Constituency
179. Kurnool
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
AP-KURNOOL
INC 69.6%won by 56.1%SOP 13.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.4% to 56.1%.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 13.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.0% between them, down from 90.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
44,439
Margin
24,925
56.09%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1RAHIMAN KHAN P.Indian National Congress · INC30,91069.6%
- 2T. K. R. SARMASOP · SOP5,98513.5%
- 3P. MALIJKARAJUNA SASTRYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,46610.0%
- 4M. A. ALLAMIndependent · IND1,9084.3%
- 5B. V. KRISHNA REDDYIndependent · IND7471.7%
- 6AKBAR HUSSAINIndependent · IND4231.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- +8.0%
- INC share
- 48.1% → 69.6%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 13.5%
- Turnout
- — → —