Constituency
80. Sirsi
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 2008
KA-SIRSI
BJP 45.4%won by 26.1%INC 19.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.7% to 26.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.7% between them, down from 73.0% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered5 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
1,17,702
Margin
30,733
26.11%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1KAGERI VISHWESHWARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP53,43845.4%
- 2NAIK RAVEENDRANATHIndian National Congress · INC22,70519.3%
- 3BHEEMANNA NAIKSamajwadi Party · SP18,64815.8%
- 4GOWDA SHANMUKHIndependent · IND12,11610.3%
- 5NARVEKAR NAGARAJJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS6,3635.4%
- 6ANAND H GOWDAIndependent · IND2,3182.0%
- 7RAMANATHA HEGDEBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,2921.1%
- 8KANADE RAMADASLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP8220.7%
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
- +13.4%
- BJP share
- 42.8% → 45.4%
- INC share
- 30.2% → 19.3%
- Turnout
- — → —