Constituency
8. Arabhavi
Community mirrorKarnataka · Karnataka Assembly Election, 2018
KA-ARABHAVI
BJP 54.3%won by 26.7%JDS 27.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 51.8% to 26.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Janata Dal (Secular) (JDS).
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.6% to 77.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,28,322
Turnout
77.5%
Valid votes
1,76,936
Margin
47,328
26.75%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1BALACHANDRA LAKSHMANARAO JARAKIHOLIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP96,14454.3%
- 2BHIMAPPA GUNDAPPA GADADJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS48,81627.6%
- 3ARVIND MAHADEVRAO DALWAIIndian National Congress · INC23,25313.1%
- 4CHUNAPPA UDDAPPA PUJERIIndependent · IND2,9621.7%
- 5ASHOK P HANAJISJPA · SJPA1,7451.0%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,3980.8%
- 7BHIMAPPA SIDDAPPA NAIKIndependent · IND1,1610.7%
- 8SHANKARGOUDA NINGANNGOUDA PADESURAIMEP · AIMEP8300.5%
- 9LAXMAN BASAPPA TOLIShiv Sena · SHS6270.4%
Since 2013
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–JDS swing
- −39.6%
- BJP share
- 68.4% → 54.3%
- JDS share
- 2.1% → 27.6%
- Turnout
- 73.9% → 77.5%