Constituency
242. Adilabad
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1983
AP-ADILABAD
IND 42.0%won by 0.8%INC 41.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.2% to 0.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.2% of the vote between them, up from 75.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 509 votes (0.80%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
63,962
Margin
509
0.80%
Candidates
8 contested · winner IND- 1CHILKURI VAMAN REDDYIndependent · IND26,87142.0%
- 2CHILKURI RAMACHANDER REDDYIndian National Congress · INC26,36241.2%
- 3AKHTER HUSSAINIndependent · IND3,8596.0%
- 4P. VASU DEVIndependent · IND2,0183.2%
- 5NASANI LACHANNAIndependent · IND1,9433.0%
- 6RASHEED AHMEDJanata Party · JNP1,4322.2%
- 7POTHA REDDYIndependent · IND9321.5%
- 8J. LINGAIAHIndependent · IND5450.9%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- −12.4%
- IND share
- 44.4% → 42.0%
- INC share
- 31.2% → 41.2%
- Turnout
- — → —