Constituency
148. Birur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-BIRUR
INC 53.4%won by 6.8%NCO 46.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.1% to 53.4% of the vote here (+13.3%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 46.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 87.5% — 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
38,062
Margin
2,604
6.84%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1M. MALLAPPAIndian National Congress · INC20,33353.4%
- 2N. K. MUCHAPPANCO · NCO17,72946.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −33.3%
- INC share
- 40.1% → 53.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 46.6%
- Turnout
- — → —