Constituency
154. Shimoga
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-SHIMOGA
INC 58.8%won by 34.8%SOP 24.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.0% to 34.8%.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 24.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.9% of the vote between them, up from 77.0% — 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
52,511
Margin
18,259
34.77%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1A. B. B. NARAYANAIYENGARIndian National Congress · INC30,88958.8%
- 2Y. R.PARAMESHWARAPPASOP · SOP12,63024.1%
- 3D. H. SHANKARAMURTHYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,93013.2%
- 4S. P. MARIYAPPAIndependent · IND2,0623.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −12.8%
- INC share
- 47.5% → 58.8%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 24.1%
- Turnout
- — → —