Constituency
242. Adilabad
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1978
AP-ADILABAD
IND 44.4%won by 13.2%INC 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 13.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 22.2% to 44.4% of the vote here (+22.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.6% between them, down from 85.7% — 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
65,143
Margin
8,592
13.19%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1CHILKURI RAMACHANDRA REDDYIndependent · IND28,90544.4%
- 2CHILKURI VAMAN REDDYIndian National Congress · INC20,31331.2%
- 3PENDOR BAPU RRAOIndependent · IND5,1377.9%
- 4MASOOD AHMSD KHURSHEEDIndian National Congress · INC4,8947.5%
- 5SYED MUDAKKIR SHAHJanata Party · JNP4,8467.4%
- 6VUGGE NAMDEVIndependent · IND1,0481.6%
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–INC swing
- +54.5%
- IND share
- 22.2% → 44.4%
- INC share
- 63.5% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- — → —