Constituency
83. Gannavaram
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-GANNAVARAM
INC 42.1%won by 0.7%CPM 41.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.6% to 0.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.5% 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
51,484
Margin
355
0.69%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1E S ANANDA BAI TAPPATAIndian National Congress · INC21,66242.1%
- 2ATLURU SRIMANNARAYANACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM21,30741.4%
- 3K PEDA VENKATRAYUDUCommunist Party of India · CPI6,44412.5%
- 4BOYAPATI PAPA RAOIndependent · IND9651.9%
- 5NANDURI SITHAPATHIIndependent · IND6771.3%
- 6KASUKURTI VENKATARATNAMIndependent · IND4290.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −7.0%
- INC share
- 53.8% → 42.1%
- CPM share
- 46.2% → 41.4%
- Turnout
- — → —