Constituency
147. Chikmagalur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-CHIKMAGALUR
INC 65.2%won by 42.1%NCO 23.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 42.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.7% to 65.2% of the vote here (+20.5%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 23.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.2% 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
32,674
Margin
13,760
42.11%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1E. E. VAZIndian National Congress · INC21,28865.2%
- 2C. R. SHIVANANDANCO · NCO7,52823.0%
- 3B. GOVINDA RAJUIndependent · IND1,8345.6%
- 4K. P. R. PRABHUBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,3924.3%
- 5B. A. KRKSHNEGOWDASwatantra Party · SWA4851.5%
- 6S. V. T. GUPTASOP · SOP1470.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −2.6%
- INC share
- 44.7% → 65.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 23.0%
- Turnout
- — → —