Constituency
6. Pathapatnam
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1978
AP-PATHAPATNAM
IND 32.4%won by 1.3%JNP 31.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 1.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 2.2% to 32.4% of the vote here (+30.1%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 31.0% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.4% between them, down from 97.8% — 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
61,614
Margin
824
1.34%
Candidates
7 contested · winner IND- 1KALAMATA MOHANARAOIndependent · IND19,93532.4%
- 2LUKULAPU LAKSHMANADASJanata Party · JNP19,11131.0%
- 3KAMAKSHI PRASAD BRAHMAIndian National Congress · INC12,14119.7%
- 4DARAPU GOVINDA RAJULUCommunist Party of India · CPI6,63910.8%
- 5VARANASI NARAYANARAOIndependent · IND2,0713.4%
- 6KILLAMSETTY TRINADU KUMARIndependent · IND1,1521.9%
- 7LINGALA JANARDHANARAOIndependent · IND5650.9%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–JNP swing
- −0.9%
- IND share
- 2.2% → 32.4%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 31.0%
- Turnout
- — → —