Constituency
176. Adoni
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-ADONI
INC 51.1%won by 24.0%IND 27.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.2% to 24.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Swatantra Party (SWA) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.2% between them, down from 93.6% — 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
46,169
Margin
11,086
24.01%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1H. SATHYA NARAYANAIndian National Congress · INC23,60551.1%
- 2C. SANKAR RAOIndependent · IND12,51927.1%
- 3N. RAMACHANDRA REDDYCommunist Party of India · CPI8,29918.0%
- 4MUZAFFAR ALIKHANIndependent · IND1,0392.3%
- 5SIVASANKARAYYAIndependent · IND7071.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −33.6%
- INC share
- 62.4% → 51.1%
- IND share
- 4.7% → 27.1%
- Turnout
- — → —