Constituency
138. Puttur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1985
KA-PUTTUR
INC 51.5%won by 28.6%BJP 22.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 28.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 43.2% to 51.5% of the vote here (+8.3%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.3% between them, down from 88.8% — 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
72,735
Margin
20,823
28.63%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1VINAYA KUMAR SORAKEIndian National Congress · INC37,42651.5%
- 2K. RAMA BHAT, URIMAJADEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,60322.8%
- 3U. P. SHIVARAMAJanata Party · JNP16,37022.5%
- 4MOHAMMAD DELUXIndependent · IND1,5722.2%
- 5K. SHEENAIndependent · IND3220.4%
- 6U. P. SHIVANANDAIndependent · IND1620.2%
- 7K. BABUIndependent · IND1350.2%
- 8ABBASIndependent · IND780.1%
- 9K. SADASHIVAIndependent · IND670.1%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +31.1%
- INC share
- 43.2% → 51.5%
- BJP share
- 45.6% → 22.8%
- Turnout
- — → —