Constituency
154. Chikmagalur
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1999
KA-CHIKMAGALUR
INC 30.9%won by 1.2%BJP 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 1.3% to 1.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 60.5% of the vote between them, up from 49.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
83,311
Margin
982
1.18%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1CR SAGEER AHMEDIndian National Congress · INC25,70730.9%
- 2CT RAVIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP24,72529.7%
- 3SL BHOJEGOWDAIndependent · IND13,38416.1%
- 4IB SHANKARJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS7,7039.2%
- 5HM RENUKARADHYACommunist Party of India · CPI6,2767.5%
- 6HH DEVARAJJanata Dal (United) · JDU3,4324.1%
- 7SULTAN AHMEDBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,7442.1%
- 8MARIYAMMAAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK3400.4%
Since 1994
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −4.9%
- INC share
- 25.4% → 30.9%
- BJP share
- 19.3% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —