Constituency
89. Machilipatnam
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1983
AP-MACHILIPATNAM
TDP 56.5%won by 33.2%INC 23.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which now leads by 33.2%.
- TDP vote shareTDP went from 0.0% to 56.5% of the vote here (+56.5%).
- Safe seatTelugu Desam Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
76,258
Margin
25,341
33.23%
Candidates
6 contested · winner TDP- 1BORRA VENKATASWAMITelugu Desam Party · TDP43,09856.5%
- 2PERNI KRISHNA MURTHYIndian National Congress · INC17,75723.3%
- 3RANGA RAO VADDIJanata Party · JNP14,81119.4%
- 4UPPIRETLA VENKATESWARA RAOIndependent · IND2980.4%
- 5MAJJI JANARDHAN RAOIndependent · IND1730.2%
- 6DHULIPALA SREERAMACHANDRA MURTHYIndependent · IND1210.2%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- TDPflipped
- TDP–INC swing
- +71.1%
- TDP share
- 0.0% → 56.5%
- INC share
- 37.9% → 23.3%
- Turnout
- — → —