Constituency
6. Pathapatnam
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-PATHAPATNAM
INC 58.7%won by 19.7%SWA 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.2% to 19.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.8% of the vote between them, up from 83.1% — 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
41,149
Margin
8,086
19.65%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1SUKKA PAGADALUIndian National Congress · INC24,16258.7%
- 2SEEMA RAJAIAHSwatantra Party · SWA16,07639.1%
- 3GUDIVADA APPA RAOIndependent · IND9112.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- +18.4%
- INC share
- 42.2% → 58.7%
- SWA share
- 41.0% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- — → —