Chikballapur #9ST

KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

M. V. Krishnappa

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

48,474 11.9 pp

votes

over G. Narayana Gowda (BLD)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors6,27,230

Votes polled4,08,854

Turnout65.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.21 L51.1% of electorate

Female electors3.07 L48.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 956females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	M. V. Krishnappa	INC	2,07,589	50.80%
2	G. Narayana Gowda	BLD	1,59,115	38.90%
3	B. Ramappa	IND	24,801	6.10%
4	B. V. S. R. N. Kaushik	IND	4,404	1.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,945, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 395,909 · NOTA n/a · published 408,854 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977