Chikkodi #26GEN

KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

B Shankaranand

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

45,500 13.7 pp

votes

over Karale Laxman Bheemarao (BLD)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors5,71,003

Votes polled3,32,755

Turnout58.3%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors2.91 L50.9% of electorate

Female electors2.8 L49.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 964females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	B Shankaranand	INC	1,73,166	52.00%
2	Karale Laxman Bheemarao	BLD	1,27,666	38.40%
3	Thikpurle Bandopant Dhondirao	RPIK	21,391	6.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,532, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 322,223 · NOTA n/a · published 332,755 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977