Constituency
170. Gooty
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-GOOTY
IND 39.0%won by 0.9%INC 38.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.5% to 0.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 471 votes (0.92%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
51,261
Margin
471
0.92%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1DUDDE KUNTA VENKATAREDDYIndependent · IND19,97439.0%
- 2R. SULTANIndian National Congress · INC19,50338.0%
- 3THAKKALLAPALLI PAPA SAHIBIndependent · IND8,29916.2%
- 4G. VENKATA NAIDUIndependent · IND2,1394.2%
- 5PASSAVULA PEDDA SUBBAIAHNCO · NCO1,3462.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- −7.6%
- IND share
- 44.3% → 39.0%
- INC share
- 35.8% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- — → —