Constituency
133. Belthangady
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-BELTHANGADY
INC 58.0%won by 38.7%NCO 19.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 24.9% to 38.7%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 19.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.2% of the vote between them, up from 68.3% — 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
41,616
Margin
16,122
38.74%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1K. SUBRAMANYA GOWDAIndian National Congress · INC24,12658.0%
- 2K. CHIDANANDANCO · NCO8,00419.2%
- 3NEMIRAJA SHETTYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,71416.1%
- 4K. V. YELACHITHAYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,2205.3%
- 5ISHWARA BHATSwatantra Party · SWA5521.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −7.8%
- INC share
- 46.6% → 58.0%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 19.2%
- Turnout
- — → —