Constituency
67. Tadepalligudem
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
AP-TADEPALLIGUDEM
TDP 55.7%won by 23.3%IND 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 52.1% to 23.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 32.4% — it polled just 0.8% in 1983.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.1% between them, down from 97.5% — 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
89,592
Margin
20,875
23.30%
Candidates
7 contested · winner TDP- 1YERRA NARAYANA SWAMY (BENARJI)Telugu Desam Party · TDP49,90055.7%
- 2ELI VERALAKSHMIIndependent · IND29,02532.4%
- 3VEERA VENKATA MALLI KHARJUNA PRASADARAO ELIIndian National Congress · INC10,17511.4%
- 4KONDETI NAGA LACHIRAJUIndependent · IND1710.2%
- 5VARDHINEEDI NAGA VENKATA PULIARAOIndependent · IND1220.1%
- 6KASAGANA SUBBARAOIndependent · IND1160.1%
- 7VARALAKSHMI MEKAIndependent · IND830.1%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–IND swing
- −50.7%
- TDP share
- 74.8% → 55.7%
- IND share
- 0.8% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —