Constituency
10. Gulbarga
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1978
KA-GULBARGA
IND 32.8%won by 1.4%JNP 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 1.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 5.0% to 32.8% of the vote here (+27.8%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 31.4% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.2% between them, down from 72.7% — 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
54,899
Margin
763
1.39%
Candidates
10 contested · winner IND- 1QAMARUL ISLAMIndependent · IND18,00532.8%
- 2SADAT HUSSAIN USTADJanata Party · JNP17,24231.4%
- 3IQBAL AHMED SARADGIIndian National Congress · INC12,47622.7%
- 4GANGADHAR NAMOSHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,5276.4%
- 5MOHAMMAD ALI MEHTAL ALIIndian National Congress · INC2,0023.6%
- 6SHARANGOUDA INAMDARIndependent · IND6271.1%
- 7PASWARAJ S.KATTIMANIRPK · RPK6251.1%
- 8HASMUKHLAL SETHIndependent · IND2030.4%
- 9VEERANNA KADGANCHIIndependent · IND1100.2%
- 10MOHAMMAD NAYEEM REHMANIIndependent · IND820.1%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–JNP swing
- −3.7%
- IND share
- 5.0% → 32.8%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —