Constituency
137. Sullia
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1978
KA-SULLIA
JNP 44.5%won by 6.0%INC 38.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 6.0%.
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 44.5% of the vote here (+44.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.0% between them, down from 95.2% — 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
54,217
Margin
3,274
6.04%
Candidates
5 contested · winner JNP- 1A. RAMACHANDRAJanata Party · JNP24,14844.5%
- 2P. D. BANGERAIndian National Congress · INC20,87438.5%
- 3B. RAMAKRISHNACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,48212.0%
- 4M. BHASKAR NAIKIndian National Congress · INC2,5154.6%
- 5B. HUKRAPPAIndependent · IND1980.4%
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
- +69.1%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 44.5%
- INC share
- 63.0% → 38.5%
- Turnout
- — → —