Constituency
120. Chamarajanagar
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1983
KA-CHAMARAJANAGAR
INC 47.5%won by 8.1%IND 39.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 27.5% to 47.5% of the vote here (+20.0%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 39.4% — it polled just 1.0% in 1978.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.9% of the vote between them, up from 76.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
72,835
Margin
5,917
8.12%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1S. PUTTASWAMYIndian National Congress · INC34,60747.5%
- 2VATAL NAGARAJIndependent · IND28,69039.4%
- 3M. SHIVANJA SHETTYJanata Party · JNP7,26910.0%
- 4GENESH DIXITBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,2431.7%
- 5N. M. GURUSWAMYIndependent · IND5020.7%
- 6Y. M. PUTTAMALLAPAIndependent · IND4040.6%
- 7M. C. SWAMYIndependent · IND1200.2%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −18.4%
- INC share
- 27.5% → 47.5%
- IND share
- 1.0% → 39.4%
- Turnout
- — → —