Constituency
8. Kamalapur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-KAMALAPUR
INC 70.3%won by 40.6%SOP 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.2% to 40.6%.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 29.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 78.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
31,571
Margin
12,821
40.61%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1SUBHASH SHANKERSHETTYIndian National Congress · INC22,19670.3%
- 2HANMANTH RAO SHARNAPPASOP · SOP9,37529.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −5.7%
- INC share
- 46.3% → 70.3%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —