Constituency
46. Pithapuram
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-PITHAPURAM
INC 38.0%won by 3.3%CPI 34.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.7% to 3.3%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- 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
55,555
Margin
1,852
3.33%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1YALLA SURYANARAYANAMURTYIndian National Congress · INC21,10338.0%
- 2K VENKATA KONDALA RAOCommunist Party of India · CPI19,25134.7%
- 3THAMMIRAJU PEKETIIndependent · IND14,20525.6%
- 4VENKATESWARA RAO PITTARPK · RPK9961.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −17.0%
- INC share
- 40.8% → 38.0%
- CPI share
- 20.5% → 34.7%
- Turnout
- — → —