Constituency
65. Chintamani
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-CHINTAMANI
IND 53.7%won by 14.0%INC 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.7% to 14.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.5% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
56,354
Margin
7,875
13.97%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1CHOWDA REDDYIndependent · IND30,27753.7%
- 2V. SEETHAPPAIndian National Congress · INC22,40239.8%
- 3C. V. A. NARAYANA REDDYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,0993.7%
- 4M. R. SESHAGIRINCO · NCO1,5762.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- −6.7%
- IND share
- 60.3% → 53.7%
- INC share
- 39.7% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- — → —