Constituency
63. Sidlaghatta
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-SIDLAGHATTA
INC 60.8%won by 28.0%IND 32.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.6% to 28.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.6% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
51,481
Margin
14,434
28.04%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1J. VENKATAPPAIndian National Congress · INC31,30860.8%
- 2B. VENKATARAYAPPAIndependent · IND16,87432.8%
- 3G. PAPANNACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,2996.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +19.4%
- INC share
- 54.3% → 60.8%
- IND share
- 45.7% → 32.8%
- Turnout
- — → —