Constituency
18. Cheepurupalli
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
AP-CHEEPURUPALLI
TDP 71.7%won by 51.1%IND 20.6%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 33.2% to 51.1%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 20.6% — it polled just 0.6% in 1983.
- Safe seatTelugu Desam Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
63,233
Margin
32,297
51.08%
Candidates
6 contested · winner TDP- 1KEMBURI RAMA MOHAN RAOTelugu Desam Party · TDP45,34971.7%
- 2MEESALA NEELAKANTHAMIndependent · IND13,05220.6%
- 3PONNADA RAGHUVU NAIDUIndependent · IND1,9663.1%
- 4HAMASA SURYANARAYANAIndependent · IND1,2402.0%
- 5BODDEPALLI ANANDA RAOIndependent · IND9031.4%
- 6VARAHA NARASIMHA RAJU THIRUMALA RAJUIndependent · IND7231.1%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–IND swing
- −10.0%
- TDP share
- 61.7% → 71.7%
- IND share
- 0.6% → 20.6%
- Turnout
- — → —