Constituency
159. Kamalapuram
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1978
AP-KAMALAPURAM
IND 35.2%won by 2.3%JNP 32.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 2.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 47.0% to 35.2% of the vote here (−11.8%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 32.9% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.1% 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
73,266
Margin
1,720
2.35%
Candidates
7 contested · winner IND- 1PERLA SIVA REDDYIndependent · IND25,82135.2%
- 2VUTUKURU RAMI REDDYJanata Party · JNP24,10132.9%
- 3RANUVA SEETHARAMAIAHIndian National Congress · INC16,90223.1%
- 4NERREDDI SIVARAMI REDDYCommunist Party of India · CPI4,9336.7%
- 5ADAM RAMASUBBA REDDYIndependent · IND7961.1%
- 6RAMIAHAGARI VENKATRAMI REDDYIndependent · IND5270.7%
- 7DYVAM GOPAL REDDYIndependent · IND1860.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–JNP swing
- −44.7%
- IND share
- 47.0% → 35.2%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 32.9%
- Turnout
- — → —