Constituency
179. Shimoga
Community mirrorKarnataka · India Lok Sabha Election, 2019
IN-SHIMOGA
BJP 56.9%won by 17.4%JDS 39.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.2% to 17.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Janata Dal (Secular) (JDS).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.3% of the vote between them, up from 75.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.3% to 76.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
16,76,668
Turnout
76.6%
Valid votes
12,83,577
Margin
2,23,360
17.40%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1B.Y.RAGHAVENDRA.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,29,87256.9%
- 2S.MADHUBANGARAPPAJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS5,06,51239.5%
- 3GUDDAPPABahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,3500.6%
- 4NOTANOTA · NOTA6,8680.5%
- 5SHASHIKUMAR.S.GOWDAIndependent · IND6,8450.5%
- 6KRISHNA.K.PPOI · PPOI5,6530.4%
- 7S.UMESHA VARMAIndependent · IND4,4650.3%
- 8VENKATESH.RUPJP · UPJP4,0870.3%
- 9SHEKARA NAIKIndependent · IND3,9300.3%
- 10K.C.VINAY RAJAVATHIndependent · IND3,3170.3%
- 11MOHAMMED YUSUF KHANIndependent · IND1,5790.1%
- 12N.T.VIJAYAKUMARIndependent · IND1,5780.1%
- 13S.UMESHAPPAIndependent · IND1,5210.1%
Since 2014
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–JDS swing
- −15.0%
- BJP share
- 53.7% → 56.9%
- JDS share
- 21.3% → 39.5%
- Turnout
- 72.3% → 76.6%