Mangalore #17GEN

KARNATAKA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

V.Dhananjaya Kumar

BJP Bharatiya Janta Party

Margin

6,907 1.0 pp

votes

over Janardhana Poojary (INC)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors9,71,958

Votes polled7,15,912

Turnout73.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.86 L50.0% of electorate

Female electors4.86 L50.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 999females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	V.Dhananjaya Kumar	BJP	3,41,362	47.70%
2	Janardhana Poojary	INC	3,34,455	46.70%
3	Mathanda Ramesh	JD	28,190	3.90%
4	J. Ramdas	KVP	2,952	0.40%
5	B. Ismail	PDP	1,056	0.10%
6	Nitte Vidyadhar Shetty	IND	882	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,015, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 708,897 · NOTA n/a · published 715,912 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998