Constituency
115. Chamaraja
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1983
KA-CHAMARAJA
JNP 48.4%won by 24.3%BJP 24.1%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.3% to 24.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 24.1% — it did not contest here in 1978.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.4% between them, down from 94.8% — 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
49,568
Margin
12,035
24.28%
Candidates
10 contested · winner JNP- 1H. KEMPEGOWDAJanata Party · JNP23,96748.4%
- 2PUTTEGOWDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,93224.1%
- 3B. N. KENGEGOWDAIndian National Congress · INC11,60123.4%
- 4RAMEGOWDAIndependent · IND6881.4%
- 5PEER MOHAMMED SAFIULLAIndependent · IND5181.0%
- 6K. VIMALAIndependent · IND3420.7%
- 7N. ESWARAIndependent · IND1780.4%
- 8E. S. SHIVANANJEGOWDAICJ · ICJ1280.3%
- 9M. R. VISWANATHIndependent · IND1090.2%
- 10B. P. R. VITTALAIndependent · IND1050.2%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- JNP
- JNP–BJP swing
- −30.3%
- JNP share
- 54.5% → 48.4%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 24.1%
- Turnout
- — → —