Constituency
273. Palair
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-PALAIR
INC 67.1%won by 41.7%CPM 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.8% to 41.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.4% of the vote between them, up from 75.0% — 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
58,866
Margin
24,552
41.71%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1KATHULA SHANTHAHIndian National Congress · INC39,47767.1%
- 2BAJI HANUMANTHUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,92525.4%
- 3GUNTETI NARASIAHIndependent · IND4,4647.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +27.9%
- INC share
- 44.4% → 67.1%
- CPM share
- 30.6% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- — → —