Constituency
135. Mangalore I
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-MANGALORE-I
INC 49.7%won by 30.6%BJS 19.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.6% to 30.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 68.9% of the vote between them, up from 59.0% — 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
44,214
Margin
13,518
30.57%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1ADDY SALDANHAIndian National Congress · INC21,99449.7%
- 2C. G. KAMATHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,47619.2%
- 3P. RAMACHANDRA RAOCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,65215.0%
- 4S. K. AMINNCO · NCO6,41814.5%
- 5JOSEPH ARANHAIndependent · IND6741.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +11.3%
- INC share
- 36.8% → 49.7%
- BJS share
- 17.6% → 19.2%
- Turnout
- — → —