Constituency
183. Chikmagalur
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-CHIKMAGALUR
INC 42.8%won by 6.3%BJP 36.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.3% to 6.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 36.5% — it did not contest here in 1989.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.3% of the vote between them, up from 69.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 14.3% to 53.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,49,376
Turnout
53.5%
Valid votes
5,08,110
Margin
31,872
6.27%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1D.K. THARADEVI (W)Indian National Congress · INC2,17,30942.8%
- 2D.C. SRIKANTAPPABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,85,43736.5%
- 3B.K. SUNDARESHCommunist Party of India · CPI97,72719.2%
- 4K. NOOR AHAMEDIndependent · IND2,3880.5%
- 5NINGAPPAIndependent · IND2,1510.4%
- 6M.K. DAYANANDAPBI · PBI1,7770.3%
- 7P.C. JOHNIndependent · IND1,3210.3%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −41.3%
- INC share
- 47.6% → 42.8%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 36.5%
- Turnout
- 67.8% → 53.5%