Constituency
22. Kalmala
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1983
KA-KALMALA
INC 48.2%won by 8.4%JNP 39.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.1% to 8.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.1% of the vote between them, up from 81.3% — a tighter two-way 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
40,461
Margin
3,395
8.39%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SUDHENDRA RAO KASBEIndian National Congress · INC19,51948.2%
- 2KRISHNAMURTHYJanata Party · JNP16,12439.9%
- 3DEVIPUTRAIndependent · IND2,0355.0%
- 4BESAVALINGAYYAIndependent · IND1,4553.6%
- 5SAWARAPPAIndependent · IND1,3283.3%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −10.7%
- INC share
- 50.2% → 48.2%
- JNP share
- 31.1% → 39.9%
- Turnout
- — → —