Constituency
32. Secunderabad
Community mirrorAndhra Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-SECUNDERABAD
INC 48.2%won by 12.8%IND 35.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.4% to 12.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 35.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.5% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.4% to 50.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,80,287
Turnout
50.5%
Valid votes
1,91,970
Margin
24,570
12.80%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1AHMED MOHIUDDINIndian National Congress · INC92,45948.2%
- 2V. RAMACHANDRA RAOIndependent · IND67,88935.4%
- 3A. LAKSHMINARAYANJS · JS9,6955.1%
- 4J. VENKATESHAMPraja Socialist Party · PSP8,2874.3%
- 5I.L.N. SASTRYSwatantra Party · SWA7,3303.8%
- 6PULI RAMASWAMYIndependent · IND6,3103.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −53.9%
- INC share
- 66.7% → 48.2%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 35.4%
- Turnout
- 43.1% → 50.5%