Constituency
34. Visakhapatnam
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-VISAKHAPATNAM
IND 64.7%won by 44.7%INC 20.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 44.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.8% of the vote between them, up from 78.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 11.1% to 36.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,71,425
Turnout
36.8%
Valid votes
1,36,779
Margin
61,114
44.68%
Candidates
3 contested · winner IND- 1PUSAPATI VIJAYARAMA GAJAPATHI RAJUIndependent · IND88,56364.7%
- 2MALLAVARAPU VENKATA KRISHNA RAOIndian National Congress · INC27,44920.1%
- 3LANKA SUNDARAMIndependent · IND20,76715.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- +39.8%
- IND share
- 41.5% → 64.7%
- INC share
- 36.6% → 20.1%
- Turnout
- 48.0% → 36.8%