Constituency
183. Bidar
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-BIDAR
BJP 21.9%won by 1.7%INC 20.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.8% to 1.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 26.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 42.2% between them, down from 75.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,72,985
Turnout
59.4%
Valid votes
14,27,575
Margin
23,621
1.65%
Candidates
14 contested · winner BJP- 1RAMCHANDRA VEERAPPABharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,12,83821.9%
- 2NARSINGRAO HULLA SURYAWANSHIIndian National Congress · INC2,89,21720.3%
- 3Narsing Halla SuryawanshiIndian National Congress · INC1,96,91713.8%
- 4Basawraj Ramchandra VeerappaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,83,44712.9%
- 5MOTIRAM CHOWDHARYJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,73,29112.1%
- 6Babu Honna NaikJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,67,12811.7%
- 7Chandrakanth GaddgiBahujan Samaj Party · BSP36,0132.5%
- 8SURENDRA NARENDRA DANDEKNDP · KNDP25,9081.8%
- 9DHANAJI BHIMA LAMANIRSPS · RSPS14,5381.0%
- 10VithalIndependent · IND7,8900.6%
- 11Ganapathrao KamleAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB7,0540.5%
- 12Jeevan Singh GroverKNP · KNP5,7000.4%
- 13Viling Bahram GurujiIndependent · IND4,0410.3%
- 14Jayanandrao EkambakerIndependent · IND3,5930.3%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −19.2%
- BJP share
- 48.0% → 21.9%
- INC share
- 27.2% → 20.3%
- Turnout
- 60.8% → 59.4%