Constituency
162. Koppal
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-KOPPAL
INCI 68.0%won by 44.4%INCU 23.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 44.4%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 68.0% of the vote here (+68.0%).
- New challengerINCU (INCU) finished second with 23.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.7% between them, down from 97.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.7% to 49.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,31,105
Turnout
49.9%
Valid votes
3,64,552
Margin
1,61,803
44.38%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCI- 1H.G. RAMULUINCI · INCI2,48,07768.0%
- 2H,R. BASAVARAJINCU · INCU86,27423.7%
- 3S.B. BHEEMAPPA KANAKAPPAJanata Party · JNP26,4917.3%
- 4HOTTEPAKSHA RANGASWAMY ALIAS SWAMY RANGANATHANANDA PURIIndependent · IND2,6620.7%
- 5PREMRAJIndependent · IND1,0480.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–INCU swing
- +44.4%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 68.0%
- INCU share
- 0.0% → 23.7%
- Turnout
- 53.5% → 49.9%