Constituency
12. Eluru
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-ELURU
INC 63.6%won by 29.4%BLD 34.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 49.2% to 29.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerBLD (BLD) finished second with 34.3% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.9% of the vote between them, up from 83.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.3% to 68.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,69,778
Turnout
68.2%
Valid votes
4,56,511
Margin
1,34,033
29.36%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1KOMMAREDDY SURYANARAYANAIndian National Congress · INC2,90,41063.6%
- 2KRISHNA MURTHY GARAPATIBLD · BLD1,56,37734.3%
- 3TAMMINAIDU RAAJAANI ( SIVUDU NAIDU )Independent · IND8,2171.8%
- 4BANDA SURYA NARAYANAIndependent · IND1,5070.3%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BLD swing
- −36.9%
- INC share
- 66.3% → 63.6%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 34.3%
- Turnout
- 62.9% → 68.2%