Constituency
188. Khanapur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-KHANAPUR
IND 55.5%won by 29.8%NCO 25.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.4% to 29.8%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 25.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Safe seatIndependent won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
41,584
Margin
12,407
29.84%
Candidates
3 contested · winner IND- 1S.N. BHAGVANTRAOIndependent · IND23,08155.5%
- 2B. B. VEERABHADRAPPANCO · NCO10,67425.7%
- 3P. SULOCHANAN W/O SHRIPADIndian National Congress · INC7,82918.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–NCO swing
- −18.4%
- IND share
- 48.3% → 55.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 25.7%
- Turnout
- — → —