Constituency
209. Virajpet
Community mirrorKarnataka · Karnataka Assembly Election, 2023
KA-VIRAJPET
INC 49.9%won by 2.6%BJP 47.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.9% to 49.9% of the vote here (+9.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.3% of the vote between them, up from 90.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,26,513
Turnout
74.1%
Valid votes
1,67,778
Margin
4,291
2.56%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1A.S.PONNANNAIndian National Congress · INC83,79149.9%
- 2K.G.BOPAIAHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP79,50047.4%
- 3NOTANOTA · NOTA1,6361.0%
- 4MANZOOR ALI M.AJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,1210.7%
- 5MANU SOMAIAHSwayam Krushi Party · SKP6820.4%
- 6ABDUL NASIR MAKKIIndependent · IND3460.2%
- 7CHIMMANAMADA RAVINDRAAam Aadmi Party · AAP2540.2%
- 8PONNETI K.DARSHANIndependent · IND2040.1%
- 9SAJU. V.A. (BAVE)Karnataka Rashtra Samithi · KRS1230.1%
- 10S.Y.M. MASOOD FOUJDARNationalist Congress Party · NCP1210.1%
Since 2018
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +11.0%
- INC share
- 40.9% → 49.9%
- BJP share
- 49.4% → 47.4%
- Turnout
- 74.0% → 74.1%