Constituency
73. Polavaram
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
AP-POLAVARAM
TDP 58.7%won by 23.2%INC 35.5%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.3% to 23.2%.
- 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
69,370
Margin
16,128
23.25%
Candidates
3 contested · winner TDP- 1MODIUM LAKSHMANA RAOTelugu Desam Party · TDP40,72358.7%
- 2LAKSHMINARYANA RASAPUTHRAIndian National Congress · INC24,59535.5%
- 3CHODEM VEERABHADRUDUIndependent · IND4,0525.8%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–INC swing
- +7.9%
- TDP share
- 55.1% → 58.7%
- INC share
- 39.8% → 35.5%
- Turnout
- — → —