Constituency
136. Mangalore Ii
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1972
KA-MANGALORE-II
INC 53.8%won by 28.0%CPM 25.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.3% to 28.0%.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
55,861
Margin
15,665
28.04%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1FAREED U. T.Indian National Congress · INC30,04853.8%
- 2A.KRISHNA SHETTYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,38325.7%
- 3K. NARAYANA SHETTYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,22711.1%
- 4LOUELLA LOBOSwatantra Party · SWA2,0313.6%
- 5M. A. KHADERNCO · NCO1,6543.0%
- 6A. RAMAMCHANDRAIndependent · IND1,5182.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +10.8%
- INC share
- 50.4% → 53.8%
- CPM share
- 33.2% → 25.7%
- Turnout
- — → —