Constituency
216. Medchal
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-MEDCHAL
INC 71.1%won by 53.5%IND 17.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
34,214
Margin
18,291
53.46%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1SUMITRA DEVIIndian National Congress · INC24,31771.1%
- 2VED PRAKASHIndependent · IND6,02617.6%
- 3A. M. SIVASHANKARIAHSTS · STS3,87111.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +3.6%
- INC share
- 65.6% → 71.1%
- IND share
- 15.7% → 17.6%
- Turnout
- — → —