Constituency
160. Malleshwaram
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1962
KA-MALLESHWARAM
IND 22.4%won by 0.7%INC 21.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.8% to 0.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 44.1% between them, down from 78.8% — 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
36,137
Margin
265
0.73%
Candidates
9 contested · winner IND- 1K. DEVAYAIndependent · IND8,09722.4%
- 2K. SRIRAMULUIndian National Congress · INC7,83221.7%
- 3B. VENKATASUBBA RAOSwatantra Party · SWA5,43815.0%
- 4T. PARTHASARATHYIndependent · IND5,25014.5%
- 5A. NAGESHA RAOCommunist Party of India · CPI4,52412.5%
- 6ANNIAPPANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,6487.3%
- 7S. B. SWETHADRIJS · JS9852.7%
- 8JAYARAMREP · REP7922.2%
- 9B. DASARATHA RAOIndependent · IND5711.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- −6.1%
- IND share
- 42.8% → 22.4%
- INC share
- 36.0% → 21.7%
- Turnout
- — → —