Constituency
98. Bapatla
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
AP-BAPATLA
TDP 42.9%won by 20.8%IND 22.1%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 34.3% to 20.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 22.1% — it polled just 0.8% in 1983.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.0% between them, down from 99.2% — 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
86,509
Margin
18,027
20.84%
Candidates
14 contested · winner TDP- 1UMMAREDDY VENKATESWARLUTelugu Desam Party · TDP37,12942.9%
- 2MANTHENA VENKATA SURYANARAYANA RAJUIndependent · IND19,10222.1%
- 3GOVARDHANA REDDY CHIRALAIndependent · IND13,88216.0%
- 4VENKATA SRINIVASARAO GANGARAJUIndian National Congress · INC12,30114.2%
- 5KALINTHA DILIP KUMARIndependent · IND9791.1%
- 6NANDIPATI KRISHNARAOIndependent · IND5440.6%
- 7SIVASANKARARAO THOKAIndependent · IND5210.6%
- 8LUMUMBA DHARMARAJ DASARIIndependent · IND5070.6%
- 9P. V. S. R. ANJANEYULUIndependent · IND4960.6%
- 10VALI GURAVA REDDYIndependent · IND4440.5%
- 11KASU RADHAKRISHNA REDDYIndependent · IND3360.4%
- 12LAKKAKULA SIDDAYYAIndependent · IND1910.2%
- 13NEELAM SATYANARAYANAMIndependent · IND510.1%
- 14ANISETTY BASAVAYYAIndependent · IND260.0%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–IND swing
- −45.0%
- TDP share
- 66.7% → 42.9%
- IND share
- 0.8% → 22.1%
- Turnout
- — → —