Raichur #3GEN

KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

B.V. Desai

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

1,29,050 46.4 pp

votes

over Raja Pid Naik (INCU)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors6,79,284

Votes polled2,78,149

Turnout41.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.36 L49.5% of electorate

Female electors3.43 L50.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,022females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	B.V. Desai	INCI	1,75,888	63.20%
2	Raja Pid Naik	INCU	46,838	16.80%
3	M.S. Patil	JP	40,110	14.40%
4	Earappa Huligeppa	IND	2,901	1.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,412, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 265,737 · NOTA n/a · published 278,149 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980