Constituency
244. Asifabad
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1983
AP-ASIFABAD
CPI 33.9%won by 0.6%INC 33.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 0.6%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 27.5% to 33.9% of the vote here (+6.5%).
- Knife-edgeDecided by 303 votes (0.58%) — 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
51,922
Margin
303
0.58%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1GUNDA MALLESHCommunist Party of India · CPI17,62333.9%
- 2DASARI NARASIAHIndian National Congress · INC17,32033.4%
- 3EDISIRALA CHANDRASEKHARIndependent · IND16,97932.7%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +9.4%
- CPI share
- 27.5% → 33.9%
- INC share
- 36.3% → 33.4%
- Turnout
- — → —