Constituency
2. Sompeta
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1983
AP-SOMPETA
INC 45.8%won by 5.9%LKD 39.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.6% to 45.8% of the vote here (+7.2%).
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 39.9% — it did not contest here in 1978.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.7% between them, down from 96.3% — 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
68,399
Margin
4,043
5.91%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1MAJJI NARAYANA RAOIndian National Congress · INC31,31445.8%
- 2GOUTHU LATCHANNALKD · LKD27,27139.9%
- 3BENDALAM SATYAVATIIndependent · IND9,81414.3%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–LKD swing
- −32.7%
- INC share
- 38.6% → 45.8%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 39.9%
- Turnout
- — → —