Chikmagalur #20GEN

KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

D.M. Puttegowda

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

1,64,136 42.7 pp

votes

over K.M. Thammaiah (JP)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors6,30,138

Votes polled3,84,830

Turnout61.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.19 L50.6% of electorate

Female electors3.11 L49.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 976females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	D.M. Puttegowda	INCI	2,39,522	62.20%
2	K.M. Thammaiah	JP	75,386	19.60%
3	C.M.S. Sastry	INCU	56,259	14.60%
4	M.K. Dayananda	IND	2,385	0.60%
5	Hottepaksha Rangaswamy Alias Swamy Ranganathananda Puri	IND	1,901	0.50%
6	B.S. Halappa	IND	1,563	0.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,814, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 377,016 · NOTA n/a · published 384,830 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980