Constituency
163. Bellary
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-BELLARY
INCI 64.2%won by 37.2%INCU 27.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 37.2%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 64.2% of the vote here (+64.2%).
- New challengerINCU (INCU) finished second with 27.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.2% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 10.5% to 52.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,01,437
Turnout
52.1%
Valid votes
3,65,578
Margin
1,36,037
37.21%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCI- 1R.Y. GHORPADEINCI · INCI2,34,79264.2%
- 2M.Y. GHORPADEINCU · INCU98,75527.0%
- 3N. RACHAIAHJanata Party · JNP26,6417.3%
- 4D. MUHAMMED GHOUSEIndependent · IND3,8381.0%
- 5A,M. GANGAPPA SWAMYIndependent · IND1,5520.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–INCU swing
- +37.2%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 64.2%
- INCU share
- 0.0% → 27.0%
- Turnout
- 62.6% → 52.1%