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Constituency

54. Turuvekere

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Karnataka Assembly Election, 1972

KA-TURUVEKERE

INC 64.2%won by 30.7%NCO 33.5%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.5% to 30.7%.

  • New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 33.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.6% of the vote between them, up from 90.2% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
48,288
Margin
14,833
30.72%

Candidates

3 contested · winner INC
  1. 1B. BHYRAPPAJIIndian National Congress · INC30,99064.2%
  2. 2T. SIVANNANCO · NCO16,15733.5%
  3. 3B. SEETHARAMAIAHSwatantra Party · SWA1,1412.4%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INCNCO swing
−15.6%
INC share
46.3% 64.2%
NCO share
0.0% 33.5%
Turnout