Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Shimoga #21GEN
Won
S.T. Quadri
INCI Indian National Congress (I)Margin
1,51,798 33.8 pp
votes
over D.H. Shankara Murthy (JP)
The contest
Electors6,97,266
Votes polled4,48,457
Turnout64.3%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors3.71 L53.2% of electorate
Female electors3.26 L46.8% of electorate
Sex ratio
880females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S.T. Quadri | INCI | 2,46,328 | 54.90% | |
| 2 | D.H. Shankara Murthy | JP | 94,530 | 21.10% | |
| 3 | A.R. Badrinarayan | INCU | 78,048 | 17.40% | |
| 4 | Kanandur Lingappa | JPS | 10,005 | 2.20% | |
| 5 | M. Lingaiah | IND | 1,534 | 0.30% | |
| 6 | Hulikere Chandrashekar | IND | 1,288 | 0.30% | |
| 7 | Bhoopalam Chandrasekharaiah | IND | 1,189 | 0.30% | |
| 8 | S.M. Onkara Murthy | IND | 878 | 0.20% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 14,657, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 433,800 · NOTA n/a · published 448,457 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
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- 2026-09-12