Constituency
145. Tumkur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1962
KA-TUMKUR
INC 48.6%won by 13.6%IND 35.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.4% to 48.6% of the vote here (+4.3%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 35.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.6% between them, down from 94.3% — the field split more ways.
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
31,209
Margin
4,259
13.65%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1G. C. BHAGEERATHAMMAIndian National Congress · INC15,17848.6%
- 2T. S. MALLIKARJUNAIAHIndependent · IND10,91935.0%
- 3G. N. PUTTANNAPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,7698.9%
- 4S. MALLIKARUNAIAHJS · JS1,4884.8%
- 5R. S. SIDDARAMAIAHIndependent · IND8552.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −30.7%
- INC share
- 44.4% → 48.6%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 35.0%
- Turnout
- — → —