Constituency
98. Bapatla
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1967
AP-BAPATLA
INC 56.6%won by 26.6%CPM 30.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 27.2% to 56.6% of the vote here (+29.4%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 30.0% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.5% of the vote between them, up from 56.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
57,151
Margin
15,227
26.64%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1K. P. RAOIndian National Congress · INC32,34456.6%
- 2K. V. RAOCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,11730.0%
- 3M. C. V. REDDYCommunist Party of India · CPI4,7258.3%
- 4K. V. V. RAJUBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,9655.2%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −0.5%
- INC share
- 27.2% → 56.6%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —