Constituency
178. Chitradurga
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-CHITRADURGA
JDU 44.6%won by 1.3%INC 43.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Dal (United) (JDU), which now leads by 1.3%.
- JDU vote shareJDU went from 0.0% to 44.6% of the vote here (+44.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.8% of the vote between them, up from 78.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.5% to 70.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,77,238
Turnout
70.7%
Valid votes
8,31,807
Margin
11,178
1.34%
Candidates
3 contested · winner JDU- 1Shashi KumarJanata Dal (United) · JDU3,70,79344.6%
- 2C.P.MudalagiriyappaIndian National Congress · INC3,59,61543.2%
- 3T.J. MariyappaJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,01,39912.2%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JDUflipped
- JDU–INC swing
- +44.2%
- JDU share
- 0.0% → 44.6%
- INC share
- 42.9% → 43.2%
- Turnout
- 65.1% → 70.7%