Constituency
172. Bidar
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-BIDAR
BJP 48.0%won by 20.8%INC 27.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.0% to 20.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Dal (JD) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.6% to 60.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,00,598
Turnout
60.8%
Valid votes
7,29,679
Margin
1,52,033
20.84%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1Ramchandra VeerappaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,50,22148.0%
- 2Narasingarao SuryawanshiIndian National Congress · INC1,98,18827.2%
- 3Doddi ShankarraoJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,12,42315.4%
- 4Subhash Kallappa SikindrapurkarBahujan Samaj Party · BSP49,8026.8%
- 5Basappa KalwadiNationalist Congress Party · NCP19,0452.6%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −15.4%
- BJP share
- 53.2% → 48.0%
- INC share
- 17.0% → 27.2%
- Turnout
- 50.2% → 60.8%