Constituency
161. Gandhi Nagar
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1962
KA-GANDHI-NAGAR
INC 48.7%won by 22.2%IND 26.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.1% to 22.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.1% between them, down from 85.5% — 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
26,624
Margin
5,917
22.22%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1NAGARATHNAMMA HIREMATHIndian National Congress · INC12,95848.7%
- 2H. L. NANJAPPAIndependent · IND7,04126.4%
- 3NATESHANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,77410.4%
- 4M. C. NARASIMHANCommunist Party of India · CPI1,7056.4%
- 5M. S. MOSESSwatantra Party · SWA1,1784.4%
- 6K. SRIRANGANATHANJS · JS4971.9%
- 7V. M. NAGARAJUIndependent · IND4711.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −17.9%
- INC share
- 62.8% → 48.7%
- IND share
- 22.7% → 26.4%
- Turnout
- — → —