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40. Rajahmundry

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Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972

AP-RAJAHMUNDRY

INC 48.1%won by 6.7%CPI 41.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.7%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 39.5% to 48.1% of the vote here (+8.6%).
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
55,806
Margin
3,724
6.67%

Candidates

5 contested · winner INC
  1. 1BATHULA MALLIKARJUNARAOIndian National Congress · INC26,82948.1%
  2. 2P CHOWDARY CHITTURICommunist Party of India · CPI23,10541.4%
  3. 3BALAJI DAS G SCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,7996.8%
  4. 4ERRA VENKATASRIRAMARAOIndependent · IND1,7783.2%
  5. 5GODAVARI MARRIRPK · RPK2950.5%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–CPI swing
+16.0%
INC share
39.5% → 48.1%
CPI share
48.8% → 41.4%
Turnout
— → —
39. Burugupudi41. Kadiam
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