Constituency
82. Basavanagudi
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1983
KA-BASAVANAGUDI
JNP 45.3%won by 15.9%BJP 29.4%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 52.0% to 15.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 29.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 29.4% — it did not contest here in 1978.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.7% between them, down from 97.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
71,865
Margin
11,459
15.95%
Candidates
12 contested · winner JNP- 1H. L. THIMME GOWDAJanata Party · JNP32,56745.3%
- 2S. B. SWETHADRIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP21,10829.4%
- 3V. ANNIAHIndian National Congress · INC13,83819.3%
- 4B. KRISHNA BHATIndependent · IND1,4802.1%
- 5SESHADRIIndependent · IND9491.3%
- 6C. MAHADEVASWAMYIndependent · IND5810.8%
- 7SYED MASOOD AHMEDIndependent · IND3530.5%
- 8M. GOVINDAPPAIndependent · IND3010.4%
- 9K. KRISHNAPPAIndependent · IND2540.4%
- 10H. RAMACHANDRAIndependent · IND2000.3%
- 11N. KAMALASAMBHAVAIndependent · IND1370.2%
- 12SATHYANARAYANAIndependent · IND970.1%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- JNP
- JNP–BJP swing
- −58.8%
- JNP share
- 74.8% → 45.3%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 29.4%
- Turnout
- — → —