Constituency
77. Vijayawada East
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-VIJAYAWADA-EAST
INC 41.6%won by 12.5%CPI 29.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.9% to 12.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.7% between them, down from 86.7% — 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
58,545
Margin
7,335
12.53%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1RAMA RAO DAMMALAPATIIndian National Congress · INC24,35641.6%
- 2VENKATA RATNAM CHALASAMICommunist Party of India · CPI17,02129.1%
- 3V SESHA CHALAPATHI RAOIndependent · IND9,90316.9%
- 4VENKATASWAMY JAKKAIndependent · IND6,42811.0%
- 5LAVANAMIndependent · IND6511.1%
- 6VENKATA REDDITIYAGURAIndependent · IND1860.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −4.4%
- INC share
- 51.8% → 41.6%
- CPI share
- 34.9% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- — → —