Constituency
159. Pulakeshinagar
Community mirrorKarnataka · Karnataka Assembly Election, 2013
KA-PULAKESHINAGAR
JDS 48.8%won by 10.1%INC 38.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Dal (Secular) (JDS), which now leads by 10.1%.
- JDS vote shareJDS went from 27.9% to 48.8% of the vote here (+20.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.4% of the vote between them, up from 78.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,78,272
Turnout
56.4%
Valid votes
1,00,501
Margin
10,199
10.15%
Candidates
13 contested · winner JDS- 1AKHANDA SRINIVAS MURTHY.RJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS48,99548.8%
- 2B.PRASANNA KUMARIndian National Congress · INC38,79638.6%
- 3A.HEMALATHASDPI · SDPI5,4315.4%
- 4PALANI VELU KBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,5894.6%
- 5M.MURTHYIndependent · IND6840.7%
- 6SUSHEELA DEVARAJKerala Janatha Party · KJP5110.5%
- 7ELUMALAIIndependent · IND3330.3%
- 8BHAGYA.MRPIA · RPIA3080.3%
- 9P.M.KRISHNAIndependent · IND2420.2%
- 10M.RAJAANC · ANC1670.2%
- 11SUNSTAR.D.JAIRAMIndependent · IND1570.2%
- 12SUNIL KUMAR MEGHANATHNational People's Party · NPP1520.2%
- 13C. ERUCHAPPANIndependent · IND1360.1%
Since 2008
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JDSflipped
- JDS–INC swing
- +32.7%
- JDS share
- 27.9% → 48.8%
- INC share
- 50.4% → 38.6%
- Turnout
- — → 56.4%