Constituency
170. Kumta
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1985
KA-KUMTA
JNP 47.8%won by 12.7%INC 35.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 12.7%.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 22.1% to 47.8% of the vote here (+25.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.8% of the vote between them, up from 71.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
64,826
Margin
8,253
12.73%
Candidates
7 contested · winner JNP- 1GOUDA NARAYAN HOLIYAPPAJanata Party · JNP30,95947.8%
- 2NAYAK HONNAPPA LAKSHMANIndian National Congress · INC22,70635.0%
- 3KARKI M. P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,3129.7%
- 4KESHAV DURGAPPA NAIKIndependent · IND3,7305.8%
- 5MANOHAR HANAMAYYA NAIKIndependent · IND4620.7%
- 6NAIK NANDISH JATTAPPAIndependent · IND4030.6%
- 7KAMATH DEVIDAS VASUDEVIndependent · IND2540.4%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–INC swing
- +24.5%
- JNP share
- 22.1% → 47.8%
- INC share
- 33.8% → 35.0%
- Turnout
- — → —