Constituency
19. Masulipatnam
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-MASULIPATNAM
INC 47.7%won by 2.9%IND 44.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.4% to 47.7% of the vote here (+17.2%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 44.7% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.4% of the vote between them, up from 79.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 17.3% to 58.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,38,973
Turnout
58.9%
Valid votes
2,58,626
Margin
7,551
2.92%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1MANDALI VENKATA KRISHNA RAOIndian National Congress · INC1,23,24247.7%
- 2YEIAMANCHILLI NAGABHUSHANAMIndependent · IND1,15,69144.7%
- 3BHAGODI MANIKYA RAOIndependent · IND13,4755.2%
- 4YARALAGADDA GURUNATHA PRASAD BAHADURIndependent · IND6,2182.4%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −27.5%
- INC share
- 30.4% → 47.7%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 44.7%
- Turnout
- 76.2% → 58.9%