Constituency
213. Bijapur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-BIJAPUR
INC 58.5%won by 23.3%NCO 35.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 48.4% to 23.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 35.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.8% of the vote between them, up from 87.3% — 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
39,639
Margin
9,235
23.30%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1K. T. RATHODIndian National Congress · INC23,20558.5%
- 2PANTDIT VISHNU KESHAVANCO · NCO13,97035.2%
- 3B. KARIBASAPPA NAGURIndependent · IND1,4693.7%
- 4B. CHANNAPPA SAYABANNABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5931.5%
- 5I. F. MAHIBUBPASHYAIndependent · IND2360.6%
- 6KUNTODI KJUDLEPPA SANGAPPASOP · SOP1660.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −44.5%
- INC share
- 67.8% → 58.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 35.2%
- Turnout
- — → —