Constituency

274. Tumkur

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Mysore · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971

IN-TUMKUR

INC 74.5%won by 50.1%NCO 24.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 50.1%.

INC vote shareINC went from 42.8% to 74.5% of the vote here (+31.7%).
New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 24.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.9% of the vote between them, up from 85.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
TurnoutTurnout rose 6.3% to 66.5%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate

4,85,878

Turnout

66.5%

Valid votes

3,23,210

Margin

1,61,779

50.05%