Constituency
71. Kolar Gold Fields
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1985
KA-KOLAR-GOLD-FIELDS
CPM 51.0%won by 28.4%IND 22.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 28.4%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 32.8% to 51.0% of the vote here (+18.2%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Independent (IND).
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
55,513
Margin
15,780
28.43%
Candidates
10 contested · winner CPM- 1T. S. MANICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM28,32551.0%
- 2M. BACKTHAVACHALAMIndependent · IND12,54522.6%
- 3C. M. ARUMUGHAMIndependent · IND9,42117.0%
- 4S. RAJAGOPALIndian National Congress · INC3,9777.2%
- 5K. NADARAJANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8301.5%
- 6S. DINAKARANIndependent · IND1530.3%
- 7B. DEENADHAYALIndependent · IND870.2%
- 8K. MOORTHYIndependent · IND840.2%
- 9N. KUMARIndependent · IND550.1%
- 10CHANDRAGANDHI, M.Independent · IND360.1%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–IND swing
- +22.2%
- CPM share
- 32.8% → 51.0%
- IND share
- 26.6% → 22.6%
- Turnout
- — → —