Constituency
204. Kanara
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-KANARA
BJP 51.9%won by 20.7%INC 31.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 20.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 46.4% to 51.9% of the vote here (+5.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.2% between them, down from 94.3% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,07,373
Turnout
69.1%
Valid votes
8,33,932
Margin
1,72,226
20.65%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1ANANTHKUMAR HEGDEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,33,17451.9%
- 2ALVA MARGARETIndian National Congress · INC2,60,94831.3%
- 3DEVARAYA NAIK GJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS69,4878.3%
- 4NEERNALLI RAMAKRISHNJanahitha Paksha · JP24,2132.9%
- 5JAYANT MUKUND TINAIKARKNDP · KNDP19,8402.4%
- 6MUTAGUPPI LAXMESH PUTTAIndependent · IND17,5132.1%
- 7AJEYA MADHAV SHANBHAGIndependent · IND8,7571.1%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +22.1%
- BJP share
- 46.4% → 51.9%
- INC share
- 47.8% → 31.3%
- Turnout
- 67.6% → 69.1%