Constituency
51. Ramachandrapuram
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1978
AP-RAMACHANDRAPURAM
IND 25.5%won by 0.3%JNP 25.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 0.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 44.6% to 25.5% of the vote here (−19.1%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 25.2% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 50.7% between them, down from 96.6% — 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
75,619
Margin
261
0.35%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1APPARAO PILLIIndependent · IND19,30625.5%
- 2MUDRAGADA VENKASTASWAMY NAIDUJanata Party · JNP19,04525.2%
- 3GADAM KAMLADEVIIndian National Congress · INC18,76424.8%
- 4D. SATYANARAYANA REDDIIndian National Congress · INC16,66022.0%
- 5BODAPATI PAPARAOIndependent · IND1,3921.8%
- 6KATAKAM SATYANANDAMIndependent · IND4520.6%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–JNP swing
- −44.2%
- IND share
- 44.6% → 25.5%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 25.2%
- Turnout
- — → —