Constituency
140. Belthangady
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1985
KA-BELTHANGADY
BJP 51.1%won by 9.7%INC 41.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.3% to 9.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.5% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
65,306
Margin
6,330
9.69%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1K. VASANTHA BANGERABharatiya Janata Party · BJP33,37851.1%
- 2LOKESHWARI VINAYACHANDRAIndian National Congress · INC27,04841.4%
- 3M. S. PRABHAKARA SAMPIGETHAYAJanata Party · JNP4,1466.3%
- 4GEORGE N. C.Independent · IND3340.5%
- 5APOLIN RODRIGGUESIndependent · IND2040.3%
- 6SATHYANARAYANA BALIGAIndependent · IND1960.3%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −14.6%
- BJP share
- 62.2% → 51.1%
- INC share
- 37.8% → 41.4%
- Turnout
- — → —