Constituency
5. Visakhapatnam
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-VISAKHAPATNAM
INC 51.0%won by 12.7%BLD 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 51.0% of the vote here (+51.0%).
- New challengerBLD (BLD) finished second with 38.3% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.4% to 53.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,26,272
Turnout
53.7%
Valid votes
3,36,577
Margin
42,829
12.72%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1DRONAMRAJU SATYANARAYANAIndian National Congress · INC1,71,65751.0%
- 2TENNETI VISWANATHANBLD · BLD1,28,82838.3%
- 3M. V. BHADRAMCommunist Party of India · CPI33,56410.0%
- 4SURENDRANATH KANDALAIndependent · IND2,5280.8%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BLD swing
- +12.7%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 51.0%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- 57.2% → 53.7%