Constituency
170. Kumta
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1989
KA-KUMTA
INC 43.9%won by 13.2%JD 30.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.0% to 43.9% of the vote here (+8.8%).
- New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 30.7% — it did not contest here in 1985.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.6% between them, down from 82.8% — 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
78,789
Margin
10,374
13.17%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1GOUDA KRISHNA HANUMAIndian National Congress · INC34,55643.9%
- 2KAMALAKAR GOKARANJanata Dal · JD24,18230.7%
- 3KARKI M. P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,71016.1%
- 4GOUDA N. H.Janata Party · JNP4,6155.9%
- 5PAI N. V.Independent · IND1,2681.6%
- 6YAKUB SAHEB A. SHAIKHIndependent · IND1,1071.4%
- 7PATGAR MARIYANNA TIMMAIndependent · IND3510.4%
Since 1985
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JD swing
- −21.9%
- INC share
- 35.0% → 43.9%
- JD share
- 0.0% → 30.7%
- Turnout
- — → —