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89. Machilipatnam

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Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1983

AP-MACHILIPATNAM

IND 56.5%won by 33.2%INC 23.3%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 33.2%.

  • IND vote shareIND went from 2.3% to 56.5% of the vote here (+54.2%).
  • Safe seatIndependent won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
76,258
Margin
25,341
33.23%

Candidates

6 contested · winner IND
  1. 1BORRA VENKATASWAMIIndependent · IND43,09856.5%
  2. 2PERNI KRISHNA MURTHYIndian National Congress · INC17,75723.3%
  3. 3RANGA RAO VADDIJanata Party · JNP14,81119.4%
  4. 4UPPIRETLA VENKATESWARA RAOIndependent · IND2980.4%
  5. 5MAJJI JANARDHAN RAOIndependent · IND1730.2%
  6. 6DHULIPALA SREERAMACHANDRA MURTHYIndependent · IND1210.2%

Since 1978

Derived
Winner then
JNP
Winner now
INDflipped
IND–INC swing
+68.9%
IND share
2.3% → 56.5%
INC share
37.9% → 23.3%
Turnout
— → —
88. Malleshwaram90. Nidumolu
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