Constituency
114. Chamarajanagar
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-CHAMARAJANAGAR
INC 50.4%won by 3.0%NCO 47.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.1% to 50.4% of the vote here (+6.4%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 47.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.8% of the vote between them, up from 91.5% — 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
48,021
Margin
1,454
3.03%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1S. PUTTASWAMYIndian National Congress · INC24,21850.4%
- 2M. C. BASAPPANCO · NCO22,76447.4%
- 3M SRIKANTIAHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,0392.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −41.0%
- INC share
- 44.1% → 50.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 47.4%
- Turnout
- — → —