Constituency
257. Buggaram
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1983
AP-BUGGARAM
INC 36.0%won by 3.5%IND 32.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.5% to 3.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.5% between them, down from 80.6% — 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
54,153
Margin
1,919
3.54%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1KADAKUNTLA GANGARAMIndian National Congress · INC19,51536.0%
- 2SHIKARI VISHWANATHIndependent · IND17,59632.5%
- 3CHILLIVERI PRABHAKARCommunist Party of India · CPI7,32413.5%
- 4JOGINPALLI DAMODAR RAOBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,1579.5%
- 5CHEERPURI SHETTI RAMA KISHRAIAHIndependent · IND2,3234.3%
- 6GOPI RAJAIAHIndependent · IND9691.8%
- 7KASTHURI RAM NARAYANIndependent · IND7081.3%
- 8ABDUL KHADERIndependent · IND5611.0%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −46.6%
- INC share
- 53.1% → 36.0%
- IND share
- 2.9% → 32.5%
- Turnout
- — → —