Constituency
175. Dharwad
Community mirrorKarnataka Assembly Election, 1999
KA-DHARWAD
BJP 47.2%won by 1.0%INC 46.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.8% to 1.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.4% of the vote between them, up from 54.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 988 votes (0.98%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
1,00,995
Margin
988
0.98%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1BELLAD CHANDRAKANT GURAPPABharatiya Janata Party · BJP47,63847.2%
- 2SR MOREYIndian National Congress · INC46,65046.2%
- 3JAVALI IQBAL ANJUM MAGDUM HUSEINJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS6,0516.0%
- 4PRAKSH SANNINGAMMANAVAR ADVOCATESamajwadi Party · SP2960.3%
- 5MENASINKAI ARUN RUDRAPPAIndependent · IND2340.2%
- 6SB MAGALADIndependent · IND1260.1%
Since 1994
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −10.8%
- BJP share
- 33.0% → 47.2%
- INC share
- 21.2% → 46.2%
- Turnout
- — → —