Constituency

4. Visakhapatnam

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Andhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962

IN-VISAKHAPATNAM

INC 70.0%won by 40.0%SWA 30.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 40.0%.

INC vote shareINC went from 20.1% to 70.0% of the vote here (+49.9%).
New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 30.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 84.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
TurnoutTurnout rose 20.4% to 57.2%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate

3,97,925

Turnout

57.2%

Valid votes

2,27,704

Margin

91,142

40.03%