Constituency
77. Fort
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-FORT
IND 33.1%won by 5.9%INC 27.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.6% to 5.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.4% between them, down from 74.5% — 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
41,120
Margin
2,416
5.88%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1T. R. SHAMANNAIndependent · IND13,62533.1%
- 2D. S. NARASINGA RAOIndian National Congress · INC11,20927.3%
- 3T. K. THIMMARAYI GOWDAIndependent · IND9,26222.5%
- 4K. G. SUBBARAMA SETTYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,74616.4%
- 5G. SHIVASHANKARIndependent · IND2110.5%
- 6B. C. KESHAVA GOWDAIndependent · IND670.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- −25.7%
- IND share
- 53.0% → 33.1%
- INC share
- 21.4% → 27.3%
- Turnout
- — → —