Constituency
73. Malleshwaram
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-MALLESHWARAM
CPI 53.6%won by 30.9%IND 22.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 30.9%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 53.6% of the vote here (+53.6%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.2% of the vote between them, up from 57.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
59,609
Margin
18,419
30.90%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1M. S. KRISHNANCommunist Party of India · CPI31,92553.6%
- 2P. RAMDEVIndependent · IND13,50622.7%
- 3B. M. RAMA KRISHNAPPABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,25612.2%
- 4K. B. VENKATESHIndependent · IND5,6829.5%
- 5KESARI GOPINATHIndependent · IND4610.8%
- 6H. S. SHESHIBHUSHANIndependent · IND4100.7%
- 7RAMDASIndependent · IND3690.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–IND swing
- +53.7%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 53.6%
- IND share
- 22.8% → 22.7%
- Turnout
- — → —