Constituency
79. Chickpet
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1999
KA-CHICKPET
BJP 39.3%won by 10.6%INC 28.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.8% to 10.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 67.9% of the vote between them, up from 54.7% — 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
52,567
Margin
5,589
10.63%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1P C MOHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,63639.3%
- 2D P SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC15,04728.6%
- 3P S PRAKASHJanata Dal (United) · JDU11,62822.1%
- 4THANGAVELUAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK1,8573.5%
- 5L KUPPASWAMYJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,7663.4%
- 6MUNIRATHNAMIndependent · IND5741.1%
- 7D MAHENDRANIndependent · IND4460.8%
- 8GUINNE HOTTE PAKSHA RANGASWAMYIndependent · IND2940.6%
- 9A S N GUPTHANationalist Congress Party · NCP2070.4%
- 10B SURESHRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD1120.2%
Since 1994
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +8.8%
- BJP share
- 28.3% → 39.3%
- INC share
- 26.4% → 28.6%
- Turnout
- — → —