Constituency
61. Achanta
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1989
AP-ACHANTA
CPM 53.1%won by 9.6%INC 43.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 42.0% to 9.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
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
87,875
Margin
8,399
9.56%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1DIGUPATI RAJA GOPALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM46,64153.1%
- 2BHASKARA RAO KOTAIndian National Congress · INC38,24243.5%
- 3DHANA RAJU KOTAIndependent · IND1,4741.7%
- 4B. PURUSHOTTAMIndependent · IND9131.0%
- 5VIPPARTHI SUNARNA RAJUJanata Party · JNP4420.5%
- 6KRIPALANI GARIKIPATIIndependent · IND1630.2%
Since 1985
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −32.4%
- CPM share
- 67.5% → 53.1%
- INC share
- 25.5% → 43.5%
- Turnout
- — → —