Constituency
5. Visakhapatnam
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-VISAKHAPATNAM
IND 57.6%won by 21.0%IND 36.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.5% to 21.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.3% of the vote between them, up from 73.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.0% to 57.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,60,021
Turnout
57.2%
Valid votes
3,20,085
Margin
67,188
20.99%
Candidates
3 contested · winner IND- 1P. V. G. RAJUIndependent · IND1,84,46457.6%
- 2TENNETI VISWANATHAMIndependent · IND1,17,27636.6%
- 3S. N. PATRUDUIndependent · IND18,3455.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–IND swing
- 0.0%
- IND share
- 42.0% → 57.6%
- IND share
- 42.0% → 57.6%
- Turnout
- 62.1% → 57.2%