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KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Kotrashetti Appayappa Karaveerappa

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

64,002 19.3 pp

votes

over Patil Paravatgouda Basangouda (BLD)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors6,29,378

Votes polled3,31,684

Turnout52.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.17 L50.4% of electorate

Female electors3.12 L49.6% of electorate

Sex ratio 984females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Kotrashetti Appayappa Karaveerappa	INC	1,78,331	53.80%
2	Patil Paravatgouda Basangouda	BLD	1,14,329	34.50%
3	Balasaheb Kulkarni	IND	14,706	4.40%
4	Mukundraj Ramchandra Bhokare	IND	9,366	2.80%
5	K. Vidyasagar	IND	1,991	0.60%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,961, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 318,723 · NOTA n/a · published 331,684 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977