Constituency
68. Kolar Gold Fields
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-KOLAR-GOLD-FIELDS
IND 43.1%won by 4.7%INC 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 4.7%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 0.0% to 43.1% of the vote here (+43.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.4% 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
37,335
Margin
1,760
4.71%
Candidates
7 contested · winner IND- 1C. M. ARUMUGAMIndependent · IND16,07743.1%
- 2A. K. SELVARAJIndian National Congress · INC14,31738.3%
- 3A. MUNISWAMYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,4539.2%
- 4G. DEVARAJIndependent · IND1,8314.9%
- 5S. R. SHANMUGAMNCO · NCO8092.2%
- 6D. ASOKANIndependent · IND5581.5%
- 7M. GANESHANIndependent · IND2900.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +61.5%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 43.1%
- INC share
- 56.7% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- — → —