Constituency
68. Kolar Gold Fields
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1967
KA-KOLAR-GOLD-FIELDS
INC 56.7%won by 13.5%RPI 43.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 22.2% to 56.7% of the vote here (+34.5%).
- New challengerRPI (RPI) finished second with 43.3% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 52.9% — 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
35,285
Margin
4,763
13.50%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1S. R. GOPALIndian National Congress · INC20,02456.7%
- 2C. M. ARMUGAMRPI · RPI15,26143.3%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–RPI swing
- −8.7%
- INC share
- 22.2% → 56.7%
- RPI share
- 0.0% → 43.3%
- Turnout
- — → —