Constituency
102. Mangalagiri
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-MANGALAGIRI
CPI 28.7%won by 8.3%IND 20.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 8.3%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 20.4% — it polled just 1.1% in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 49.2% between them, down from 64.5% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
64,354
Margin
5,347
8.31%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1SRIKRISHNA VEMULAPALLICommunist Party of India · CPI18,49728.7%
- 2GUJJULA GANGADHARA REDDIIndependent · IND13,15020.4%
- 3T. NAGESWARA RAOIndian National Congress · INC13,01820.2%
- 4SIVREDDI SIMHADRICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,55418.0%
- 5KONDA SUBBA REDDINCO · NCO4,7857.4%
- 6RAMAKRISHNA THAMMISETTIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,4812.3%
- 7PUNNAIAH GANJIIndependent · IND1,2842.0%
- 8DAVIDRAJU SETTIIndependent · IND5850.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–IND swing
- −21.2%
- CPI share
- 30.6% → 28.7%
- IND share
- 1.1% → 20.4%
- Turnout
- — → —