Constituency
74. Gandhi Nagar
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1967
KA-GANDHI-NAGAR
INC 34.7%won by 7.2%IND 27.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.2% to 7.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.3% between them, down from 75.1% — the field split more ways.
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
33,524
Margin
2,400
7.16%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1N. HIREMATHIndian National Congress · INC11,63834.7%
- 2S. V. PATHIIndependent · IND9,23827.6%
- 3S. V. K. RAJANIndependent · IND3,83811.4%
- 4K. VAJRAVELUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,1619.4%
- 5K. NANJIAHIndependent · IND1,6314.9%
- 6U. M. A. GOWDAIndependent · IND1,5554.6%
- 7B. S. GURUMURTHIAHIndependent · IND8292.5%
- 8K. B. PURUSHOTHAMIndependent · IND6471.9%
- 9S. VEERANNAIndependent · IND3381.0%
- 10C. BALASUNDARAMRPI · RPI3361.0%
- 11N. L. SOMASEKHARIAHIndependent · IND1600.5%
- 12B. SIVASHANKARANIndependent · IND1530.5%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −15.1%
- INC share
- 48.7% → 34.7%
- IND share
- 26.4% → 27.6%
- Turnout
- — → —