Constituency
78. Gandhi Nagar
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1985
KA-GANDHI-NAGAR
JNP 39.1%won by 7.5%INC 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.4% to 7.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.8% between them, down from 92.0% — 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
52,839
Margin
3,956
7.49%
Candidates
12 contested · winner JNP- 1M. S. NARAYANA RAOJanata Party · JNP20,67139.1%
- 2BIMA RAIKARIndian National Congress · INC16,71531.6%
- 3B. MUNIYAPPAIndependent · IND9,45717.9%
- 4V. T. SHANMUGAMIndependent · IND4,5058.5%
- 5S. M. SHIVASHANKARLKD · LKD5481.0%
- 6KHALEELULHA KHANIndependent · IND2800.5%
- 7L. VIJAYA KUMARIndependent · IND2250.4%
- 8SHASHIDHARIndependent · IND1350.3%
- 9D. RAVIIndependent · IND1130.2%
- 10NARAYANA REDDYIndependent · IND780.1%
- 11SHANKARA B. R.Independent · IND710.1%
- 12L. ESWARAIAHIndependent · IND410.1%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- JNP
- JNP–INC swing
- −9.9%
- JNP share
- 54.7% → 39.1%
- INC share
- 37.3% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —