Constituency
3. Athani
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 2008
KA-ATHANI
BJP 45.9%won by 17.5%INC 28.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.6% to 17.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,23,830
Margin
21,668
17.50%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1LAXMAN SANGAPPA SAVADIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP56,84745.9%
- 2KIRANA KUMAR TATYAGOUDAIndian National Congress · INC35,17928.4%
- 3BUTALI SADASHIV KEDARIJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS24,03319.4%
- 4KRISHNAJI LAXMAN RAORAHS · RAHS2,7492.2%
- 5NAVALGATTI SANJEEVBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,6272.1%
- 6SUNIL SHANKARRPIA · RPIA1,8351.5%
- 7FIROJKHAN SHAMSHUDDINSamajwadi Party · SP5600.5%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −9.1%
- BJP share
- 50.7% → 45.9%
- INC share
- 24.1% → 28.4%
- Turnout
- — → —