Constituency
59. Koratagere
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-KORATAGERE
INC 51.3%won by 32.8%IND 18.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.6% to 32.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.8% between them, down from 76.3% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
40,931
Margin
13,434
32.82%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MUDDARAMAIAHIndian National Congress · INC20,99851.3%
- 2T. H. HANUMANTHARAYAPPAIndependent · IND7,56418.5%
- 3T. R. CHANNAPPASOP · SOP6,30915.4%
- 4VEERANNABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,48313.4%
- 5L. RAJUIndependent · IND5771.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +7.2%
- INC share
- 51.0% → 51.3%
- IND share
- 25.4% → 18.5%
- Turnout
- — → —