Constituency
48. Kakinada
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-KAKINADA
IND 44.1%won by 6.1%INC 38.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.4% to 6.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.1% between them, down from 94.5% — 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
56,544
Margin
3,455
6.11%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1C V K RAOIndependent · IND24,93844.1%
- 2SHAIK KHADER MOHIUDDINIndian National Congress · INC21,48338.0%
- 3J S ATCHUTA RAMAYYAIndependent · IND8,30214.7%
- 4VADLAMANI VENKATA RAMANABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,2702.2%
- 5P V MARTHANDA BHIMAIndependent · IND4150.7%
- 6J SATYANARAYANA MURTHYIndependent · IND1360.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- −13.3%
- IND share
- 56.9% → 44.1%
- INC share
- 37.5% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- — → —