Constituency
65. Tanuku
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1983
AP-TANUKU
TDP 49.3%won by 5.1%IND 44.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which now leads by 5.1%.
- TDP vote shareTDP went from 0.0% to 49.3% of the vote here (+49.3%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 44.2% — it polled just 0.6% in 1978.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.6% of the vote between them, up from 72.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
80,062
Margin
4,098
5.12%
Candidates
8 contested · winner TDP- 1CHITTURI VENKARESWARA RAOTelugu Desam Party · TDP39,50149.3%
- 2SATYANARAYANA MURTHY GANNAMANIIndependent · IND35,40344.2%
- 3KANTIPUDI NARSIMHA RAOIndian National Congress · INC4,2025.2%
- 4DWARAKA KRISHNAIAH Y.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP6730.8%
- 5GUDURI SARVESWARA RAOIndependent · IND1280.2%
- 6GORELLA NARSIMHA RAOIndependent · IND650.1%
- 7RAMACHANDRA RAO GAMIDIIndependent · IND450.1%
- 8SEETHARAMA RAOTANUKUIndependent · IND450.1%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- TDPflipped
- TDP–IND swing
- +5.7%
- TDP share
- 0.0% → 49.3%
- IND share
- 0.6% → 44.2%
- Turnout
- — → —