Constituency
299. Tumkur
Community mirrorMysore · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-TUMKUR
INC 47.5%won by 19.4%PSP 28.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.2% to 19.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.6% between them, down from 87.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 8.4% to 59.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,25,051
Turnout
59.3%
Valid votes
2,51,924
Margin
48,893
19.41%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1M. V. KRISHNAPPAIndian National Congress · INC1,19,61747.5%
- 2K. N. SHANKARALINGAPPAPraja Socialist Party · PSP70,72428.1%
- 3RAMAPPAIndependent · IND45,04017.9%
- 4K. V. SUBRAMANYASWAMYJS · JS16,5436.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −13.7%
- INC share
- 60.2% → 47.5%
- PSP share
- 27.0% → 28.1%
- Turnout
- 50.8% → 59.3%