Constituency
16. Ongole
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-ONGOLE
INC 70.9%won by 44.8%SWA 26.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.5% to 44.8%.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 26.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.0% of the vote between them, up from 87.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.0% to 67.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,98,524
Turnout
67.1%
Valid votes
4,01,483
Margin
1,79,894
44.81%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1P. ANKINEEDU PRASADA RAOIndian National Congress · INC2,84,59770.9%
- 2GOGINENI BHARATI DEVISwatantra Party · SWA1,04,70326.1%
- 3SALAGALA BENJAMINIndependent · IND10,4872.6%
- 4G. N. RAJA RAOIndependent · IND1,6960.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −9.1%
- INC share
- 53.9% → 70.9%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 26.1%
- Turnout
- 73.0% → 67.1%