Constituency
285. Bhongir
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-BHONGIR
INC 51.0%won by 26.7%CPM 24.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.4% to 26.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.2% between them, down from 84.0% — the field split more ways.
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
56,971
Margin
15,234
26.74%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −21.1%
- INC share
- 56.2% → 51.0%
- CPM share
- 8.3% → 24.2%
- Turnout
- — → —