Constituency
172. Anantapur
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-ANANTAPUR
INC 63.1%won by 41.1%IND 22.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 41.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 42.2% to 63.1% of the vote here (+20.8%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 22.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.0% between them, down from 90.4% — 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
36,277
Margin
14,912
41.11%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1ANANTHA VENKATAREDDYIndian National Congress · INC22,87663.1%
- 2KARANAM RAMACHANDRA RAOIndependent · IND7,96422.0%
- 3B. V. SUBBARAJUIndependent · IND2,1736.0%
- 4VEDANTAM LAKSHMAYYAIndependent · IND1,8965.2%
- 5MANUR RAMACHANDRA RAOSOP · SOP1,3683.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −1.1%
- INC share
- 42.2% → 63.1%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 22.0%
- Turnout
- — → —