Bangalore South #13GEN

KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Ananth Kumar

BJP Bharatiya Janta Party

Margin

21,968 3.0 pp

votes

over Varalakshmi Gundurao (INC)

The contest

35 candidate rows

Electors13,00,498

Votes polled7,27,220

Turnout55.9%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.86 L52.7% of electorate

Female electors6.15 L47.3% of electorate

Sex ratio 897females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

35 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Ananth Kumar	BJP	2,51,235	34.50%
2	Varalakshmi Gundurao	INC	2,29,267	31.50%
3	M Raghupathy	JD	1,81,826	25.00%
4	Vatal Nagraj	KCVP	28,989	4.00%
5	S. Siva Kumar	IND	5,128	0.70%
6	K Venkatagiri Gowda	IND	2,514	0.30%
7	Mohamed Saleem	IND	2,074	0.30%
8	Munibyrappa	BNP	1,137	0.20%
9	B R Manjunath	IND	1,114	0.20%
10	Umesh Babu Patel	AIICT	1,007	0.10%
11	M Radhakrishnan	IND	995	0.10%
12	Francis	IND	972	0.10%
13	Mohandev Alva	IND	831	0.10%
14	V. Annapoornamma	IND	735	0.10%
15	H R Sripadarao	KP	648	0.10%
16	B R Shankar	IND	625	0.10%
17	V Sekar	IND	579	0.10%
18	G K Mallaiah	IND	526	0.10%
19	Laxminarayana S Bathada	IND	523	0.10%
20	Sarala Kripalani	PHK	510	0.10%
21	Agavali Sahab	IND	471	0.10%
22	Guinness Hottepaksha Rangaswamy	IND	468	0.10%
23	R.M. Muralidhara	IND	441	0.10%
24	M Muddaiah	IND	435	0.10%
25	M Krishna Rao	IND	405	0.10%
26	M R Srinivasan	UIDC	374	0.10%
27	Krishnoji Rao Pawar	IND	360	0.00%
28	Srinivasa Murthy K V	IND	319	0.00%
29	U S Mehata	IND	299	0.00%
29	H R Srinivasan	IND	299	0.00%
31	S M Swaminath	IND	264	0.00%
32	M. Shantha Veeraiah	IND	261	0.00%
33	R B Guttal	IND	225	0.00%
34	Padma Chari	IND	224	0.00%
35	Tukaram Y Katwa	IND	129	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,011, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 716,209 · NOTA n/a · published 727,220 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996