Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) on Dakshina Kanna

State 29 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 4 contested

CPIM never finished second here

Strike rate

0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 4 published candidatures

Best vote share5.20%in 1980

Worst vote share0.80%in 2014

Average vote share3.20% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1980

Last contested2014

Votes polled here79,351across all 4 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) vote share · a ringed point is a year they won this seat · a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1977, 1984, 1989, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2019, 2024 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

4 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2014	K Yadava Shetty	9,394	0.80%	4	Lost · 4th
2009	B.Madhava	18,328	1.80%	3	Lost · 3rd
1991	P. Ramchandra Rao	28,010	5.00%	3	Lost · 3rd
1980	Mahabaleshwara Bhat	23,619	5.20%	4	Lost · 4th

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janta Party Indian National Congress (I)Bharatiya Lok Dal Janta Party Independent Bahujan Samaj Party Janata Dal Janata Dal (Secular)Social Democratic Party Of India Indian National Congress (U)Janata Pary (JP)Jharkhand Party Kannada Nadu Party Karnataka Vikash Party Karunada Sevakara Party Aam Aadmi Party Janta Party (SECULAR)Peoples Democratic Party Akhil Bharatiya Manav Seva Das Uttama Prajaakeeya Party Hindustan Janta Party Karnataka Rashtra Samithi Hindustan Janata Party