Constituency
206. Puttur
Community mirrorKarnataka · Karnataka Assembly Election, 2023
KA-PUTTUR
INC 38.6%won by 2.4%IND 36.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 42.5% to 38.6% of the vote here (−3.9%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 36.2% — it polled just 0.3% in 2018.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.7% between them, down from 96.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.0% to 80.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,15,899
Turnout
80.0%
Valid votes
1,72,762
Margin
4,149
2.40%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1ASHOK KUMAR RAIIndian National Congress · INC66,60738.6%
- 2ARUN KUMAR PUTHILAIndependent · IND62,45836.2%
- 3ASHA THIMMAPPABharatiya Janata Party · BJP37,55821.7%
- 4SHAFFI BELLARESDPI · SDPI2,7881.6%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA8660.5%
- 6DIVYAPRABHA GOWDAJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS6840.4%
- 7DR. B.K. VISHUKUMAR GOWDAAam Aadmi Party · AAP6500.4%
- 8SUNDARA KOILAIndependent · IND6220.4%
- 9IVAN FERAO P.Karnataka Rashtra Samithi · KRS5290.3%
Since 2018
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −39.8%
- INC share
- 42.5% → 38.6%
- IND share
- 0.3% → 36.2%
- Turnout
- 84.0% → 80.0%