A difference of 6.86 per cent of the votes polled between the Telugu Desam-BJP combine and the Congs(I) led to the rout of the Cong(I) in the elections to Lok Sabha from AP. The Cong(I) polled 42.90% of the votes and obtained five seats while the Telugu Desam-BJP combine polled 49.76%of the vote and got 36 seats. The Telugu Desam, contesting 34 seats, obtained 39.78% of the vote while the BJP, contesting eight seats, got 9.98% of vote.

An analysis of the voting figures shows that the Congress(I) tally of Lok Sabha seats did not reflect its strength of 90 seats in the Assembly, because its victory margins were small while the Telugu Desam's margins were big, and so, though the Congress(I) won in four out of seven Assembly segments, it lost the Lok Sabha seats because of bigger margins of the ruling combine ... (Source: R.J. Rajendra Prasad in The Hindu, 10 October, 1999)

On West Bengal

Despite conceding five seats to the Trinamul Congress-BJP combine, the CPI(M)-led Left front has been able to keep its overall percentage of votes intact in West Bengal. But the vote-share of the Congress(I), which fared better in some areas of North Bengal and emerged victorious in Berhampore, dropped by two per cent and helped the Trinamul Congress-BJP alliance wrest three seats from the CPI(M).

The Congress(I) bagged 13.29 per cent votes as against 15.20 in the 1998 election ... Even as the Congress improved its fortunes to some extent in some pockets of North Bengal, in most of the 42 constituencies the party candidates finished third. The State Congress president, A. B. A. Ghani Khan Chowdhury, retained the Malda seat by a reduced margin and the PCC working president, P. R. Dasmunshi, wrested the Raigunj seat from the CPI-M. But what surprised everyone was the victory of The Congress(I) candidate from Berhampore Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury which except in 1984, the Revolutionary Socialist Party never lost ... (Source: PTI in The Hindu, 10 October, 1999)

Uttar Pradesh

... The ruling BJP lies decimated a the Lok Sabha elections, losing as many as 28 seats from its previous tally of 57. The BJP yielded as many as 14 seats to Samajwadi Party and 10 to Congrese Though BJP's loss was huge, the party also gained seven new seats in its modest tally of 29 with six coming from SP and one from BSP.

The Samajwadi Party ... bagged 26 seats, six more than its previous tally of 20. While it retained 10 seats it had held in 1998, it wrested 16 seats - as many as 14 from BJP and two from BSP. The BSP also posted spectacular victories, bagging 14 seats compared to just four in the previous elections. While it retained four from its previous tally, the party gained nine from BJP :.. and one from SP.  

(Apart from 10 won by Congress, BJP's loss of 28 seats turned out to be a gain for BSP, SP and Ajit Singh's RLD which together wrested 18 seats from the saffron party ... The BJP received its worst drubbing ... since it stormed into the political scene riding high on the Ayodhya Movement in 1991, bagging 51 seats and 32 per cent votes. In subsequent elections the party grew stronger (with) 52 seats in 1996 and 57 in 1998. (Source: The Statesman, 11 October, 1999)