Constituency
191. Chikmagalur
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-CHIKMAGALUR
BJP 44.0%won by 7.3%INC 36.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 7.3%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 23.9% to 44.0% of the vote here (+20.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.7% of the vote between them, up from 61.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.7% to 68.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,50,631
Turnout
68.4%
Valid votes
7,18,572
Margin
52,496
7.31%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1SREEKANTAPPA D.C.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,16,13744.0%
- 2M.VEERAPPA MOILYIndian National Congress · INC2,63,64136.7%
- 3B.L.SHANKARJanata Dal · JD1,19,49216.6%
- 4H.M.RENUKARADHYACommunist Party of India · CPI13,0831.8%
- 5D.R.RAJUKTVP · KTVP4,6640.6%
- 6KESHAVA PRAPANNA SHARMAIndependent · IND8870.1%
- 7P.C.JOHNIndependent · IND6680.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +13.6%
- BJP share
- 23.9% → 44.0%
- INC share
- 30.2% → 36.7%
- Turnout
- 63.7% → 68.4%