Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Kanakapura #11GEN
Won
M.V. Chandrasekhara Murthy
INCI Indian National Congress (I)Margin
1,28,504 26.4 pp
votes
over M.V. Rajasekharan (JP)
The contest
Electors7,85,062
Votes polled4,86,180
Turnout61.9%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.09 L52.0% of electorate
Female electors3.76 L48.0% of electorate
Sex ratio
921females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M.V. Chandrasekhara Murthy | INCI | 2,52,383 | 51.90% | |
| 2 | M.V. Rajasekharan | JP | 1,23,879 | 25.50% | |
| 3 | S. Kariyappa | INCU | 67,960 | 14.00% | |
| 4 | M.P. Krishnappa | JPS | 17,767 | 3.70% | |
| 5 | C. Mahadevaswamy | IND | 4,498 | 0.90% | |
| 6 | M. Krishanswamy | IND | 3,668 | 0.80% | |
| 7 | Arun Nagarkatti | IND | 834 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | R. Siddaiah | IND | 793 | 0.20% | |
| 9 | G.K. Siddaiah | IND | 563 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,835, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 472,345 · NOTA n/a · published 486,180 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-12