Constituency
26. Kushtagi
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-KUSHTAGI
INC 55.9%won by 16.8%NCO 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.0% to 16.8%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 39.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 95.0% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
41,416
Margin
6,943
16.76%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1KANTHA RAO BHIM RAO DESAIIndian National Congress · INC23,14455.9%
- 2B. SHARANABASVARAJNCO · NCO16,20139.1%
- 3P. CHANDALINGAPPASwatantra Party · SWA2,0715.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −35.2%
- INC share
- 52.0% → 55.9%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- — → —