Constituency
256. Cheriyal
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-CHERIYAL
INC 57.0%won by 36.7%CPI 20.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 36.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 36.2% to 57.0% of the vote here (+20.8%).
- 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
38,120
Margin
13,999
36.72%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +43.7%
- INC share
- 36.2% → 57.0%
- CPI share
- 43.2% → 20.2%
- Turnout
- — → —