Constituency
49. Sira
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-SIRA
INC 54.2%won by 14.0%IND 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.9% to 14.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.4% of the vote between them, up from 64.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
41,827
Margin
5,873
14.04%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1B. PUTTAKAMAIAHIndian National Congress · INC22,66954.2%
- 2P. MUDLE GOWDAIndependent · IND16,79640.2%
- 3A. LINGANNAIndependent · IND2,3625.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −10.8%
- INC share
- 44.7% → 54.2%
- IND share
- 19.8% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- — → —