Constituency
126. Virajpet
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1985
KA-VIRAJPET
INC 54.9%won by 16.9%JNP 38.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.6% to 16.9%.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 38.0% — it did not contest here in 1983.
- 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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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
48,661
Margin
8,220
16.89%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1SUMA VASANTHAIndian National Congress · INC26,71654.9%
- 2H. D. RAJANJanata Party · JNP18,49638.0%
- 3APPANNA RAO M. E.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,4497.1%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −37.5%
- INC share
- 54.4% → 54.9%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- — → —