Constituency
81. Shanthinagar
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-SHANTHINAGAR
INC 41.5%won by 11.6%IND 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.3% to 11.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.5% of the vote between them, up from 64.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
34,540
Margin
4,004
11.59%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1K. R. SREENIVASULU NAYUDUIndian National Congress · INC14,34641.5%
- 2V. SHIVASHANKARAIndependent · IND10,34229.9%
- 3P. K. RANGANATHANIndependent · IND4,89214.2%
- 4A. MAMJAPPANCO · NCO4,08311.8%
- 5D. DEVARAJANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7122.1%
- 6A. V. SUNDARAMIndependent · IND1650.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +10.3%
- INC share
- 32.9% → 41.5%
- IND share
- 31.6% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → —