Constituency
121. Kapu
Community mirrorKarnataka · Karnataka Assembly Election, 2018
KA-KAPU
BJP 52.5%won by 8.3%INC 44.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.3%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 44.7% to 52.5% of the vote here (+7.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.8% of the vote between them, up from 91.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.1% to 80.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,79,828
Turnout
80.3%
Valid votes
1,44,448
Margin
11,917
8.25%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1LALAJI .R. MENDONBharatiya Janata Party · BJP75,89352.5%
- 2VINAY KUMAR SORAKEIndian National Congress · INC63,97644.3%
- 3ANUPAMA SHENOYBJSC · BJSC1,6341.1%
- 4M.MANSOOR IBRAHIMJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,3931.0%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA8390.6%
- 6ABDUL RAHIMANAIMEP · AIMEP7130.5%
Since 2013
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +9.9%
- BJP share
- 44.7% → 52.5%
- INC share
- 46.4% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- 73.3% → 80.3%