Constituency
260. Metpalli
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
AP-METPALLI
INC 61.4%won by 41.3%CPI 20.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: People'S Democratic Front (PDF) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 41.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 22.9% to 61.4% of the vote here (+38.5%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 20.1% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.4% of the vote between them, up from 54.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
34,793
Margin
14,374
41.31%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1VIJAYARANGA RAOIndian National Congress · INC21,35261.4%
- 2CHILUVERI PRABHAKARCommunist Party of India · CPI6,97820.1%
- 3ITTADI NARSINGUIndependent · IND4,24812.2%
- 4T. MALLAYASwatantra Party · SWA2,2156.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +18.4%
- INC share
- 22.9% → 61.4%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 20.1%
- Turnout
- — → —