Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Bangalore North #12GEN
Won
C.K.Jaffer Sharief
INC Indian National CongressMargin
72,447 7.5 pp
votes
over Dr. Jeevaraj Alva (LS)
The contest
Electors16,64,305
Votes polled9,61,717
Turnout57.8%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors8.71 L52.4% of electorate
Female electors7.93 L47.6% of electorate
Sex ratio
910females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C.K.Jaffer Sharief | INC | 3,99,582 | 41.50% | |
| 2 | Dr. Jeevaraj Alva | LS | 3,27,135 | 34.00% | |
| 3 | C. Narayana Swamy | JD | 2,06,396 | 21.50% | |
| 4 | R. Saravanan | JP | 4,959 | 0.50% | |
| 5 | J.Krishnappa | BSP | 2,784 | 0.30% | |
| 6 | Muniswamappa | IND | 1,258 | 0.10% | |
| 7 | Meer Layaq Hussain | IND | 1,247 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | Muhammed Yasin | IND | 1,216 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | A.S. Rajan | IND | 1,140 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | Abdul Moulana Shariff | IND | 950 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | S.M. Raju | IND | 471 | 0.00% | |
| 12 | Asif Ali Shah | IND | 408 | 0.00% | |
| 13 | B.N. Srinivas | IND | 378 | 0.00% | |
| 14 | Noor Ali Afjal | IND | 340 | 0.00% | |
| 15 | Babu Abel | IND | 308 | 0.00% | |
| 16 | Siva Channabasappa | IND | 275 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,870, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 948,847 · NOTA n/a · published 961,717 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998
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