179. Shimoga

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 35.0%.

• INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 56.8% of the vote here (+56.8%).
• New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 21.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.6% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 8.8% to 62.2%.

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