Constituency
122. Somwarpet
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-SOMWARPET
INC 56.2%won by 23.9%NCO 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 23.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 45.5% to 56.2% of the vote here (+10.7%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 32.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.6% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
41,692
Margin
9,959
23.89%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1R. GUNDU RAOIndian National Congress · INC23,44856.2%
- 2C. K. KALAPPANCO · NCO13,48932.4%
- 3B. N. VENKATARAMANACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,2257.7%
- 4D. S. MANJUNATHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,5303.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −21.6%
- INC share
- 45.5% → 56.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —