Constituency
161. Kadiri
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
AP-KADIRI
TDP 49.8%won by 15.4%IND 34.4%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.7% to 15.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.3% between them, down from 94.1% — 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
71,042
Margin
10,928
15.38%
Candidates
5 contested · winner TDP- 1CHENNUR ABDUL RASOOLTelugu Desam Party · TDP35,39849.8%
- 2BACHINENI VENGAMUNI CHOWDARYIndependent · IND24,47034.4%
- 3SHAIK MOHAMMAD YUSUFIndian National Congress · INC9,15612.9%
- 4N. SREEDHARIndependent · IND1,6932.4%
- 5K. CHIDAMBARA REDDYIndependent · IND3250.5%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–IND swing
- −44.9%
- TDP share
- 62.9% → 49.8%
- IND share
- 2.6% → 34.4%
- Turnout
- — → —