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74. Gandhi Nagar

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Karnataka Assembly Election, 1972

KA-GANDHI-NAGAR

INC 34.3%won by 3.4%IND 30.8%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.2% to 3.4%.

  • Multi-cornered5 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
37,401
Margin
1,277
3.41%

Candidates

6 contested · winner INC
  1. 1K. SREERAMULUIndian National Congress · INC12,81234.3%
  2. 2S. E. VENUGOPALIndependent · IND11,53530.8%
  3. 3N. RAMUNCO · NCO4,97213.3%
  4. 4RAMACHANDRA GOWDABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,42711.8%
  5. 5B. RAMAKRISHNAIndependent · IND2,4736.6%
  6. 6A. NAGESHA RAOCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,1823.2%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–IND swing
−3.7%
INC share
34.7% → 34.3%
IND share
27.6% → 30.8%
Turnout
— → —
73. Malleshwaram75. Chickpet
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