Constituency
157. Kolar Gold Fields
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1962
KA-KOLAR-GOLD-FIELDS
CPI 26.7%won by 0.5%REP 26.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 0.6% to 0.5%.
- New challengerREP (REP) finished second with 26.2% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 128 votes (0.50%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered4 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
25,785
Margin
128
0.50%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1S. RAJAGOPALCommunist Party of India · CPI6,88626.7%
- 2C. M. ARMUGAMREP · REP6,75826.2%
- 3P. DORAI RAJIndian National Congress · INC5,72522.2%
- 4S. R. SHANMUGAMIndependent · IND5,09519.8%
- 5K. S. GOPAA KRISHNANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,1004.3%
- 6M. C. PERUMALIndependent · IND2210.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–REP swing
- −26.9%
- CPI share
- 27.4% → 26.7%
- REP share
- 0.0% → 26.2%
- Turnout
- — → —