Constituency
24. Visakhapatnam I
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-VISAKHAPATNAM-I
INC 44.8%won by 13.9%CPI 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.8% to 44.8% of the vote here (+15.0%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 30.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.8% between them, down from 88.7% — 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
50,782
Margin
7,059
13.90%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SRI M R DEENIndian National Congress · INC22,77544.8%
- 2YELAMANCHILI VIJAYAKUMARCommunist Party of India · CPI15,71630.9%
- 3G RAJU AICHUTARAMA RBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,64613.1%
- 4ALWARDAS SUNKARIIndependent · IND4,7439.3%
- 5IYALAPAKA RAMARAOIndependent · IND9021.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −15.9%
- INC share
- 29.8% → 44.8%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → —