Constituency
73. Polavaram
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1999
AP-POLAVARAM
TDP 44.5%won by 0.0%INC 44.5%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.3% to 0.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 24 votes (0.02%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
1,07,440
Margin
24
0.02%
Candidates
5 contested · winner TDP- 1SRINIVASA RAO VANKATelugu Desam Party · TDP47,79644.5%
- 2BADISA DURGA RAOIndian National Congress · INC47,77244.5%
- 3BODIKA RAMACHANDRA RAOIndependent · IND5,7195.3%
- 4MURALI KRISHNA MOKALAIndependent · IND3,7713.5%
- 5KUNJAM RAMA RAOIndependent · IND2,3822.2%
Since 1994
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–INC swing
- −30.3%
- TDP share
- 60.9% → 44.5%
- INC share
- 30.5% → 44.5%
- Turnout
- — → —