Constituency
73. Kolar
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1985
KA-KOLAR
JNP 52.0%won by 19.7%INC 32.3%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.9% to 19.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.3% between them, down from 96.9% — 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
66,750
Margin
13,145
19.69%
Candidates
7 contested · winner JNP- 1K. R. SRINIVASAIAHJanata Party · JNP34,70152.0%
- 2ABDUL RAHIMIndian National Congress · INC21,55632.3%
- 3P. VENKATAGIRIYAPPAIndependent · IND8,96313.4%
- 4V. VENKATESHANIndependent · IND5700.9%
- 5CHANDPASHAIndependent · IND5250.8%
- 6B. H. HANUMAPPAIndependent · IND2960.4%
- 7A. BABUIndependent · IND1390.2%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- JNP
- JNP–INC swing
- −13.2%
- JNP share
- 64.9% → 52.0%
- INC share
- 32.0% → 32.3%
- Turnout
- — → —