Constituency
28. Kurnool
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-KURNOOL
INC 42.7%won by 12.9%IND 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 65.1% to 12.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 36.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.4% between them, down from 92.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 37.2% to 61.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,63,818
Turnout
61.7%
Valid votes
2,86,002
Margin
36,914
12.91%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1YASODA REDDYIndian National Congress · INC1,21,99942.7%
- 2MUKKAMALA VENKATASUBBA REDDYIndependent · IND85,08529.7%
- 3D.V. SUHBA SASTRYIndependent · IND50,00517.5%
- 4SHAIK KAMAL AHMEDSwatantra Party · SWA23,7888.3%
- 5K. BASI REDDYIndependent · IND5,1251.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −52.2%
- INC share
- 79.0% → 42.7%
- IND share
- 13.9% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- 24.4% → 61.7%