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Chamarajanagar #15GEN
Won
A Siddaraju
JD Janata DalMargin
23,576 3.3 pp
votes
over L H Balakrishna (INC)
The contest
Electors10,57,750
Votes polled7,14,967
Turnout67.6%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.35 L50.6% of electorate
Female electors5.22 L49.4% of electorate
Sex ratio
976females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Siddaraju | JD | 2,14,745 | 30.00% | |
| 2 | L H Balakrishna | INC | 1,91,169 | 26.70% | |
| 3 | V Srinivasa Prasad | IND | 1,66,339 | 23.30% | |
| 4 | L Shivalingaiah | BJP | 94,373 | 13.20% | |
| 5 | M Puttaswamy | PSSS | 7,394 | 1.00% | |
| 6 | B Nagaraju | IND | 3,919 | 0.50% | |
| 7 | V Swamy | IND | 3,327 | 0.50% | |
| 8 | M Madaiah S/o Madaiah | KCVP | 2,147 | 0.30% | |
| 9 | H Prabhudeva | IND | 2,051 | 0.30% | |
| 10 | Suresha | IND | 1,432 | 0.20% | |
| 11 | A S Pal | IND | 1,376 | 0.20% | |
| 12 | Guruswamy | IND | 1,143 | 0.20% | |
| 13 | M Madaiah S/o Muddo Madaiah | IND | 1,092 | 0.20% | |
| 14 | N Nagaraj | IND | 1,012 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | Y Govindaraju | IND | 834 | 0.10% | |
| 16 | M Srikantaiah | IND | 774 | 0.10% | |
| 17 | G Kamparaju | IND | 744 | 0.10% | |
| 18 | B P Venkatesh | IND | 723 | 0.10% | |
| 19 | K Huchappa | IND | 679 | 0.10% | |
| 20 | Puttaswamy | IND | 638 | 0.10% | |
| 21 | S M Sadanandaiah | IND | 576 | 0.10% | |
| 22 | L Venkataramana | IND | 564 | 0.10% | |
| 23 | Venkatachalaiah | IND | 485 | 0.10% | |
| 24 | Hanumansingh M Y | IND | 289 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 17,142, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 697,825 · NOTA n/a · published 714,967 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
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