Constituency
10. Gulbarga
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-GULBARGA
INC 48.0%won by 23.3%BJS 24.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.1% to 23.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.7% between them, down from 93.8% — 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
47,228
Margin
10,994
23.28%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1MOHAMMED ALI MEHTAB ALIIndian National Congress · INC22,65748.0%
- 2A. SHARMA JAITIRTHACHARYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS11,66324.7%
- 3GANGADHAR NAMOSHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,89218.8%
- 4B. SHAMSUNDER B. MANIKAMIndependent · IND2,3825.0%
- 5MOHD. KHURSHID KHANNCO · NCO7241.5%
- 6V. P. DEULGOANKARSOP · SOP6741.4%
- 7VIRANNA CHANAMALLAPPAIndependent · IND2360.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −24.5%
- INC share
- 54.0% → 48.0%
- BJS share
- 6.2% → 24.7%
- Turnout
- — → —