EElectionLens
Constituency

178. Chitradurga

Community mirror

Karnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996

IN-CHITRADURGA

JD 35.7%won by 2.7%INC 32.9%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Dal (JD), which now leads by 2.7%.

  • JD vote shareJD went from 0.0% to 35.7% of the vote here (+35.7%).
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.6% between them, down from 90.7% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout rose 7.3% to 63.1%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
11,18,685
Turnout
63.1%
Valid votes
7,05,498
Margin
19,382
2.75%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
JDflipped
JDINC swing
+55.2%
JD share
0.0% 35.7%
INC share
52.5% 32.9%
Turnout
55.8% 63.1%