Constituency
189. Udupi
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-UDUPI
BJP 50.8%won by 8.4%INC 42.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.4%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 37.0% to 50.8% of the vote here (+13.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.2% of the vote between them, up from 74.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.1% to 66.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,07,362
Turnout
66.7%
Valid votes
6,71,787
Margin
56,568
8.42%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1I.M.JAYARAMA SHETTYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,41,46650.8%
- 2OSCAR FERNANDESIndian National Congress · INC2,84,89842.4%
- 3MATTAR RATHNAKAR HEGDEJanata Dal · JD29,2384.4%
- 4DAYANANDA POOJARYKTVP · KTVP7,0091.0%
- 5RICHARD D'SOUZASamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP3,6960.6%
- 6M.P.SHRIDHARA BYNDOORIndependent · IND3,1050.5%
- 7B.P.BHASKERIndependent · IND2,3750.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +8.8%
- BJP share
- 37.0% → 50.8%
- INC share
- 37.4% → 42.4%
- Turnout
- 63.6% → 66.7%