Constituency
138. Puttur
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
AP-PUTTUR
TDP 59.9%won by 20.6%INC 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.3% to 20.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.1% of the vote between them, up from 93.9% — a tighter two-way 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
83,371
Margin
17,201
20.63%
Candidates
5 contested · winner TDPSince 1983
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–INC swing
- −19.6%
- TDP share
- 67.1% → 59.9%
- INC share
- 26.8% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- — → —