Constituency
36. Adilabad
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-ADILABAD
INC 52.6%won by 5.2%TPS 47.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.5% to 5.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerTPS (TPS) finished second with 47.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 91.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,14,876
Turnout
55.9%
Valid votes
2,88,014
Margin
14,950
5.19%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1P. GANGA REDDYIndian National Congress · INC1,51,48252.6%
- 2K. V. KISHAN RAOTPS · TPS1,36,53247.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–TPS swing
- −54.3%
- INC share
- 59.5% → 52.6%
- TPS share
- 0.0% → 47.4%
- Turnout
- 57.9% → 55.9%