Constituency
98. Challakere
Community mirrorKarnataka · Karnataka Assembly Election, 2018
KA-CHALLAKERE
INC 43.1%won by 8.0%JDS 35.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.6% to 8.0%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Kerala Janatha Party (KJP) to Janata Dal (Secular) (JDS).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.2% of the vote between them, up from 65.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.5% to 81.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,06,504
Turnout
81.8%
Valid votes
1,69,000
Margin
13,539
8.01%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1T RAGHUMURTHYIndian National Congress · INC72,87443.1%
- 2RAVEESH KUMARJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS59,33535.1%
- 3K T KUMARASWAMYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP33,47119.8%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,7301.0%
- 5K P BHUTHAIAHSWI · SWI1,5900.9%
Since 2013
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JDS swing
- −14.2%
- INC share
- 40.7% → 43.1%
- JDS share
- 18.5% → 35.1%
- Turnout
- 78.3% → 81.8%