Constituency
54. Allavaram
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1978
AP-ALLAVARAM
INC 48.6%won by 14.0%RPK 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.8% to 14.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to RPK (RPK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.2% of the vote between them, up from 73.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
61,348
Margin
8,569
13.97%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1VENKATAPATHI DEVARAPALLIIndian National Congress · INC29,81148.6%
- 2B. V. RAMANAYYARPK · RPK21,24234.6%
- 3PARAMATA VEERA RAGHUVULUIndian National Congress · INC9,37915.3%
- 4PULUSUGANTIIndependent · IND9161.5%
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–RPK swing
- −16.1%
- INC share
- 49.0% → 48.6%
- RPK share
- 18.9% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- — → —