Bangalore South #13GEN

KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Ananth Kumar

BJP Bharatiya Janta Party

Margin

1,80,047 22.2 pp

votes

over D.P.Sharma (INC)

The contest

11 candidate rows

Electors13,98,070

Votes polled8,10,135

Turnout58.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors7.44 L53.2% of electorate

Female electors6.54 L46.8% of electorate

Sex ratio 878females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

11 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Ananth Kumar	BJP	4,29,648	53.00%
2	D.P.Sharma	INC	2,49,601	30.80%
3	V.Somanna	JD	1,10,323	13.60%
4	B.S.Rajput	SP	2,688	0.30%
5	Guinness Hotte Paksha Rangaswamy	IND	1,649	0.20%
6	Dr.B.R.Manjunath	IND	1,032	0.10%
7	Francis	IND	915	0.10%
8	Abbas Ali Bohra	KVP	704	0.10%
9	S.V.Ramanna	RJD	592	0.10%
10	Shekhar	IND	562	0.10%
11	L.Nagaraj	IND	421	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,000, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 798,135 · NOTA n/a · published 810,135 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998