Constituency
134. Bantval
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-BANTVAL
CPI 62.5%won by 38.0%BJS 24.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 38.0%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 62.5% of the vote here (+62.5%).
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 24.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.0% of the vote between them, up from 72.7% — 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
48,042
Margin
18,269
38.03%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1B. V. KAKKILAYACommunist Party of India · CPI30,03162.5%
- 2A. RUKMAYA POOJARIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS11,76224.5%
- 3SHEIK IBRAHIM SAHEBIndependent · IND3,8438.0%
- 4S. I. J. MORASIndependent · IND1,9724.1%
- 5ISHWARA BHAT PARPAKAJESOP · SOP4340.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–BJS swing
- +38.0%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 62.5%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 24.5%
- Turnout
- — → —