Constituency
15. Kittur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 2008
KA-KITTUR
BJP 43.5%won by 3.9%INC 39.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.8% to 3.9%.
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 3.6% — 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
1,11,725
Margin
4,365
3.91%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1MARIHAL SURESHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP48,58143.5%
- 2INAMDAR DANAPPAGOUDAIndian National Congress · INC44,21639.6%
- 3VEERANAGOUDAJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS9,2668.3%
- 4DODAGOUDAR SANAGOUDIndependent · IND4,2463.8%
- 5HOTAKAR MAHANTESHIndependent · IND2,1671.9%
- 6PRAKASH RAMA NAYAKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,3771.2%
- 7ASHOK GURUSDIIDDAPPASamajwadi Party · SP9690.9%
- 8YALLAPPA BALAPPALoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP9030.8%
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
- −9.9%
- BJP share
- 47.0% → 43.5%
- INC share
- 33.2% → 39.6%
- Turnout
- — → —