Constituency
41. Chitradurga
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-CHITRADURGA
INC 58.1%won by 33.7%NCO 24.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.6% to 33.7%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 24.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.5% between them, down from 97.5% — 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
39,682
Margin
13,392
33.75%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1C. R. MOHAMMAD SAIFUDDINIndian National Congress · INC23,05758.1%
- 2T. M. K. PEER SABNCO · NCO9,66524.4%
- 3H. K. VASUDEVA REDDYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,96017.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −23.3%
- INC share
- 57.0% → 58.1%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- — → —