Constituency

165. Chitradurga

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Karnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980

IN-CHITRADURGA

INCI 51.4%won by 26.1%JNP 25.3%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 26.1%.

INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 51.4% of the vote here (+51.4%).
New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 25.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.7% between them, down from 99.3% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate

7,18,324

Turnout

58.2%

Valid votes

4,18,294

Margin

1,09,361

26.14%