Constituency
160. Sirsi
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-SIRSI
INC 66.2%won by 32.4%BJS 33.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 32.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 36.5% to 66.2% of the vote here (+29.7%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 75.6% — 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
36,817
Margin
11,929
32.40%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +20.3%
- INC share
- 36.5% → 66.2%
- BJS share
- 24.4% → 33.8%
- Turnout
- — → —