Constituency
142. Kuppam
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
AP-KUPPAM
TDP 75.8%won by 60.2%INC 15.6%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.8% to 60.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.4% between them, down from 98.3% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatTelugu Desam Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
61,385
Margin
36,964
60.22%
Candidates
8 contested · winner TDP- 1N. RANGASWAMY NAIDUTelugu Desam Party · TDP46,54875.8%
- 2DR. S. KRISHNAIndian National Congress · INC9,58415.6%
- 3GHOUSEIndependent · IND3,0885.0%
- 4C. L. MUNIKRISHNAPPAIndependent · IND8971.5%
- 5VIDYASAGARA REDDYIndependent · IND7451.2%
- 6K. V. SUBA REDDYIndependent · IND2070.3%
- 7K. R. SOUNDARA PANDIYANIndependent · IND2060.3%
- 8KAMPALLE SIVARAMIAHIndependent · IND1100.2%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–INC swing
- +38.4%
- TDP share
- 60.0% → 75.8%
- INC share
- 38.2% → 15.6%
- Turnout
- — → —