Constituency
179. Tumkur
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-TUMKUR
BJP 45.5%won by 9.9%INC 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 9.9%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 26.3% to 45.5% of the vote here (+19.2%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.1% of the vote between them, up from 54.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.5% to 66.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,80,851
Turnout
66.6%
Valid votes
7,19,371
Margin
71,187
9.90%
Candidates
4 contested · winner BJP- 1S.MALLIKARJUNAIAHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,27,31245.5%
- 2R.NARAYANAIndian National Congress · INC2,56,12535.6%
- 3BHASKARAPPA C.N.Janata Dal · JD1,32,66318.4%
- 4ABDUL SATTARKTVP · KTVP3,2710.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +6.2%
- BJP share
- 26.3% → 45.5%
- INC share
- 22.5% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- 64.0% → 66.6%