Constituency
14. Khammam
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-KHAMMAM
PDF 44.3%won by 2.3%INC 42.0%
What changed here
DerivedPeople'S Democratic Front held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 38.6% to 2.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.2% of the vote between them, up from 69.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.9% to 64.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,76,471
Turnout
64.0%
Valid votes
2,40,837
Margin
5,537
2.30%
Candidates
4 contested · winner PDF- 1VITTAL RAOPeople'S Democratic Front · PDF1,06,62744.3%
- 2KOLIPAK KISHAN RAOIndian National Congress · INC1,01,09042.0%
- 3P. VEERIAHIndependent · IND23,8429.9%
- 4KONDAPALLI SRINIVASA RAOIndependent · IND9,2783.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- Winner now
- PDF–INC swing
- −36.3%
- PDF share
- 53.8% → 44.3%
- INC share
- 15.2% → 42.0%
- Turnout
- 53.1% → 64.0%