Shimoga #21GEN

KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

A. R. Badarinarayan

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

74,836 18.3 pp

votes

over J. H. Patel (BLD)

The contest

2 candidate rows

Electors5,59,699

Votes polled4,09,137

Turnout73.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors2.95 L52.7% of electorate

Female electors2.65 L47.3% of electorate

Sex ratio 897females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

2 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	A. R. Badarinarayan	INC	2,36,065	57.70%
2	J. H. Patel	BLD	1,61,229	39.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,843, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 397,294 · NOTA n/a · published 409,137 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977