Constituency
206. Dharwad North
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-DHARWAD-NORTH
BJP 47.5%won by 10.2%INC 37.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.8% to 10.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.8% between them, down from 90.1% — the field split more ways.
- 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
12,50,578
Turnout
64.8%
Valid votes
8,10,552
Margin
83,078
10.25%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1PRALHAD JOSHIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,85,08447.5%
- 2B S PATILIndian National Congress · INC3,02,00637.3%
- 3SHAGOTI CHIKKAPPA NINGAPPAJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS52,5726.5%
- 4JAGADGURU MATE MAHADEVIKNDP · KNDP27,6163.4%
- 5BADNI HEMARAJ ADIVEPPAIndependent · IND16,3012.0%
- 6BAKKAI LAXMAN CHANDRAPPABahujan Samaj Party · BSP12,9871.6%
- 7KUSUGAL CHANNA BASAPPA SHIDDABASAPPAIndependent · IND8,5821.1%
- 8PROF. ASHOK BADIGERSamajwadi Party · SP5,4040.7%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +4.5%
- BJP share
- 47.9% → 47.5%
- INC share
- 42.2% → 37.3%
- Turnout
- 64.2% → 64.8%