Constituency
279. Palair
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1999
AP-PALAIR
INC 39.0%won by 8.5%CPM 30.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.6% between them, down from 90.7% — the field split more ways.
- 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
1,32,288
Margin
11,258
8.51%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1CHANDRA SEKHAR SAMBHANIIndian National Congress · INC51,63839.0%
- 2SANDRA VENKATA VEERAIAHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM40,38030.5%
- 3K.V. RATNAMTelugu Desam Party · TDP33,78125.5%
- 4MATANGI RAMA SWAMYCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL4,0393.1%
- 5KUKKALA SUDARSHANMCPIS · MCPIS2,1891.7%
- 6GUNDLA PRASADJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS2610.2%
Since 1994
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +16.4%
- INC share
- 41.4% → 39.0%
- CPM share
- 49.3% → 30.5%
- Turnout
- — → —