Constituency
179. Tumkur
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-TUMKUR
INC 41.2%won by 8.3%BJP 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.6% to 41.2% of the vote here (+5.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.2% between them, down from 81.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.6% to 71.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,86,936
Turnout
71.2%
Valid votes
7,73,846
Margin
63,937
8.26%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1G.S.BasavarajIndian National Congress · INC3,18,92241.2%
- 2S.MallikarjunaiahBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,54,98533.0%
- 3C.N.BhasakarappaJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,90,29524.6%
- 4V.NagarajuBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9,6441.2%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +18.2%
- INC share
- 35.6% → 41.2%
- BJP share
- 45.5% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- 66.6% → 71.2%