Constituency
111. Chirala
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1983
AP-CHIRALA
IND 60.3%won by 40.5%INC 19.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 40.5%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 8.5% to 60.3% of the vote here (+51.8%).
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
83,221
Margin
33,687
40.48%
Candidates
8 contested · winner IND- 1CHIMATAQ SAMBUIndependent · IND50,20560.3%
- 2BANDLA BALA VENKETESWARLUIndian National Congress · INC16,51819.8%
- 3CHANDRAMOULI SAJJAJanata Party · JNP13,74616.5%
- 4DAVALA JOHN PRAKASHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,7532.1%
- 5BANDARU NAGESWARA RAOICJ · ICJ4780.6%
- 6V. V. M. V. PRASADA RAOIndependent · IND3090.4%
- 7GOLLAPUDI NARASIMHA RAOIndependent · IND1430.2%
- 8AVVARU MALLIKHARJUNA RAOIndependent · IND690.1%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +75.4%
- IND share
- 8.5% → 60.3%
- INC share
- 43.5% → 19.8%
- Turnout
- — → —