Constituency
274. Bhadrachalam
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1978
AP-BHADRACHALAM
CPM 36.0%won by 4.0%INC 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 4.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 32.0% to 36.0% of the vote here (+4.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.1% between them, down from 75.4% — 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
58,288
Margin
2,346
4.02%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +15.5%
- CPM share
- 32.0% → 36.0%
- INC share
- 43.5% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → —