Constituency
8. Kamalapur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1985
KA-KAMALAPUR
INC 36.2%won by 5.5%JNP 30.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.2% to 5.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.0% between them, down from 84.2% — 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
40,769
Margin
2,232
5.47%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1G. RAMKRISHNAIndian National Congress · INC14,77836.2%
- 2VITHAL DODDAMANIJanata Party · JNP12,54630.8%
- 3T. N. RATHODIndependent · IND11,76728.9%
- 4SUJATHA PARAMESHWAR JANEIndependent · IND8552.1%
- 5HANMANTHRAO NAGAPPA VANTEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8232.0%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −7.8%
- INC share
- 48.7% → 36.2%
- JNP share
- 35.5% → 30.8%
- Turnout
- — → —