Constituency
13. Chittapur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1962
KA-CHITTAPUR
INC 53.0%won by 24.1%SWA 28.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.9% to 24.1%.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 28.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.9% of the vote between them, up from 71.5% — 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
21,310
Margin
5,129
24.07%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INCSince 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −15.6%
- INC share
- 39.7% → 53.0%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 28.9%
- Turnout
- — → —