Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Gulbarga #2GEN
Won
Qamarul Islam
JD Janata DalMargin
15,545 2.7 pp
votes
over Basawaraj Patil Sedam (BJP)
The contest
Electors12,04,474
Votes polled5,80,679
Turnout48.2%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors6.04 L50.1% of electorate
Female electors6.01 L49.9% of electorate
Sex ratio
995females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qamarul Islam | JD | 2,03,521 | 35.00% | |
| 2 | Basawaraj Patil Sedam | BJP | 1,87,976 | 32.40% | |
| 3 | Dr. B.G. Jawali | INC | 1,32,383 | 22.80% | |
| 4 | Shivayya Kusayya Guttedar | KCP | 15,444 | 2.70% | |
| 5 | Osman Ali | IND | 7,649 | 1.30% | |
| 6 | Venkat Rao | IND | 4,767 | 0.80% | |
| 7 | Ravidas Lalaji Gaikwad | IND | 4,236 | 0.70% | |
| 8 | Khateeb Mohamed Atharul Huque | IND | 1,764 | 0.30% | |
| 9 | Shamshoddin Patel Maheboob Patel | IND | 1,298 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | Gopalrao Mudbi | IND | 1,040 | 0.20% | |
| 11 | Omar Khan | IND | 1,017 | 0.20% | |
| 12 | Kashinath Ayyappa Shankar | IND | 955 | 0.20% | |
| 13 | Parameshwara Ganji | IND | 863 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Abdul Wahid Patel | IND | 840 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | Veershetty Baswanappa Imdapur | IND | 823 | 0.10% | |
| 16 | J.S. Konnur | IND | 680 | 0.10% | |
| 17 | Rauf Pasha Mazhari | IND | 652 | 0.10% | |
| 18 | Baswanth Rao Sheelawant | IND | 590 | 0.10% | |
| 19 | A Sabeen | IND | 444 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,737, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 566,942 · NOTA n/a · published 580,679 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
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- 2026-09-12