Election
Constituency

70. Eluru

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Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985

AP-ELURU

TDP 60.6%won by 23.3%INC 37.3%

What changed here

Derived

Telugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 56.7% to 23.3%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.9% of the vote between them, up from 92.8% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
85,923
Margin
20,040
23.32%

Candidates

9 contested · winner TDP
  1. 1MARADANI RANGARAOTelugu Desam Party · TDP52,07860.6%
  2. 2NANDI BALA SATYANARAYANAIndian National Congress · INC32,03837.3%
  3. 3BOLLI SUDHAKARA RAO ALIAS SAI BABAIndependent · IND5670.7%
  4. 4AKULA VENKATA SUBBARAOIndependent · IND4910.6%
  5. 5NUNNA ANJARAOIndependent · IND2310.3%
  6. 6ADUSUMILLI SAROJINIIndependent · IND1610.2%
  7. 7DEVANANDA KUMAR THUMATIIndependent · IND1340.2%
  8. 8KANNEGOLLA SREERAMA PURUSHOTHAMA RAOIndependent · IND1220.1%
  9. 9CHINTA SIMHADRIIndependent · IND1010.1%

Since 1983

Derived
Winner then
TDP
Winner now
TDP
TDP–INC swing
−33.4%
TDP share
74.8% → 60.6%
INC share
18.1% → 37.3%
Turnout
— → —
69. Denduluru71. Gopalapuram
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