Constituency
237. Boath
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-BOATH
INC 58.2%won by 31.1%CPI 27.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.0% to 31.1%.
- 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
41,582
Margin
12,939
31.12%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1DEV SHAH S AIndian National Congress · INC24,18158.2%
- 2ARKA RAMA RAOCommunist Party of India · CPI11,24227.0%
- 3MARAKULA KASIRAMIndependent · IND6,15914.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +13.1%
- INC share
- 52.2% → 58.2%
- CPI share
- 34.2% → 27.0%
- Turnout
- — → —