Constituency
199. Sakleshpur
Community mirrorKarnataka · Karnataka Assembly Election, 2018
KA-SAKLESHPUR
JDS 38.7%won by 3.1%BJP 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal (Secular) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.5% to 3.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.3% of the vote between them, up from 67.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.9% to 83.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,93,313
Turnout
83.3%
Valid votes
1,61,008
Margin
4,942
3.07%
Candidates
8 contested · winner JDS- 1H K KUMARASWAMYJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS62,26238.7%
- 2SOMASHEKAR JAYARAJBharatiya Janata Party · BJP57,32035.6%
- 3SIDDAIAHIndian National Congress · INC37,00223.0%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,5971.0%
- 5K R PRADEEP KUMARAIMEP · AIMEP1,1480.7%
- 6VEERESHAIndependent · IND5760.4%
- 7M CHINNAMALLAIAHIndependent · IND5720.4%
- 8KUMARASWAMYIndependent · IND5310.3%
Since 2013
Derived- Winner then
- JDS
- Winner now
- JDS
- JDS–BJP swing
- −37.0%
- JDS share
- 45.3% → 38.7%
- BJP share
- 5.2% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- 77.4% → 83.3%