Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Bellary #5SC
Won
R.Y. Ghorpade
INCI Indian National Congress (I)Margin
1,36,037 35.8 pp
votes
over M.Y. Ghorpade (INCU)
The contest
Electors7,01,437
Votes polled3,80,495
Turnout54.3%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors3.46 L49.4% of electorate
Female electors3.55 L50.6% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,026females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 14,917, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 365,578 · NOTA n/a · published 380,495 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980
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- Election Commission of India
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- 2026-09-12