Constituency
180. Mangalore
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-MANGALORE
BJP 49.8%won by 6.3%INC 43.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 6.3%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 29.5% to 49.8% of the vote here (+20.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.3% of the vote between them, up from 73.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 8.9% to 58.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,37,957
Turnout
58.8%
Valid votes
5,51,476
Margin
35,005
6.35%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1V. DHANANJAYA KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,74,70049.8%
- 2JANARDHANA POOJARIIndian National Congress · INC2,39,69543.5%
- 3P. RAMCHANDRA RAOCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM28,0105.1%
- 4H. SUBBAYYA SHETTYJanahitha Paksha · JP3,7530.7%
- 5C.B. BELLIAPPAIndependent · IND2,1840.4%
- 6MELVILLE PINTOMSD · MSD2,0450.4%
- 7B.E. SHESHADRIIndependent · IND5670.1%
- 8M.N. GOVINDRAJULUIndependent · IND5220.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +20.9%
- BJP share
- 29.5% → 49.8%
- INC share
- 44.1% → 43.5%
- Turnout
- 67.7% → 58.8%