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Mangalore #17GEN
Won
V. Dhananjaya Kumar
BJP Bharatiya Janta PartyMargin
35,005 6.3 pp
votes
over Janardhana Poojari (INC)
The contest
Electors9,37,957
Votes polled5,59,417
Turnout59.6%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.82 L51.4% of electorate
Female electors4.56 L48.6% of electorate
Sex ratio
944females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | V. Dhananjaya Kumar | BJP | 2,74,700 | 49.10% | |
| 2 | Janardhana Poojari | INC | 2,39,695 | 42.80% | |
| 3 | P. Ramchandra Rao | CPIM | 28,010 | 5.00% | |
| 4 | H. Subbayya Shetty | JP | 3,753 | 0.70% | |
| 5 | C.B. Belliappa | IND | 2,184 | 0.40% | |
| 6 | Melville Pinto | ABMSD | 2,045 | 0.40% | |
| 7 | B.E. Sheshadri | IND | 567 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | M.N. Govindrajulu | IND | 522 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,941, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 551,476 · NOTA n/a · published 559,417 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1991
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- Election Commission of India
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- 2026-09-12