Constituency
283. Tungaturthi
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1983
AP-TUNGATURTHI
CPM 27.3%won by 2.7%INC 24.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.4% to 2.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 51.9% between them, down from 59.6% — 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
71,329
Margin
1,897
2.66%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1SWARAJYAM MALLUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM19,46527.3%
- 2VIJAYSENA REDDY RETHI REDDYIndian National Congress · INC17,56824.6%
- 3JANNAREDDY SHYAM SUNDER REDDYIndependent · IND17,32124.3%
- 4KUSALAVAREDDY BHEEM REDDYIndependent · IND11,48516.1%
- 5DUBBAKA SANJIVA REDDYIndependent · IND3,4604.9%
- 6DASARATHA RAMA RAO KONDULICJ · ICJ1,3721.9%
- 7GARLAPATI RAGHAVAREDDYIndependent · IND5630.8%
- 8HEMA LAVUDIAIndependent · IND950.1%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −10.4%
- CPM share
- 33.5% → 27.3%
- INC share
- 20.4% → 24.6%
- Turnout
- — → —