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Constituency

216. Medchal

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Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972

AP-MEDCHAL

INC 71.1%won by 53.5%IND 17.6%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 49.8% to 53.5%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.7% of the vote between them, up from 81.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
  • 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
34,214
Margin
18,291
53.46%

Candidates

3 contested · winner INC
  1. 1SUMITRA DEVIIndian National Congress · INC24,31771.1%
  2. 2VED PRAKASHIndependent · IND6,02617.6%
  3. 3A. M. SIVASHANKARIAHSTS · STS3,87111.3%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INCIND swing
+3.6%
INC share
65.6% 71.1%
IND share
15.7% 17.6%
Turnout