Constituency
163. Ankola
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-ANKOLA
INC 41.8%won by 16.4%NCO 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 16.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 27.2% to 41.8% of the vote here (+14.6%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 25.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.2% between them, down from 73.6% — 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
34,067
Margin
5,574
16.36%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1R. K. MAHABALESHWARIndian National Congress · INC14,24141.8%
- 2V. K. RAMAKANT NARVEKARNCO · NCO8,66725.4%
- 3S. V. JATHARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,84317.2%
- 4SHANKAR KENISOP · SOP3,2269.5%
- 5R. G. NAIKIndependent · IND2,0906.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −10.8%
- INC share
- 27.2% → 41.8%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- — → —