Constituency
118. Nanjangud
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1983
KA-NANJANGUD
INC 38.6%won by 0.1%JNP 38.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.0% to 0.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.2% of the vote between them, up from 62.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 45 votes (0.09%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered4 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
49,515
Margin
45
0.09%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1M. MAHADEVIndian National Congress · INC19,12438.6%
- 2K. NARASEGOWDAJanata Party · JNP19,07938.5%
- 3H. LINGAPPABharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,6359.4%
- 4MALLANNAIndependent · IND3,8527.8%
- 5MADA SETTYIndependent · IND8641.7%
- 6SRINIVASEGOWDAIndependent · IND8451.7%
- 7KATOOR SIDDANAIKAIndependent · IND5021.0%
- 8N. S. RAJA IYYANAGARICJ · ICJ3420.7%
- 9RAMACHANDRAIndependent · IND2720.5%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −12.9%
- INC share
- 37.7% → 38.6%
- JNP share
- 24.7% → 38.5%
- Turnout
- — → —