Constituency
61. Achanta
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
AP-ACHANTA
CPM 67.5%won by 42.0%INC 25.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 42.0%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 10.7% to 67.5% of the vote here (+56.8%).
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) 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
75,605
Margin
31,722
41.96%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1CHITTARANJAN ALUGUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM51,01667.5%
- 2AMBUJA KAMIDIIndian National Congress · INC19,29425.5%
- 3BABU BHUJANGARAO MOCHERLAIndependent · IND4,5236.0%
- 4BHASKARA RAO KOTAIndependent · IND3960.5%
- 5NARASIMHAMURTHYIndependent · IND2900.4%
- 6VENKANNA POLAMURIIndependent · IND860.1%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +55.6%
- CPM share
- 10.7% → 67.5%
- INC share
- 24.3% → 25.5%
- Turnout
- — → —