Constituency
126. Virajpet
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1983
KA-VIRAJPET
INC 54.4%won by 20.6%BJP 33.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.3% to 20.6%.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 33.7% — it did not contest here in 1978.
- 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
41,528
Margin
8,572
20.64%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1G. K. SUBBAIAHIndian National Congress · INC22,58154.4%
- 2PANIYARAVARA P. CHOMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,00933.7%
- 3H. T. DEVARAJIndependent · IND4,93811.9%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −27.8%
- INC share
- 48.5% → 54.4%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 33.7%
- Turnout
- — → —