Constituency
140. Chittoor
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1978
AP-CHITTOOR
JNP 41.0%won by 12.1%INC 29.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 12.1%.
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 41.0% of the vote here (+41.0%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.0% between them, down from 92.6% — 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
72,972
Margin
8,802
12.06%
Candidates
6 contested · winner JNP- 1N.P.VENKATESWARA CHOUDARYJanata Party · JNP29,94141.0%
- 2C.V.L. NARAYANAIndian National Congress · INC21,13929.0%
- 3P.NARSIMHA REDDYIndian National Congress · INC10,38314.2%
- 4B.GOVARDHAN NATHAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK9,48113.0%
- 5P.V.DAKSHINA MOORTHYIndependent · IND1,2011.6%
- 6M.R.CHANDRAIndependent · IND8271.1%
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
- +76.4%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 41.0%
- INC share
- 64.4% → 29.0%
- Turnout
- — → —