Constituency
136. Sakleshpur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1999
KA-SAKLESHPUR
BJP 30.8%won by 1.3%INC 29.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.8% to 1.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.3% between them, down from 69.8% — the field split more ways.
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
1,02,872
Margin
1,344
1.31%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1B.B.SHIVAPPABharatiya Janata Party · BJP31,70230.8%
- 2B.R.GURUDEVIndian National Congress · INC30,35829.5%
- 3H.M.VISWANATHJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS29,68228.9%
- 4B.C.SHANKARACHARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,8635.7%
- 5J.D.SOMAPPAIndependent · IND4,6214.5%
- 6THAMMAYANNAIndependent · IND6460.6%
Since 1994
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −9.5%
- BJP share
- 40.3% → 30.8%
- INC share
- 29.5% → 29.5%
- Turnout
- — → —