Constituency
71. Gopalapuram
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1989
AP-GOPALAPURAM
TDP 52.6%won by 8.2%IND 44.4%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.3% to 8.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 44.4% — it polled just 0.6% in 1985.
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
95,855
Margin
7,852
8.19%
Candidates
4 contested · winner TDP- 1VIVEKANANDA KARUPATITelugu Desam Party · TDP50,41152.6%
- 2ABHIMANYUDU DAKEIndependent · IND42,55944.4%
- 3NAMBURI JHANSI RANIIndependent · IND2,1482.2%
- 4DASARI SAROJINI DEVIIndependent · IND7370.8%
Since 1985
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–IND swing
- −56.8%
- TDP share
- 65.5% → 52.6%
- IND share
- 0.6% → 44.4%
- Turnout
- — → —