Constituency
182. Kanakapura
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-KANAKAPURA
INC 43.2%won by 2.8%BJP 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.6% to 43.2% of the vote here (+5.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.6% of the vote between them, up from 76.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.3% to 58.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
21,10,629
Turnout
58.5%
Valid votes
12,33,825
Margin
34,017
2.76%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1M.V.Chandrashekara MurthyIndian National Congress · INC5,32,91043.2%
- 2M. SrinivasBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,98,89340.4%
- 3H.D. KumaraswamyJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,62,44813.2%
- 4VeerappaIndependent · IND33,3222.7%
- 5N.BrahmanandaIndependent · IND6,2520.5%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +4.1%
- INC share
- 37.6% → 43.2%
- BJP share
- 39.0% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- 62.7% → 58.5%