Constituency
223. Zahirabad
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-ZAHIRABAD
INC 49.1%won by 0.7%IND 48.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.4% to 0.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.4% of the vote between them, up from 89.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 367 votes (0.66%) — among the closest results anywhere.
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
55,292
Margin
367
0.66%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1M BAGA REDDYIndian National Congress · INC27,12149.1%
- 2NARAYAN REDDYIndependent · IND26,75448.4%
- 3MOHD KHAJA ALIIndependent · IND1,2752.3%
- 4S M HASHIMIndependent · IND1420.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −12.7%
- INC share
- 51.4% → 49.1%
- IND share
- 38.0% → 48.4%
- Turnout
- — → —