Constituency
169. Kanakapura
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-KANAKAPURA
INCI 53.4%won by 27.2%JNP 26.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 27.2%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 53.4% of the vote here (+53.4%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 26.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.7% between them, down from 93.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,85,062
Turnout
60.2%
Valid votes
4,72,345
Margin
1,28,504
27.21%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INCI- 1M.V. CHANDRASEKHARA MURTHYINCI · INCI2,52,38353.4%
- 2M.V. RAJASEKHARANJanata Party · JNP1,23,87926.2%
- 3S. KARIYAPPAINCU · INCU67,96014.4%
- 4M.P. KRISHNAPPAJNPS · JNPS17,7673.8%
- 5C. MAHADEVASWAMYIndependent · IND4,4981.0%
- 6M. KRISHANSWAMYIndependent · IND3,6680.8%
- 7ARUN NAGARKATTIIndependent · IND8340.2%
- 8R. SIDDAIAHIndependent · IND7930.2%
- 9G.K. SIDDAIAHIndependent · IND5630.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNP swing
- +27.2%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 53.4%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 26.2%
- Turnout
- 60.5% → 60.2%