Constituency
61. Achanta
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1967
AP-ACHANTA
INC 51.9%won by 12.6%CPM 39.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 46.4% to 51.9% of the vote here (+5.5%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 39.3% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.2% between them, down from 97.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
60,912
Margin
7,695
12.63%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1D. PERUMALLUIndian National Congress · INC31,63051.9%
- 2D. S. RAJUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM23,93539.3%
- 3P. S. RAOCommunist Party of India · CPI4,5967.5%
- 4P. N. MURTYIndependent · IND7511.2%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −33.7%
- INC share
- 46.4% → 51.9%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 39.3%
- Turnout
- — → —