Constituency
191. Chikmagalur
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-CHIKMAGALUR
BJP 45.4%won by 4.2%INC 41.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.3% to 4.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.6% of the vote between them, up from 80.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,50,838
Turnout
68.0%
Valid votes
7,14,803
Margin
30,277
4.24%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1D.C.SrikantappaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,24,47045.4%
- 2D.M.Putte GowdaIndian National Congress · INC2,94,19341.2%
- 3D.L.Vasantha KumariJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS70,2929.8%
- 4U.Babu MogeraIndependent · IND21,3403.0%
- 5Venkata LaxmiAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK4,5080.6%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −3.1%
- BJP share
- 44.0% → 45.4%
- INC share
- 36.7% → 41.2%
- Turnout
- 68.4% → 68.0%