Constituency
18. Shahpur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1978
KA-SHAHPUR
INC 59.9%won by 26.8%JNP 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: NCO (NCO) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 46.2% to 59.9% of the vote here (+13.7%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 33.1% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.1% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
48,601
Margin
13,034
26.82%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- NCO
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNP swing
- −19.4%
- INC share
- 46.2% → 59.9%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- — → —