Prakash Narayana	39
	Jai Samaikyandhra Party					Kiran Kumar Reddy	18

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Andhra Pradesh

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Alliance/Party				Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
								Indian National Congress					Raghu Veera Reddy	173
	NDA		Telugu Desam Party			N. Chandrababu Naidu	162+3	172+3
			Bharatiya Janata Party			Kambhampati Hari Babu	10+3
	YSR Congress Party					Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy	174
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)					B. V. Raghavulu	31
	Communist Party of India					K. Ramakrishna	31
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen					Akbaruddin Owaisi	15
	Lok Satta Party					Jaya Prakash Narayana	73
	Jai Samaikyandhra Party					Kiran Kumar Reddy	149

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The election was held in two phases alongside the 7th and 8th phases of the General Election, taking place on 30 April in Telangana, and on 7 May in the remainder of Andhra Pradesh.

Despite few clashes between supporters of rival parties in Seemandhra and Rayalaseema, the poll percentage was good on the polling day. The initial poll percentage appeared to be dull, but it soon picked up as time went on. Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar Lal told the media that he was confident that the turnout could be around 85–90% by the concluding time.^{[citation needed]}