Constituency
193. Kanara
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-KANARA
BJP 42.9%won by 8.7%JD 34.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 29.3% to 42.9% of the vote here (+13.6%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Janata Dal (JD).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.2% of the vote between them, up from 64.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.4% to 60.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,68,507
Turnout
60.3%
Valid votes
6,43,821
Margin
55,896
8.68%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1ANANT D. HEGDEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,76,31142.9%
- 2PRAMOD HEGDEJanata Dal · JD2,20,41534.2%
- 3RAMA NARAYAN NAIKIndian National Congress · INC88,60913.8%
- 4NAIK N MKCP · KCP43,6946.8%
- 5NAIK BALAKRISHNA VENKANNAIndependent · IND7,4661.2%
- 6KHARGEKAR ANNANDRAO KIndependent · IND2,2110.3%
- 7GOANKAR RAJMAHENDRAIndependent · IND2,1680.3%
- 8NAIK MALLU BHIKAROIndependent · IND1,5270.2%
- 9GANAPATI DEVANNA NAIKIndependent · IND1,4200.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–JD swing
- +5.1%
- BJP share
- 29.3% → 42.9%
- JD share
- 25.7% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- 49.8% → 60.3%