Constituency
196. Belgaum
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BELGAUM
BJP 45.3%won by 13.4%INC 31.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 13.4%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 24.0% to 45.3% of the vote here (+21.3%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.1% of the vote between them, up from 59.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.3% to 60.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,01,792
Turnout
60.3%
Valid votes
7,24,214
Margin
97,057
13.40%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1BABAGOUDA RUDRAGOUDA PATILBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,27,89145.3%
- 2S.B.SIDNALIndian National Congress · INC2,30,83431.9%
- 3SHIVANAND H.KOUJALAGIJanata Dal · JD1,11,96115.5%
- 4BASAWANT IROJI PATILIndependent · IND44,8016.2%
- 5BASANAGOUDA NAGANAGOUDA GOUDARKTVP · KTVP4,4630.6%
- 6RUDRAPPA VEERAPPA MOKHASHIKarnataka Rajya Ryota Sangha · KRRS4,2640.6%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +4.2%
- BJP share
- 24.0% → 45.3%
- INC share
- 14.8% → 31.9%
- Turnout
- 55.0% → 60.3%