Constituency
138. Puttur
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1978
AP-PUTTUR
JNP 40.4%won by 13.0%INC 27.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 13.0%.
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 67.9% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
71,165
Margin
9,223
12.96%
Candidates
6 contested · winner JNP- 1K.B. SIDDAIAHJanata Party · JNP28,76640.4%
- 2P.NARAYANA REDDYIndian National Congress · INC19,54327.5%
- 3E.V.GOPAL RAJUIndian National Congress · INC13,03518.3%
- 4K.V.LAKSHMIPATHYAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK7,0289.9%
- 5PARMANANDAM ARAVAIndependent · IND2,4553.4%
- 6P.KANNAIAHIndependent · IND3380.5%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–INC swing
- +84.1%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 40.4%
- INC share
- 71.1% → 27.5%
- Turnout
- — → —