Constituency
143. Karkal
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-KARKAL
INC 67.7%won by 53.8%NCO 14.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 53.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 41.3% to 67.7% of the vote here (+26.5%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 14.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.7% between them, down from 98.3% — 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
37,441
Margin
20,136
53.78%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1M. VEERAPPA MOILYIndian National Congress · INC25,36067.7%
- 2SUNDER HEGDENCO · NCO5,22414.0%
- 3BOLA RAGHURAMA SHETTYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,30311.5%
- 4PERODY VITTAL SHETTYIndependent · IND2,2145.9%
- 5Y. THANYAPPAIndependent · IND3400.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- +12.5%
- INC share
- 41.3% → 67.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 14.0%
- Turnout
- — → —