Constituency
184. Gulbarga
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-GULBARGA
INC 37.8%won by 6.9%BJP 30.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.4% to 6.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.6% between them, down from 85.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
14,39,006
Turnout
57.5%
Valid votes
8,27,894
Margin
57,471
6.94%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1IQBAL AHMED SARADGIIndian National Congress · INC3,12,60137.8%
- 2BASAWARAJ PATIL SEDAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,55,13030.8%
- 3VITHAL HEROORJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,89,10022.8%
- 4SURYAKANT NIMBALKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP26,7243.2%
- 5SANGANNAIndependent · IND15,2121.8%
- 6ARUN KUMAR CHANDRASHEKARA PATILKNDP · KNDP7,1570.9%
- 7BHAGAVANREDDY BIndependent · IND6,7490.8%
- 8HAMID PASHA SARMASTMUL · MUL4,2680.5%
- 9BASAWANTH RAO REVANSIDDAPPA SHEELWANTHAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB3,9000.5%
- 10SANDESH C BANDAKUSYP · USYP3,6710.4%
- 11UMESH HAVANOORSamajwadi Party · SP3,3820.4%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −2.5%
- INC share
- 47.6% → 37.8%
- BJP share
- 38.2% → 30.8%
- Turnout
- 57.8% → 57.5%