Constituency
120. Chamarajanagar
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1985
KA-CHAMARAJANAGAR
INC 40.7%won by 9.4%JNP 31.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.1% to 9.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Janata Party (JNP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.0% between them, down from 86.9% — 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
81,867
Margin
7,710
9.42%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1S. PUTTASWAMYIndian National Congress · INC33,33540.7%
- 2M. C. PARASHIVAPPAJanata Party · JNP25,62531.3%
- 3VATAL NAGARAJIndependent · IND21,75826.6%
- 4Y. S. LINGAIAHIndependent · IND1,1491.4%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −28.1%
- INC share
- 47.5% → 40.7%
- JNP share
- 10.0% → 31.3%
- Turnout
- — → —