Election
Constituency

79. Kankipadu

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Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972

AP-KANKIPADU

INC 47.0%won by 18.2%CPI 28.8%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.9% to 18.2%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 28.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.

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
59,839
Margin
10,895
18.21%

Candidates

6 contested · winner INC
  1. 1AKKINENI BHASKRA RAOIndian National Congress · INC28,11147.0%
  2. 2YNENI LAKSHMAN SWAMYCommunist Party of India · CPI17,21628.8%
  3. 3DONTIREDDI SUBBA REDDIIndependent · IND10,75518.0%
  4. 4BANARUPALLI PRABHU DASUIndependent · IND1,9253.2%
  5. 5CHAKKA VENKATA SUBBA RAOIndependent · IND1,1171.9%
  6. 6S R VEERAMACHANENIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7151.2%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–CPI swing
−37.7%
INC share
56.0% → 47.0%
CPI share
0.0% → 28.8%
Turnout
— → —
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