Constituency
116. Sorab
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 2008
KA-SORAB
BJP 43.4%won by 17.0%INC 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 17.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 31.8% to 43.4% of the vote here (+11.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.7% between them, down from 75.3% — 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
1,23,508
Margin
21,053
17.05%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1H. HALAPPABharatiya Janata Party · BJP53,55243.4%
- 2S. KUMARA BANGARAPPAIndian National Congress · INC32,49926.3%
- 3S. MADHU BANGARAPPASamajwadi Party · SP31,13525.2%
- 4A.R. SHIVALINGA SWAMYIndependent · IND2,5882.1%
- 5V.G. PARASHURAMAIndependent · IND1,0410.8%
- 6SURESH WODIYARJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS9810.8%
- 7KOTRESH M.E.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP9590.8%
- 8K.S. SATHYANARAYANAJanata Dal (United) · JDU7530.6%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +28.6%
- BJP share
- 31.8% → 43.4%
- INC share
- 43.4% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —