Constituency
110. Puttur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1962
KA-PUTTUR
INC 48.5%won by 20.7%SWA 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.2% to 20.7%.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 27.7% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.2% of the vote between them, up from 65.1% — 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
29,429
Margin
6,096
20.71%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1K. VENKATRAMANA GOWDAIndian National Congress · INC14,25948.5%
- 2K. UGGAPPA SHETTYSwatantra Party · SWA8,16327.7%
- 3K. RAMA BHATTAJS · JS4,38314.9%
- 4SANJIVA RAICommunist Party of India · CPI2,6248.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −12.4%
- INC share
- 33.2% → 48.5%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- — → —