Constituency
195. Dharwad North
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-DHARWAD-NORTH
BJP 47.9%won by 5.8%INC 42.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.1% to 5.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.1% of the vote between them, up from 81.2% — 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
11,21,461
Turnout
64.2%
Valid votes
7,19,939
Margin
41,602
5.78%
Candidates
3 contested · winner BJP- 1Vijay SankeshwarBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,45,19747.9%
- 2Veeranna A.MattikattiIndian National Congress · INC3,03,59542.2%
- 3Kalebudde Ismailsab Abdul GafarJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS71,1479.9%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −13.3%
- BJP share
- 50.2% → 47.9%
- INC share
- 31.1% → 42.2%
- Turnout
- 62.4% → 64.2%