Constituency
78. Kumta
Community mirrorKarnataka · Karnataka Assembly Election, 2018
KA-KUMTA
BJP 40.6%won by 22.4%INC 18.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 22.4%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 22.9% to 40.6% of the vote here (+17.8%).
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.5% to 81.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,79,087
Turnout
81.6%
Valid votes
1,46,177
Margin
32,750
22.40%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1DINAKAR KESHAV SHETTYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP59,39240.6%
- 2SHARADA MOHAN SHETTYIndian National Congress · INC26,64218.2%
- 3SURAJ NAIK SONIIndependent · IND20,47414.0%
- 4NAYAK PRADEEP DAYANANDJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS16,56111.3%
- 5YASHODHAR G. NAIKIndependent · IND11,5127.9%
- 6KRISHNA JATTI GOUDAIndependent · IND5,0893.5%
- 7None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,1921.5%
- 8MOHAN BAGLU PATGARINCP · INCP1,2740.9%
- 9NAGRAJ .N. NAIKAIMEP · AIMEP9840.7%
- 10SUMANA HEGDEIndependent · IND7580.5%
- 11PRASHANT SHANKAR NAIKIndependent · IND5310.4%
- 12GANESH AMKUSH GOUDAIndependent · IND4120.3%
- 13NAGRAJ SHRIDHAR SHETRJSMP · RJSMP3560.2%
Since 2013
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +29.1%
- BJP share
- 22.9% → 40.6%
- INC share
- 29.6% → 18.2%
- Turnout
- 74.1% → 81.6%