Constituency
117. Hunsur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-HUNSUR
INC 51.5%won by 27.6%NCO 24.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 19.6% to 27.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 24.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.5% between them, down from 97.7% — 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
49,896
Margin
13,751
27.56%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1U. KARIYAPPA GOWDAIndian National Congress · INC25,71151.5%
- 2H. HOMBE GOWDANCO · NCO11,96024.0%
- 3S. SANJEEVAIAHIndependent · IND8,09316.2%
- 4M. L. NANJARAJE URSIndependent · IND2,6675.3%
- 5MAHADEVARAO KADAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9401.9%
- 6K. R. SHIVARAME GOWDAIndependent · IND5251.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −31.1%
- INC share
- 58.7% → 51.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 24.0%
- Turnout
- — → —