Kanara #22SC

KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Kadam Balsu Pursu

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

34,394 8.8 pp

votes

over Ramakrishna Hegde (BLD)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors5,83,855

Votes polled3,91,234

Turnout67.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors2.97 L50.9% of electorate

Female electors2.86 L49.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 963females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Kadam Balsu Pursu	INC	1,95,974	50.10%
2	Ramakrishna Hegde	BLD	1,61,580	41.30%
3	B. V. Naik	IND	16,702	4.30%
4	Shankargouda Chanabasappa Patil	IND	4,700	1.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,278, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 378,956 · NOTA n/a · published 391,234 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977