Constituency
70. Eluru
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1978
AP-ELURU
INC 45.3%won by 13.9%JNP 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 32.9% to 45.3% of the vote here (+12.4%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 31.4% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.7% of the vote between them, up from 69.0% — 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
76,882
Margin
10,712
13.93%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SURYA PRAKASA RAO NALABATIIndian National Congress · INC34,82545.3%
- 2AMANAGANTI SREERAMULUJanata Party · JNP24,11331.4%
- 3APPALASWAMY PUDICommunist Party of India · CPI11,87415.4%
- 4NERELLA RAJAIndependent · IND5,2426.8%
- 5VENKATA SATYANARAYANA PULIIndependent · IND4760.6%
- 6BANDA SURYANARAYANAIndependent · IND3520.5%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNP swing
- −19.0%
- INC share
- 32.9% → 45.3%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —