Election
Constituency

112. Chirala

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Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972

AP-CHIRALA

INC 49.0%won by 1.0%IND 48.0%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.7% to 1.0%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.0% of the vote between them, up from 88.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 598 votes (0.99%) — among the closest results anywhere.

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
60,143
Margin
598
0.99%

Candidates

5 contested · winner INC
  1. 1KOTAIAH GUDDANTIIndian National Congress · INC29,47649.0%
  2. 2SAJJA CHANDRAIndependent · IND28,87848.0%
  3. 3NOONEY KOTESWARA GUPTABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8861.5%
  4. 4G. N. RAJA RAOIndependent · IND4740.8%
  5. 5SYED MASTHANIndependent · IND4290.7%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–IND swing
−3.7%
INC share
46.7% → 49.0%
IND share
42.0% → 48.0%
Turnout
— → —
111. Parchur113. Addanki
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