Constituency
89. Machilipatnam
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1978
AP-MACHILIPATNAM
JNP 40.4%won by 2.5%INC 37.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 2.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 0.0% to 40.4% of the vote here (+40.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.3% between them, down from 95.1% — 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
75,178
Margin
1,902
2.53%
Candidates
6 contested · winner JNP- 1VADDI RANGA RAOJanata Party · JNP30,40040.4%
- 2CHILLAMKURTI VEERASWAMY ALIAS AMBULUIndian National Congress · INC28,49837.9%
- 3PEDASINGU LAKSHMANA RAOIndian National Congress · INC13,74818.3%
- 4KUPPA VENKATERAMA SASTRYIndependent · IND1,7142.3%
- 5CHIRIVELLA RAGHAVA RAORPK · RPK7331.0%
- 6VIDYUDVALLI SASTRY PURANAMIndependent · IND850.1%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–INC swing
- +57.8%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 40.4%
- INC share
- 55.2% → 37.9%
- Turnout
- — → —