Constituency
261. Cheriyal
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
AP-CHERIYAL
TDP 67.3%won by 46.1%IND 21.1%
What changed here
DerivedTelugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.1% to 46.1%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 21.1% — it polled just 1.3% in 1983.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.4% of the vote between them, up from 80.9% — 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
64,200
Margin
29,611
46.12%
Candidates
4 contested · winner TDP- 1NIMMA RAJA REDDYTelugu Desam Party · TDP43,17567.3%
- 2N. RAJALINGAMIndependent · IND13,56421.1%
- 3VENKAT RAM REDDYIndian National Congress · INC6,72110.5%
- 4PANLA KOMRELLIIndependent · IND7401.2%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- TDP
- Winner now
- TDP
- TDP–IND swing
- +0.4%
- TDP share
- 47.0% → 67.3%
- IND share
- 1.3% → 21.1%
- Turnout
- — → —