Constituency
180. Chikballapur
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-CHIKBALLAPUR
INC 44.4%won by 15.6%JD 28.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 15.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.2% between them, down from 86.3% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,44,669
Turnout
71.0%
Valid votes
8,12,329
Margin
1,27,055
15.64%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1R.L.JALAPPAIndian National Congress · INC3,60,76144.4%
- 2C.BYRE GOWDAJanata Dal · JD2,33,70628.8%
- 3JAYANTHILok Shakti · LS2,04,35925.2%
- 4N.SHIVANNABahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,0370.7%
- 5S.R.KRISHNAMARAJUAJBP · AJBP3,1040.4%
- 6KATAMMAIndependent · IND1,9530.2%
- 7P.N.PENCHALAIAHRJDP · RJDP1,7080.2%
- 8N.SRINIVASIndependent · IND7010.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JD swing
- +17.8%
- INC share
- 42.0% → 44.4%
- JD share
- 44.2% → 28.8%
- Turnout
- 69.3% → 71.0%