Election
Constituency

57. Tumkur

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Karnataka Assembly Election, 1999

KA-TUMKUR

BJP 47.0%won by 6.6%INC 40.3%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.4% to 6.6%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.3% of the vote between them, up from 55.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,29,275
Margin
8,588
6.64%

Candidates

6 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1S. SHIVANNABharatiya Janata Party · BJP60,69947.0%
  2. 2S. SHAFI AHMEDIndian National Congress · INC52,11140.3%
  3. 3T.N. KRISNNAPPAJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS14,68611.4%
  4. 4C.H. MARIDEVARUIndependent · IND1,0650.8%
  5. 5T.N. NAVEEN KUMAR (SETTY)Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha · KCVP4660.4%
  6. 6ABDUL HAFIZ (SALLEM)Independent · IND2480.2%

Since 1994

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–INC swing
−0.7%
BJP share
31.6% → 47.0%
INC share
24.3% → 40.3%
Turnout
— → —
56. Koratagere58. Kunigal
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