Constituency
166. Penukonda
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
AP-PENUKONDA
TDP 54.7%won by 9.5%INC 45.3%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 41.0% to 9.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 80.3% — 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
79,382
Margin
7,516
9.47%
Candidates
2 contested · winner TDP- 1S. RAMACHANDRA REDDYTelugu Desam Party · TDP43,44954.7%
- 2G. VEERANNAIndian National Congress · INC35,93345.3%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–INC swing
- −32.3%
- TDP share
- 60.6% → 54.7%
- INC share
- 18.9% → 45.3%
- Turnout
- — → —