Constituency
14. Vijayawada
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-VIJAYAWADA
INCI 46.4%won by 19.0%JNP 27.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 19.0%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 46.4% of the vote here (+46.4%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 27.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.8% between them, down from 79.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.5% to 67.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,65,506
Turnout
67.8%
Valid votes
5,18,666
Margin
98,702
19.03%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INCI- 1VIDYA CHENNUPATIINCI · INCI2,40,62246.4%
- 2K.L.RAOJanata Party · JNP1,41,92027.4%
- 3DASARI NAGABHUSHANA RAOCommunist Party of India · CPI1,29,07424.9%
- 4ALASAPURI RAJAIAHIndependent · IND3,7040.7%
- 5VELAMARTHI SIKHAMANIIndependent · IND1,8680.4%
- 6C.PURNACHANDRA RAOIndependent · IND1,4780.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNP swing
- +19.0%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 46.4%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 27.4%
- Turnout
- 70.3% → 67.8%