Constituency
61. Achanta
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1978
AP-ACHANTA
INC 54.4%won by 24.6%CPM 29.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.5% to 24.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.1% between them, down from 97.2% — 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
72,657
Margin
17,882
24.61%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INCSince 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–CPM swing
- +16.2%
- INC share
- 52.8% → 54.4%
- CPM share
- 44.4% → 29.8%
- Turnout
- — → —