Constituency
282. Mysore
Community mirrorMysore · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-MYSORE
INC 74.4%won by 50.7%NCO 23.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.6% to 50.7%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 23.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.2% of the vote between them, up from 74.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,03,687
Turnout
57.0%
Valid votes
2,87,227
Margin
1,45,505
50.66%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1M. D. TULSIDASIndian National Congress · INC2,13,72474.4%
- 2M. L. THIMME GOWDANCO · NCO68,21923.8%
- 3M. L. NANJA RAJ URSIndependent · IND5,2841.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- +10.6%
- INC share
- 40.1% → 74.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 23.8%
- Turnout
- 58.2% → 57.0%