Constituency
212. Asafnagar
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
AP-ASAFNAGAR
INC 51.4%won by 26.5%IND 24.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.6% to 26.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.3% between them, down from 86.4% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
23,717
Margin
6,274
26.45%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1M. M. HASHIMIndian National Congress · INC12,18651.4%
- 2AHMED HUSSAINIndependent · IND5,91224.9%
- 3V. VEERABHADRA RAOIndependent · IND3,71215.7%
- 4ISHAQ MIRZAIndependent · IND1,0944.6%
- 5D. V. S. S. MURTHIIndependent · IND5112.2%
- 6VASUDEVJS · JS3021.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +8.9%
- INC share
- 52.0% → 51.4%
- IND share
- 34.4% → 24.9%
- Turnout
- — → —