Constituency
5. Humnabad
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-HUMNABAD
CPI 33.9%won by 1.0%NCO 32.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.4% to 1.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 32.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.9% between them, down from 87.5% — 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
42,346
Margin
441
1.04%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1V. N. PATIL NEELAPPACommunist Party of India · CPI14,37633.9%
- 2MANIK RAO RAMANNANCO · NCO13,93532.9%
- 3BASWARAJ HAVGEPPA PATELIndependent · IND13,17531.1%
- 4NARSAPPA LACHAPPAIndependent · IND8602.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–NCO swing
- −44.9%
- CPI share
- 45.9% → 33.9%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 32.9%
- Turnout
- — → —