Election
Constituency

291. Alair

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Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985

AP-ALAIR

TDP 68.5%won by 50.5%INC 18.0%

What changed here

Derived

Telugu Desam Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.3% to 50.5%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.6% of the vote between them, up from 67.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
71,604
Margin
36,146
50.48%

Candidates

7 contested · winner TDP
  1. 1MOTHUKUPALLI NARSIMHULUTelugu Desam Party · TDP49,06868.5%
  2. 2CHETTUPALLI KENNEDYIndian National Congress · INC12,92218.0%
  3. 3SALLURU POSHAIAHIndependent · IND6,7889.5%
  4. 4NEREDU SWAMYIndependent · IND1,2931.8%
  5. 5BHUWANAGIRI BICHAPATHIIndependent · IND5830.8%
  6. 6KONAPURAM CHANDRAIAHIndependent · IND5390.8%
  7. 7DOMAKONDA SESHUBABUIndependent · IND4110.6%

Since 1983

Derived
Winner then
TDP
Winner now
TDP
TDP–INC swing
+39.1%
TDP share
39.3% → 68.5%
INC share
27.9% → 18.0%
Turnout
— → —
290. Ramannapet292. Bhongir
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