Constituency
180. Kanara
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-KANARA
INCI 58.0%won by 28.1%JNP 29.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 28.1%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 58.0% of the vote here (+58.0%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 29.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.8% between them, down from 94.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.3% to 59.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,95,492
Turnout
59.6%
Valid votes
4,14,769
Margin
1,16,700
28.14%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCI- 1NAIK DEVARAY G.INCI · INCI2,40,43158.0%
- 2DESHPANDE RAGHUNATH VISHWANATHRAOJanata Party · JNP1,23,73129.8%
- 3KADAM BALSU PURSUINCU · INCU46,54911.2%
- 4SULEBHAVI ALLISAB BAWASABIndependent · IND4,0581.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNP swing
- +28.1%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 58.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 29.8%
- Turnout
- 64.9% → 59.6%