Constituency
40. Rajahmundry
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1978
AP-RAJAHMUNDRY
INC 46.9%won by 20.6%CPI 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.7% to 20.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.2% between them, down from 89.5% — the field split more ways.
- 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
74,760
Margin
15,432
20.64%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1TADAVARTHI SATYAVATHIIndian National Congress · INC35,07946.9%
- 2CHITTURI PRABHAKARA CHOWDARYCommunist Party of India · CPI19,64726.3%
- 3G. S. BALAJI DAS ( GURUVUGARI SIMHACHALA BALAJI DAS ) MCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM19,62026.2%
- 4BHASKAR PATEL ( PATELKHANA BHASKARARAO )Independent · IND4140.6%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +14.0%
- INC share
- 48.1% → 46.9%
- CPI share
- 41.4% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —