Constituency
157. Proddatur
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
AP-PRODDATUR
TDP 49.5%won by 7.5%IND 42.1%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.4% to 7.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
95,456
Margin
7,130
7.47%
Candidates
12 contested · winner TDP- 1NANDYALA VARADARAJULU REDDYTelugu Desam Party · TDP47,28349.5%
- 2M. V. RAMANA REDDYIndependent · IND40,15342.1%
- 3SHAIK SHOWKATH ALIIndian National Congress · INC7,5807.9%
- 4CHINNA OBULA REDDYIndependent · IND1050.1%
- 5BAYYAPUREDDY MALLIKARJUNA REDDYIndependent · IND920.1%
- 6KOVVUR RAJA GOPAL REDDYIndependent · IND680.1%
- 7MOPURU NARASIMHA REDDYIndependent · IND460.0%
- 8ILLURU VENKATASWAMYIndependent · IND350.0%
- 9MUTHUKURU SUBBA RAOIndependent · IND300.0%
- 10SAKAM SESHA REDDYIndependent · IND260.0%
- 11MADEM BHASKARA REDDYIndependent · IND240.0%
- 12SOMAGAINI CHINNA KONDAIAHIndependent · IND140.0%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–IND swing
- −15.0%
- TDP share
- 56.7% → 49.5%
- IND share
- 34.3% → 42.1%
- Turnout
- — → —