Constituency
90. Varthur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1978
KA-VARTHUR
JNP 41.1%won by 13.4%INC 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 13.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 0.0% to 41.1% of the vote here (+41.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.8% between them, down from 95.5% — 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
69,627
Margin
9,312
13.37%
Candidates
7 contested · winner JNP- 1B.V. RAMACHANDRA REDDYJanata Party · JNP28,61341.1%
- 2H.T.SOMASHEKARA REDDYIndian National Congress · INC19,30127.7%
- 3G.T. MARISWAMY REDDYIndependent · IND7,65111.0%
- 4S,SURYANARAYANA RAOCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,00910.1%
- 5A.T. RANGANATHAIndependent · IND4,0005.7%
- 6RAMASWAMYIndian National Congress · INC2,8494.1%
- 7A.N. SANJEEVA REDDYIndependent · IND2040.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–INC swing
- +73.7%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 41.1%
- INC share
- 60.4% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- — → —