Constituency
256. Cheriyal
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1967
AP-CHERIYAL
CPI 43.2%won by 7.0%INC 36.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 7.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 37.9% to 43.2% of the vote here (+5.3%).
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
35,178
Margin
2,460
6.99%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1B. ABRAHAMCommunist Party of India · CPI15,19543.2%
- 2G. RAMALINGAMIndian National Congress · INC12,73536.2%
- 3K. DEVADANAMSwatantra Party · SWA7,24820.6%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +12.9%
- CPI share
- 37.9% → 43.2%
- INC share
- 43.7% → 36.2%
- Turnout
- — → —